1. Hugo Johannes Blaschke was a German dental surgeon notable for being Adolf Hitler's personal dentist from 1933 to April 1945 and for being the chief dentist on the staff of Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler.
10 Facts About Hugo Blaschke
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Hugo Blaschke trained as a dental surgeon in London and opened his own practice in late 1911.
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Hugo Blaschke then joined the Nazi Party on 1 February 1931.
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Hugo Blaschke joined the Schutzstaffel on 1 May 1935 and was appointed chief dentist of the SS on 31 August 1943.
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Hugo Blaschke was promoted to the rank of SS-Brigadefuhrer on 9 November 1944.
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In 1945, as the end of Nazi Germany drew near, Hugo Blaschke accompanied Hitler to the Reich Chancellery in Berlin and the Fuhrerbunker.
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Hugo Blaschke was arrested by US Army troops in Austria on 20 May 1945.
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Hugo Blaschke was interrogated by the Americans after the war about Hitler's dental treatment, as part of the effort to identify Hitler's remains.
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Hugo Blaschke reconstructed the dental records of Martin Bormann from memory, and these were later used to identify Bormann's skeletal remains, which were discovered in Berlin in 1972.
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Hugo Blaschke was buried in St Peter Cemetery in Nuremberg.