Kurt Eggers was a German writer, poet, songwriter, and playwright with close links to the Nazi Party.
11 Facts About Kurt Eggers
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Kurt Eggers served as both a member of a propaganda company and as a Waffen-SS soldier at the rank of Mann in World War II, he was killed while serving in a tank regiment on the Eastern Front by the Red Army.
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Kurt Eggers was born in 1905 in Berlin, the son of a bank clerk.
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Kurt Eggers studied Sanskrit, archaeology, philosophy, and theology in Rostock, Berlin and Gottingen.
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Kurt Eggers was particularly interested in the German Reformation and the revolutionary Ulrich von Hutten.
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Kurt Eggers joined the Corps Vandalia Rostock, a student group, in 1927.
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Kurt Eggers's verses were widely used in Nazi Party ceremonies and events.
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Kurt Eggers was the editor-in-chief of the "Das Schwarze Korps", the official newspaper of the SS.
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Kurt Eggers was a member of an SS propaganda company.
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Kurt Eggers's death was marked by a memorial service on 26 September 1943 in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin.
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Kurt Eggers had four children by his second wife, Traute Kaiser, whose father was a pastor.