Feldgrau.net

Hello Feldgrau!

Nicht mehr anonym: http://www.doew.at/php/gestapo/

I am sorry, this website/database is only available in german language, this database contains more than 3.900 records and photos (assortment) of austrian people, taken by the Gestapo in Wien.

Even if you do not read the german language, this online-database is very impressive.

Leopold Blazek, Wien
Geboren am 14. Oktober 1896

Der Maschinenarbeiter Leopold Blazek gehörte einer kommunistischen Betriebszelle in den Städtischen Gaswerken Leopoldau an. Er wurde am 27. 1. 1942 festgenommen und am 7. 10. 1943 vom Volksgerichtshof wegen "Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat" zu 3 Jahren Zuchthaus verurteilt. Blazek befand sich bis zur Befreiung im Zuchthaus Straubing (Deutschland) in Haft.

I have searched the database for some hours, the nowadays so called mugshots, and the personal records of these people tell a story, a very important internet-project.

Please, take some time, to look at the photos at all, someone here at the Feldgrau Forum surely is able to translate the documents...


Michael

Hello Michael!

Thanks for yet another important link. What tragedies... these photos and (very short) bios really gripped me. "Nicht mehr anonym..." Sometimes (probably not often enough!) it makes me think about why I spend so much time and effort reading and researching about people like the Ritterkreuzträger and such? I don't mean that either one of these shall/must exclude the other but still... Perspectives...


Thank you Michael!

Krollspell

Thank you, Dok!

I think, it is very important nowadays, to also look at the "other side of the medal" too...

As a young person I was not interested about such topics, admiring the heroes so much, and wasting so much time to do this.

You know, what I mean, sure.

Thanks!


Michael

There is one open question to me, on the photos one can see the words STAPO LEITSTELLE WIEN.

Was the internal designation STAPO, and not GESTAPO ?

Wiki: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo


Michael

Hello Michael

Good site and so many sad stories FOR WHAT!? Shame on us humans.

I went to the main page @ http://www.doew.at - loads of info!!!! surfed the pages and found this:

AVA, Bürckel-Akten, 2000
DÖW E 20.530

Gestern früh langte von der Gestapo, Außenstelle Wiener Neustadt bei dem Bezirkskommando in Amstetten folgende Weisung ein:

"Über Auftrag der Stapo-Leitstelle Wien sind alle führenden Funktionäre der kommunistischen, marxistischen und legitimistischen Bewegung, weiters der Vaterländischen Front und des Sturmkorps, unbeschadet sonstiger Weisungen, sofort festzunehmen. Das bei den Hausdurchsuchungen vorgefundene Material ist zu beschlagnahmen. Die Verhafteten dürfen ohne Einwilligung des Chefs der Sicherheitspolizei nicht enthaftet werden." /.../

Your German is much better than mine but it somehow explains the close ties between the two STAPO's

Link to quote: http://www.doew.at/thema/thema_alt/wuv/ ... riffe.html

Enjoy... (if that's the proper word to use here?)

waleed

Link to quote: http://www.doew.at/thema/thema_alt/wuv/ ... riffe.html

Thank you for this link, Waleed!

I am looking at these very touching and sad documents now for over 2 hours, what to say, shocking...

http://www.doew.at A very informative and important website, more than well done!

Regards


Michael

P.S. "enthaftet", what a terrible phrase, very typical for the regime...