For a few hours on July 20, 1944, Nazi Germany’s fate hung on a 32-year-old Wehrmacht major named Otto Ernst Remer. On that day, believing that their plot to kill Hitler had succeeded,* the mutineers ...
With remarkable speed, the Bonn government cracked down on the Neo-Nazi Socialist Reich Party (TIME, May 21). A West German court last week found its führer, rabble-rousing Otto Ernst Remer, guilty of ...
Otto Ernst Remer, who was promoted from major to major general for his key role in crushing the 1944 plot against Hitler, and who was the Jew-baiting co-leader of the neo-Nazi Socialist Reich Party ...