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Heinz Schweizer (18 July 1908 Berlin – 5 June 1946 Biesenthal) was a German officer in the Luftwaffe of the Wehrmacht, last in the rank of Hauptmann. From about 1940, Schweizer belonged to a house demolition and bomb disposal command (Sprengkommando) in Düsseldorf-Kalkum. For his work, Schweizer was stylized by the Nazis as the hero of bomb disposal saving life and described by the propaganda press as a "man with nerves of steel", but near the end of World War II, he saved around 100 to 150 political prisoners in forced labour from certain death interned at a detention subcamp near Düsseldorf.

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  • Heinz Schweizer (* 18. Juli 1908 in Berlin; † 5. Juni 1946 in Biesenthal) war ein deutscher Offizier der Luftwaffe der Wehrmacht, zuletzt im Dienstgrad Hauptmann. Schweizer gehörte ab etwa 1940 zu einem in Düsseldorf stationierten Bombenräumkommando, wo er 1945 etwa 100 bis 150 Zwangsarbeiter durch Lügen gegenüber seinen Vorgesetzten vor dem sicheren Tod bewahrte. (de)
  • Heinz Schweizer (18 July 1908 Berlin – 5 June 1946 Biesenthal) was a German officer in the Luftwaffe of the Wehrmacht, last in the rank of Hauptmann. From about 1940, Schweizer belonged to a house demolition and bomb disposal command (Sprengkommando) in Düsseldorf-Kalkum. For his work, Schweizer was stylized by the Nazis as the hero of bomb disposal saving life and described by the propaganda press as a "man with nerves of steel", but near the end of World War II, he saved around 100 to 150 political prisoners in forced labour from certain death interned at a detention subcamp near Düsseldorf. (en)
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  • Heinz Schweizer (* 18. Juli 1908 in Berlin; † 5. Juni 1946 in Biesenthal) war ein deutscher Offizier der Luftwaffe der Wehrmacht, zuletzt im Dienstgrad Hauptmann. Schweizer gehörte ab etwa 1940 zu einem in Düsseldorf stationierten Bombenräumkommando, wo er 1945 etwa 100 bis 150 Zwangsarbeiter durch Lügen gegenüber seinen Vorgesetzten vor dem sicheren Tod bewahrte. (de)
  • Heinz Schweizer (18 July 1908 Berlin – 5 June 1946 Biesenthal) was a German officer in the Luftwaffe of the Wehrmacht, last in the rank of Hauptmann. From about 1940, Schweizer belonged to a house demolition and bomb disposal command (Sprengkommando) in Düsseldorf-Kalkum. For his work, Schweizer was stylized by the Nazis as the hero of bomb disposal saving life and described by the propaganda press as a "man with nerves of steel", but near the end of World War II, he saved around 100 to 150 political prisoners in forced labour from certain death interned at a detention subcamp near Düsseldorf. (en)
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