Erna Flegel

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Erna Flegel (born July 11, 1911 in Kiel , † February 16, 2006 in Mölln , Schleswig-Holstein ) was a German nurse . At the end of April 1945 she worked in the emergency room in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. She was arrested by the Red Army in the Reich Chancellery on May 2, 1945 .

Life

From January 1943 until the end of the Second World War , also during the Battle of Berlin , she served as a nurse in Hitler's entourage . She worked with Werner Haase in hospital of Humboldt University . At the end of April 1945 she was assigned to the Reich Chancellery. She worked in the basement of the Reich Chancellery above the front bunker and the Führerbunker .

During her time in the Führerbunker, she made friends with Magda Goebbels and sometimes helped out as a nanny for the Goebbels children . Once, together with Haase and Ernst-Günther Schenck, she met Hitler, who campaigned for the treatment of the wounded.

Together with Haase, Helmut Kunz and Liselotte Chervinska, a nurse, she waited until they were arrested by the Red Army on May 2nd . Flegel was quickly released and said that she was treated well by the Soviet troops. In November 1945 she was interrogated again by the Americans and then disappeared into anonymity until the documents about her interrogation were released in 1977. Then the media took interest in her again and again. In the 2004 film Downfall , she was portrayed by Jelisaveta Mikhailovna Boyarskaya .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Teacher, Steven (2006). The Reich Chancellery and Führerbunker Complex , McFarland. Jefferson, NC. Pp. 117, 119;
  2. ^ Vinogradov, VK (2005). Hitler's Death: Russia's Last Great Secret from the Files of the KGB . Chaucer Press. P. 62; 1-904449-13-1
  3. ↑ Vinogradov, VK, et al. (2005), p. 62.
  4. ↑ 'Hitler's nurse' breaks silence . May 2, 2005 ( bbc.co.uk [accessed July 28, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Guardian Staff: Interview: Erna Flegel . In: The Guardian . May 2, 2005, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed July 28, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Flegel, Erna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nurse
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2006
Place of death Mölln , Schleswig-Holstein