Josef Schulz myth
The Josef Schulz (sometimes "Josef Schultz" written) is the myth of a Wehrmacht soldier named Joseph Schulz, 1941 at the Second World War, during the occupation of Yugoslavia to have been shot by the German army by his own comrades after he allegedly refused to shoot hostages .
The myth is widespread in the former Yugoslavia. Two films based on the myth were shot in Yugoslavia and deal with this alleged heroic deed, and in 2009 a street in Smederevska Palanka in Serbia was named after Josef Schulz. There is a Josef Schulz monument in Kragujevac . As early as the 1970s, however, archival reviews revealed that the day before the hostage was officially recorded as the day Josef Schulz was reported to have died. The story can therefore be called a myth. The case was first widely discussed in Germany in connection with the so-called Wehrmacht Exhibition.
Alleged facts
Josef Schulz is said to have been a Wehrmacht private from Wuppertal who, as a member of the 714th Infantry Division , refused to take part in the shooting of 16 partisans on July 20, 1941 in Smederevska Palanka in Yugoslavia . As a result, he is said to have been shot himself. In fact, Private Schulz was killed one day earlier in a partisan attack.
Evidence for the alleged shooting for insubordination is often a photo that shows a row of men with blindfolds, in front of whom three Wehrmacht soldiers can be seen: two of them have rifles, the third one at least has no weapon and he is one Piece in front of the other two, towards hostages. This photo is supposed to show Josef Schulz how he went to the people to be shot after refusing to give orders.
See also
literature
- Michael Martens : Hero Quest . The story of the soldier who didn't want to kill. Paul Zsolnay Verlag , July 25, 2011, p. 400 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nemac odbio since strelja partizan. www.vesti-online.com, November 3, 2009
- ↑ Rüdiger Rossig: "You want to believe the story". In: the daily newspaper . July 27, 2011, accessed July 27, 2011 .
- ↑ Bethke: The image of the German resistance against Hitler in (ex-) Yugoslavia (pdf; 139 kB) Society for Serbian-German Co-operation. Pp. 10-12. 2002. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 28, 2011 .; also published in Karl Bethke: The picture of the German resistance against Hitler in the former Yugoslavia . In: Gerd R. Ueberschär (Hrsg.): The German resistance against Hitler . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2002, ISBN 9783534131464 , pp. 111-122.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Illustration of the photo with a mounted arrow, which should point to Josef Schulz (some scrolling necessary)
