Ner E. Gun

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Nerin Emrullah Gun , also Nerin Emrullah Gün and other spellings of names (born February 22, 1920 in Rome , † December 5, 1987 ), was a Turkish-American journalist.

Life

When the Dachau concentration camp was liberated on April 29, 1945, one of the prisoners liberated by the US soldiers was Emrullah Gün, a Turkish citizen. "Emrullah Nermin [sic!] Gün" was registered as a newcomer on April 13, 1945 in the Dachau concentration camp .

There is no reliable information about his activities before 1944. "Dr. Gün ”worked in the press department of the Turkish embassy in Budapest in 1944, and he may have delivered reports to Swiss newspapers that contradicted the interests of the Nazi German Reich . A message from the Gestapo to the prison in Feldkirch , where Gün was imprisoned in April 1945, says: Dr. Gün Nerin Emrullah, a 24-year-old Turkish citizen, works in the press department of the Turkish embassy in Budapest. He was arrested according to the arrest warrant issued by the Austrian Federal Police with the number IV 3 A 147 221 because he is one of the most dangerous anti-German journalists who has caused a stir in the media with his articles. Feldkirch April 12, 1945 . How Gün got into police custody in Vorarlberg Feldkirch, which lies on the Swiss border, is not recorded.

Gün emigrated after the Second World War in the United States and called itself Nerin E. Gun. He visited Dachau again. Gun wrote a report on the Kennedy assassination attempt in 1964 after the assassination of the American President John F. Kennedy , which was printed in Great Britain and also appeared in several translations by renowned European publishers. His book was not noticed in the wave of speculation about the background to the attack. The CIA subsequently dealt with Gun, suspecting that he was involved in the assassination attempt and suspected him of membership in a Communist Party and of espionage activities in Europe.

Gun published a book in 1966, twenty years after his liberation from Dachau concentration camp imprisonment, which is essentially based on his experiences in Dachau. The book has been translated into several languages. Since the book also describes the massacre that has been researched as the Dachau massacre , to which part of the guards fell victim after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, Gun's book was included in historical research as an eyewitness report. Historical research contradicts some of Gun's assumptions that are rumored by revisionists. Siegfriedkap-Hardenberg published the German translation by Blick und Bild . In the book, Gun also describes the process of transporting prominent hostage prisoners and their liberation in South Tyrol .

In 1968 Gun deciphered the remaining fragments of Eva Braun's diaries for printing and published them in various languages as part of his biography of Eva Braun . For the research he stayed in the vicinity of the Braun family in Ruhpolding . According to Heike B. Görtemaker, the biography shows a number of unsubstantiated assumptions, but according to 2010 it was "the only serious biography." Gun also planned to write a biography about Rudolf Hess , for which he sought out Ilse Hess .

In the late 1970s, Gun published collections of documents on French politics during the German occupation in World War II.

Nerin Gun had been married to Joyce Willey (1928-2001) since 1952, and they lived in New York.

Writings and selected translations

  • Red roses from Texas . London: Frederick Muller, 1964
    • Le rose rosse del Texas . Mondadori 1964 (it)
    • Les roses rouges de Dallas , R. Julliard, 1964 (fr)
  • The day of the Americans . New York, Fleet Pub. Corp. 1966
    • The hour of the Americans . Transferred from the American by Dorit Adenauer-Brans. Blick und Bild Verlag, Velbert / Kettwig 1968
  • Eva Braun: Hitler's mistress . New York: Meredith Press 1968
    • Eva Braun: la donna di Hitler . Longanesi, 1970 (it)
    • L'amour maudit d'Hitler et d'Eva Braun . Laffont, 1968 (fr)
    • Eva Braun-Hitler. Life and destiny . With 108 recordings, certificates and documents. Blick und Bild Verlag, Velbert / Kettwig 1968
  • Les secrets des archives américaines: Pétain, Laval, De Gaulle . Paris: Albin Michel, 1979 (462 pages)
  • Les secrets des archives américaines / 2. Ni de Gaulle ni Thorez . Paris: Michel, 1983 (346 pages)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heike B. Görtemaker: Eva Braun , 2010, p. 295, fn. 18
  2. ↑ https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=110812&relPageId=2
  3. ↑ a b c d A Turkish journalist in a concentration camp , short biography of Nerin Emrullah Gün, in: Türkische Gemeinde in Österreich, published 1995, accessed on July 10, 2013
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Heike B. Görtemaker: Eva Braun , 2010, pp. 20f
  5. ^ Prisoners in the Führer: Nice weather . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1967, p. 54/55 ( online report on the liberation of special prisoners and clan prisoners).
  6. ↑ Heike B. Görtemaker: Eva Braun , 2010, p. 293, fn. 7
personal data
SURNAME Gun, Nerin E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gun, Nerin Emrullah (full name); Gün, Nerin Emrullah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1987