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You step forward to volunteer with a one-lung, one-arm wound-what do you do?

You step forward to volunteer with a one-lung, one-arm wound-what do you do?

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A one-lung, one-armed veteran volunteers for war, rises to become Berlin’s early Nazi organizer, and dies years later in Sachsenhausen-what do you do?

You step forward to volunteer with a one-lung, one-arm wound-what do you do?

In this episode, we follow the life of Ernst Schlange from a Prussian estate to the trenches and into early Nazi politics, tracing the choices that propelled him into leadership and the circumstances of his death at Sachsenhausen. What do we make of a man who helped build a movement, lost power within it, and died under Soviet detention?

Person: Ernst Schlange
Date of death: 28 February 1947
Birth: 1 September 1888
Location: Sachsenhausen (Soviet special camp within former Nazi camp)
Membership number: 4837

- Lost his left hand in a pre-1914 hunting accident and still volunteered for World War I.
- Wounded near Stepj, Galicia on 1 June 1915, losing his right arm and right lung; awarded Iron Cross First and Second Class.
- Studied law (Halle, Greifswald), earned a doctorate, worked at a bank, and passed Prussia’s highest legal exam before the war.
- Joined Deutschnationale Volkspartei in 1919, moved to the Deutschsoziale Partei in 1922, and helped build local chapters in three Berlin districts.
- Appointed Gauleiter of Gau Groß-Berlin in March 1925, with Hitler ratifying the role after rejoining the Nazi Party on 28 February 1925.

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