{"id":20119,"date":"2012-10-28T07:14:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T14:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=20119"},"modified":"2023-03-02T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T22:07:56","slug":"through-hell-for-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/through-hell-for-hitler\/","title":{"rendered":"Through Hell for Hitler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/through-hell-for-hitler\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/HitlerYouth.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a> Henry Friedrich Carl Metelmann, was born on 25 December 1922, the son of a socialist railway worker in Hamburg, Germany. As a lively and active boy, he joined the scouts, and later his group was merged with the Hitler youth. With Hitler&#8217;s rise he was seduced by the fascist movement, and the experiences and privileges it bestowed<\/p>\n<p>He fought with Von Paulus&#8217; Nazi 6th army at Stalingrad. Through experience he came to reject fascism and capitalist imperialism. He settled in Britain, becoming a communist, a railway worker, groundsman, writer and peace activist. He died on 24 July 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Metelmann was keen to talk about his experiences, especially to the young, and equated the invasion of the Soviet Union by an oil-hungry Nazi Germany with the Anglo-American assault on oil-rich Iraq in 2003. He remained a member of the Communist party of Great Britain until its break-up in 1991.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wP-JUBAQMPI\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/wP-JUBAQMPI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/wP-JUBAQMPI<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalkar.org\/issues\/contents\/may2003\/metel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henry Metelmann&#8217;s personal account of his experiences in the German Panzers at Stalingrad<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Metelmann\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henry Metelmann<br \/>\nFrom Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Through-Hell-Hitler-First-hand-Wehrmacht\/dp\/1862272085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Through Hell for Hitler<\/a><br \/>\nA Dramatic First-hand Account of Fighting on the Eastern Front with the Wehrmacht [Paperback]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Friedrich Carl Metelmann, was born on 25 December 1922, the son of a socialist railway worker in Hamburg, Germany. As a lively and active boy, he joined the scouts, and later his group was merged with the Hitler youth. With Hitler&#8217;s rise he was seduced by the fascist movement, and the experiences and privileges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1152,1149,1153,1150,1151,703],"class_list":["post-20119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","tag-crimea","tag-hitler","tag-lebensraum","tag-nazi","tag-sport","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27046,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20119\/revisions\/27046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}