Semyon Konstantinovich Hitler Biography

Contacts Semyon Hitler - Hero of the Great Patriotic War, History, sometimes, does not cease to surprise us with his special irony. For example, what associations do you have the surname "Hitler"? Most likely, something is extremely negative: the main enemy of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War and the entire Russian people. At the same time, one of the heroes of the war, who fought for Russia, bore exactly the same surname!

And not only Hitler fought for the Soviet Union! If you delve into archival documents, which today, in general, are available to everyone, then among the brave fighters of the Red Army you can find almost the entire composition of the leadership of Nazi Germany. Naturally, these are just namesakes, but the situation from this does not become less amazing. But the “humor” of history knows no borders, because Semyon Konstantinovich, among other things, was also a Jew!

Semen Konstantinovich was born in Ukraine in the year. Having reached adulthood just by the beginning of the war, he went to the army. He was a machine gunner at the front. Therefore, his detachment was one of the first to meet the Nazis in June On the eighth day of the battle, Semyon Hitler was wounded, but continued to fight, because he could not quit his machine gun, located at an altitude of more than meters, which would be too tasty prey for the Germans.

Even being surrounded by ending cartridges, Semyon continued the battle and eventually was able to retreat to other units of the Red Army, where he continued resistance. Subsequently, Semyon Hitler participated in the battles for Odessa and Sevastopol. It was in Sevastopol Semyon Hitler and died in one of the battles in the year. The award in the year Semyon Hitler was presented for the “Medal for Courage” award.

However, if we compare what he did with other exploits of the Red Army soldiers and their awards, we can conclude that in reality Semyon Hitler deserved more - the Order. It is unlikely that he was only alerted by medals because of his surname. The point is most likely that at the beginning of the war, in principle, all soldiers were awarded very restrained.

If Semyon had not died in a year and would have reached the end of the war, then, most likely, it would be the order. Not everything is in order with documents to draw up award documents even on a medal, and not on the order, it turned out to be not so simple. Apparently, the Soviet command did not rise to assign the medal to Hitler and therefore, in the award documents, Semyon Konstantinovich, the last letter of his last name was fixed on “B”.

It was on purpose that it was done or specifically - the story is silent. It remains only to guess and assume. The fate of the relatives of Semyon Hitler is natural that Semyon Hitler was not one, and his whole family wore this "amazing" surname. However, after the war, the relatives of Semyon Hitler took exactly the name that accidentally or specially appeared in award documents - “Gitlev”.

With this surname, they immigrated to Israel, where they still talk about their amazing great -grandfather.