Semyon Konstantinovich Hitler (last name on the award sheet is Hitlev [1] ; 1922 , Orinin - July 3, 1942 , Sevastopol ) - Red Army soldier , participant of the Great Patriotic War , awarded the medal "For Courage" (September 9, 1941) [2] .
| Semyon Konstantinovich Hitler | |
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| Date of Birth | 1922 |
| Place of Birth | Orinin , Podolsk province , Ukrainian SSR (now Khmelnitsky region , Ukraine ) |
| Date of death | July 3, 1942 |
| Place of death | Sevastopol , RSFSR , USSR |
| Affiliation |  the USSR |
| Type of army | fortified troops |
| Years of service | 1940-1942 |
| Rank |  |
| Part | Tiraspol fortified area |
| Commanded | machine gunner of the 73rd separate machine gun battalion |
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War
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| Awards and prizes |  |
Biography
Born in 1922 in the city of Orinin (now Khmelnitsky region , Ukraine ) in a Jewish family. Member of the Komsomol , in the Red Army since 1940 [3] .
Drafted by the Orininsky district military registration and enlistment office to the front. Member of the defense of Odessa, was a gunner gunner 73rd separate machine gun battalion Tiraspol fortified area . On August 18, 1941, he supported the offensive of a rifle platoon during an attack to a height of 174.5 in the battles for Odessa, and destroyed it from the machine gun of the enemy for 8 days. He was wounded, but did not cease fire. After at a distance of 10 km crawled through the ranks of the enemy. September 9, 1941 he was awarded the medal "For Courage", although he presented himself to the less honorable medal "For Military Merit" [3] .
July 3, 1942 Semyon Konstantinovich died in the battles for Sevastopol [4] .
Simon Hitler is one of the few soldiers of the Red Army - participants in the Great Patriotic War, who were the namesakes of the leaders of the top of the Third Reich . Thus, according to the “ Feat of the People ” database, the Soviet awards of the Great Patriotic War marked more than 45 people with the surname Bormann, 18 people with the surname Hess, 34 people with the surname Goering, 71 people with the surname Mueller. The awarded family survived the occupation and left for Israel after the war, changing their surname to Hitlev [5] .
With the filing of the family, a legend of the following content became popular: the commandant Orinina discovered the Hitler family, however, after checking their documents, he was afraid to send a family bearing the name of the Fuhrer to the ghetto [6] [7] .
Notes
- ↑ TsAMO , f. 33 , op. 682524 , d. 20 , l. 342
- ↑ Award sheet (Russian)
- ↑ 1 2 Red Army Hitler (Russian)
- ↑ DEDICATED: To the Jews of Russia of the XX century who took an active part in military operations and state building (Russian)
- ↑ Red Army Hitler, the history of our country (Russian)
- ↑ How machine gunner Hitler killed one hundred Germans Archived copy of September 11, 2018 on the Wayback Machine (Russian)
- ↑ History in photographs. Red Army Hitler (Russian)