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Rupprecht Gerngroß (21 June 1915 - 25 February 1996)〔(Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte - Rupprecht Gerngroß ) (in German) accessed: 27 June 2008〕 was a German lawyer and leader of the ''Freiheitsaktion Bayern'', the ''FAB'', (English:''Bavarian freedom initiative''), a group involved in an attempt to overthrow the Nazis in Munich in April 1945. == Life == Rupprecht Gerngroß was born in Shanghai in 1915, to German parents who both originated from Munich. He returned with his family to Germany after the First World War and was educated in Munich. He served as a volunteer in the ''Wehrmacht'' during the Second World War, was promoted to officer and was wounded. Recovering in a hospital in Poland, he witnessed the execution of a group of Jewish people, an event which turned his opinion against the Nazis.〔(Interview with Felix Heidenberger ) (in German) Bayerischer Rundfunk, published: 8 May 2008, accessed: 26 June 2008〕 Upon his return he was put in charge of an interpreter company in the Bavarian capital. Within this unit he found a group of people who were unconvinced of the Nazi ideals and ideas and he managed to arm his officially unarmed company.〔(Memories of the White Rose ) accessed: 26 June 2008〕〔(George J. Wittenstein - Lecture Series ) accessed: 30 June 2008〕 From 1942, this company formed the heart of the ''Freiheitsaktion Bayern'', but it also involved a number of civilians. All up, the resistance movement had a strength of about 400 people.〔(Der Mord an Pfarrer Grimm - Die Freiheitsaktion Bayern ) (in German) accessed: 27 June 2008〕 Jürgen Wittenstein, a friend of the members of the Weiße Rose, collected weapons for the movement from wounded soldiers at the Italian front, where he had volunteered to serve in order to escape the Gestapo.〔〔 During the war, he managed to complete his law degree at the University of Erlangen in 1942.〔 In the final days of the war, when the order was issued to defend Munich to the last man by blowing up all bridges and using the Munich trams to form barricades, he decided to resist this order to prevent a complete destruction of the infrastructure of the city. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rupprecht Gerngroß」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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