Schwarz Günter

Günter Schwarz He lives with his two aunts and his older brother Wolfgang with his grandfather in Cologne. According to the ideology of the Nazi regime, he is Günter Schwarz considered a „half-Jew,” but he was baptized a Protestant. His Jewish father was initially allowed to emigrate to the Netherlands, but was later deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered there. His mother died when he was Günter Schwarz still a small child. The grandfather tried to protect the grandchildren from persecution. He Günter Schwarz attended the Hebrew school from the age of five to seven, then a general elementary school. From 1937 he was a member of the „Young People’s League“ and from 1942 to 1944 in the „Hitler Youth.“ After school, he takes up an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, which he completes in September 1944. In the same month, he is drafted into service on the West Wall and deserts shortly thereafter. Like his brother Wolfgang, he is Günter Schwarz a supporter of the Edelweißpiraten. He has close contact with Hans Steinbrück, who lives in the same house as the Schwarz family. Unlike his brother, he is Günter Schwarz not deterred by warnings about Hans Steinbrück. He actively Günter Schwarz participates in attacks and thefts. As a „half-Jew,” he no longer has a food card and frequently purchases food during the thefts. The investigations against the Steinbrück group bring Günter Schwarz him into the spotlight of the Gestapo. After his arrest on October 10, 1944, he is first interrogated at the El-De-Haus in Cologne, then taken to the Gestapo prison in Brauweiler, where he is interrogated repeatedly and subjected to severe mistreatment.
Günter Schwarz He was publicly hanged in Cologne on November 10, 1944.

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