Leonhard Helmschrott
Leonhard Helmschrott (born 5 June 1921 ( Unterthürheim); died 28 October 2011 (Berlin) was a German journalist and politician. He was a founding member of the National Committee for a Free Germany (NKFD / '' Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland''). Between 1948 and 1989 he was the chief editor of the Bauernecho (''Farmer's Echo''). Life Early life, military service Helmschrott was born the son of a small farmer in a small hamlet on the western edge of Bavaria, not too far from Augsburg. He left school in 1935 and worked on the family farm. In February 1941 he was drafted into the army. He was sent to the eastern front where in September 1942, having already reached the rank of corporal, he was taken prisoner of war. He promptly agreed to cooperate with his Red army captors and was very soon agitating with fly-leaflets (to be dropped from light planes flying over German lines) and loud speakers in trenches on the Soviet-German frontline. However, he was soon taken away f ...
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