Heinrich Ernst Wachler

Richard Frank Krummel Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and ...

: ''Nietzsche und der deutsche Geist.'' Bd. 1, unter Mitw. v. Evelyn S. Krummel, 2., verb. u. erg. Aufl., Berlin/New York 1998, p. 164. (* 18 February 1871 in Breslau; † September 1945 in

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) was a völkisch-neopagan and

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writer, dramatist and publicist. Wachler's mother had been of Jewish origin but had converted to Protestantism in her youth. There is some confusion about the death of Ernst Wachler. Neopagan web pages and print-on-demand books make it appear as if he died as the victim of the Nazis in a concentration camp. Neo-völkisch writers allege that he was sent to KZ

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where he perished. The German historian

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(

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) mentions that there are various speculations about Wachler's death, but that, according to two of Wachler's close relatives, Wachler died in the summer of 1945, after the war as an imprisoned German civilian, in the

Theresienstadt concentration camp Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ( German-occupied Czechoslovakia). Theresienstadt served as a waystation to the extermination c ...

from

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.Puschner 1996: 793

Notes

Literature

, 1996: ''Ernst Wachler''. and ''Deutsche Reformbühne und völkische Kultstätte. Ernst Wachler und das Harzer Bergtheater''. In: ''Handbuch zur "Völkischen Bewegung" 1871 - 1918''. Ed. by Uwe Puschner, Walter Schmitz and Justus H. Ulbricht. Munich and others

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