Early life Edit

Rudel was born on 2 July 1916, in Konradswaldau, in Prussia. He was the third child of Lutheran minister Johannes Rudel. As a boy, Rudel was a poor scholar, but a very keen sportsman. Rudel attended the humanities oriented Gymnasium, in Lauban. He joined the Hitler Youth in 1933. After graduating with Abitur in 1936, he participated in the compulsory Reich Labour Service (RAD). Following the labour service, Rudel joined the Luftwaffe in the same year and began his military career as an air reconnaissance pilot.

World War II Edit

Summary of military career Edit

Legacy Edit

Rudel remained popular with the German far-right after his death, especially with the German People's Union, the DVU, and its leader Gerhard Frey. Frey and the DVU established the Ehrenbund Rudel - Gemeinschaft zum Schutz der Frontsoldaten (Honour federation Rudel - Community for the protection of the front soldiers) in 1983, during a memorial service for Rudel.[74][75] British holocaust denier David Irving, who delivered a memorial speech on the death of Rudel,[76] was given the Hans-Ulrich-Rudel-Award by Frey in June 1985.[77]

Publications Edit

Wir Frontsoldaten zur Wiederaufrüstung [ We Frontline Soldiers and Our Opinion on the Rearmament of Germany ] (in German). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Dürer-Verlag. 1951. OCLC 603587732.

Dolchstoß oder Legende? [ Daggerthrust or Legend? ]. Schriftenreihe zur Gegenwart, Nr. 4 (in German). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Dürer-Verlag. 1951. OCLC 23669099.

Es geht um das Reich [ It is about the Reich ]. Schriftenreihe zur Gegenwart, Nr. 6 (in German). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Dürer-Verlag. 1952. OCLC 48951914.

Trotzdem [ Nevertheless ] (in German). Göttingen, Germany: Schütz. 1966 [1949]. OCLC 2362892.

Stuka Pilot . Translated by Hudson, Lynton. New York: Ballantine Books. 1958. OCLC 2362892.

Hans-Ulrich Rudel—Aufzeichnungen eines Stukafliegers—Mein Kriegstagebuch [ Hans-Ulrich Rudel—Notes by a Dive Bomber Pilot—My War Diary ] (in German). Kiel, Germany: ARNDT-Verlag. 2001. ISBN 978-3-88741-039-1.

Mein Leben in Krieg und Frieden [My life in war and peace] (in German). Rosenheim, Germany: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft. 1994. OCLC 34396545.

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