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Frank served in the Imperial German Army during the First World War. He and his two brothers were drafted for military service in August 1915 and after training at a depot in Mainz, he served in an artillery unit on the Western Front in which most soldiers were mathematicians and surveyors.
May 9, 2024 · Otto Frank was a German-born merchant best known as the father of Anne Frank, whose diary, published after her death in 1945, became world famous. Frank, decorated for bravery as a German officer in World War I, escaped with his family from the Nazi anti-Jewish persecutions in Germany before the.
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Sep 12, 2019 · Jewish businessman Otto Frank hid his family during the Holocaust and published daughter Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl after his release from Auschwitz.
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The First World War initially seemed to pass Otto by, but he enlisted in 1915. He was part of a ‘Lichtmesstrupp', a unit that analysed where enemy artillery fire came from. When the war ended, Otto had been promoted to lieutenant and was decorated. After his return, he joined the family bank.
Auschwitz is liberated: Otto Frank is free. On 17 January 1945, the Auschwitz camp command started emptying Auschwitz, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Monowitz, and the sub-camps. The SS wanted to erase the traces of the crimes it had committed there. The Soviet army had broken through the German lines five days earlier and was drawing near.
After the outbreak of World War I, Otto worked in a horseshoe factory before joining the army. In August 1915 , he joined the Third Regiment Fussartillerie in Mainz. After his training, his unit ended up in the area of Bapaume.
After the war, Otto Frank was stateless, destitute, and had nowhere to live. Returning to Germany was out of the question and, without a passport, he could not travel to his family in Basel. He lived with Miep and Jan Gies in Amsterdam.
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