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Hans Leyers (March 5, 1896 – February 2, 1981) was a German Army Generalmajor who, in his last assignment during World War II, served as general representative of the Ministry of Armaments and War Production of Nazi Germany in the Italian Social Republic.
- A Young Man from Milan
- Smuggling Refugees Through The Alps
- "The Observer"
- From Observation to Action
If you had to pick a time to be a teenager in Milan, 1943 would have been the worst of choices. In June, as my dad was nearing his 17thbirthday, the British began an intensive six-month bombing campaign. It left a third of the city’s population homeless (about 400,000). My father and his younger brother (my Uncle Mimmo) narrowly escaped death one n...
It was then that many Italians rebelled and began hiding and protecting their Jewish-Italian friends. They formed an “Underground Railroad,” a network of escape routes similar to the one that was developed to save American slaves before and during America’s Civil War. One of the network’s routes went through Casa Alpina, where the Lella brothers we...
Through a series of extraordinary circumstances, including his wounding during an Allied bombing raid, my father was ordered back to Milan to convalesce for two weeks. Then, with a little help from family and the abilities to speak French and drive a car, he landed a position as the personal driver and confidant for one of Hitler’s most mysterious ...
At midnight on April 24th, 1945, upon orders from the Resistance, my father single-handedly arrested General Hans Leyers and delivered him to the American Command, led by 5th U.S. Army Major Frank Knebel. For the next five days, he became Major Knebel’s personal guide and translator, at last discarding his uniform and the Nazi swastika. My father w...
Hans Leyers (born March 5, 1896 in Düsseldorf, † February 2, 1981 in Eschweiler) was a German Wehrmacht officer, most recently in the rank of major general. In his last assignment as General Plenipotentiary of the Reich War Ministry for Armaments and War Production in Italy, Leyers was one of the highest representatives of the German Empire ...
Jan 26, 2019 · I am fascinated by this General Hans Leyers, who oversaw the slave labor camps in Italy where millions of Italian citizen/slaves perished under the harshest of conditions. The Nazis called it Vernichtung durch Arbeit- extermination by labor, part of Hitler’s Final Solution.
He glanced in the mirror at the general and realized he hated Leyers. He was a Nazi slave driver. He wants Italy destroyed, and then rebuilt in Hitler’s image. He works for Hitler’s architect, for God’s sake. Part of Pino wanted to find a secluded spot, get out, pull his gun, and kill the man.
But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders.
He glanced in the mirror at the general and realized he hated Leyers. He was a Nazi slave driver. He wants Italy destroyed, and then rebuilt in Hitler’s image. He works for Hitler’s architect, for God’s sake. Part of Pino wanted to find a secluded spot, get out, pull his gun, and kill the man.
