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Kurt Barkhausen

Kurt Barkhausen (16 March 1923-4 April 2016) was a German Waffen-SS soldier who served in the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf during World War II.

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Kurt Barkhausen was born in Germany in 1923, and he joined the NSDAP and Waffen-SS during World War II. He claimed that the Waffen-SS valued the purity of a person, what they wanted from life, the health of the family, their marital status, the number of children they had, how their ancestors lived, what their ancestors believed in, and what had made real Germans of them. He also blamed the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles on creating the environment which necessitated the rise of Nazism in Germany. Barkhausen was an unrepentant Nazi until his death in 2016, denying the Holocaust.

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