The man who said "no" to Hitler and lived to tell that after the war.

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Below this text is an article about the man, Dietrich Von Saucken (1892-1980), the man who refused to take commands from Gauleiter and SS-Obergruppenführer Albert Forster (1902-1952) and told that thing to Hitler. Many men have died when they did that thing. And the remarkable thing is, that Von Saucken was not executed after that. Those things happened in the surrounded Berlin and this action might save the life of Von Saucken because Russians hated him very much. That man had many medals from the Eastern Front, and Russian beat him very roughly, and when he returned to the home, that thing might felt very bad, because those batons left injuries, what caused pain rest of his life.

And the thing what might cause also sympathy for this man was that Soviets tortured him, and that might make the image or how this could think, that this man was very hated in the East. The thing, when Von Saucken refused to act against Adolph Hitler, was that he should take orders from Gauleiter Forster, who was actually civilian in uniform. Forster was hanging after the Second World War because he served high rank in Nazi government, and his rule was not very tough, but he was responsible for the actions in Stutthof concentration and death camp, and also he sends Jews to death. That caused the reason for hanging.

But there is one very interesting detail of that man. He has exactly the same family name, what Hitler's psychiatrist Dr. Edmund Robert Forster (1878-1933), whose family name could also be Foster, but when the First World War began, that man might change it as the more German form "Forster". If this man was English, that could mean troubles in Germany during the First World War. In 1918 this man worked in Pasewal mental hospital and worked with Adolph Hitler because he had hysterical blindness.

Sometimes there are stories, that Hitler would be blinded by mustard gas, but the reason for sending that man to the hospital was psychical collapse and blindness. When we are thinking about the Gauleiter Forster and Edmund Forster, could they be members of the same family? And if Forster was murdered in 1933 by orders of the Gestapo or Hitler himself, that would mean, that Forster might deep inside him hate Hitler.

Of course, he was a boot kisser, and probably a loyal member of the Nazis, and one thing is left without answers, and this is, "why Hitler left Von Saucken to live?". Why didn't his fanatic followers shoot that man, who was refused to follow his orders? And in the Second World War were death penalties given even for smaller reasons than saying straight against the face of Hitler that the superior officer was a person, who would not be wanted to give orders.

Sources:

http://www.jmarkpowell.com/the-man-who-said-no-to-hitler-and-lived-to-tell-about-it/

Dietrich Von Saucken

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_von_Saucken

Albert Forster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Forster

Edmund Forster (or Foster)

https://www.dredmundforster.info/1-edmund-forster-adolf-hitler

Edmund Forster ( or Foster)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50988842/edmund-robert-foster