__NOTOC__ Günther Brandt (1 October 1898 – 4 July 1973) was a German anthropologist and political activist during the

Nazi era Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

. Following World War I, Brandt joined the "'' Marinebrigade Ehrhardt''" and fought with the Freikorps in the Spartacist uprising of the

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in Berlin, and in the Silesian Uprisings against the

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and Polish Silesians of Upper Silesia. In 1921 he joined the Nazi Party and was involved in the assassination of the

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Walther Rathenau in June 1922. He was sentenced to four years imprisonment in 1925. He was released early and studied medicine from 1926 to 1932 in Kiel, Berlin and Munich. Brandt was also an SS officer with the final rank of Obersturmbannführer. During World War II, he served in the

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and was a recipient of the

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Awards

* Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (8 December 1917)Dörr 1995, p. 76. *

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2nd Class (1 October 1919) * Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (9 January 1940) & 1st Class (30 August 1940) * German Cross in Gold on 26 November 1942 as ''

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'' of the Reserves in the 12. U-Jagd-Flottille *

on 23 December 1943 as ''Korvettenkapitän'' of the Reserves and chief of the 21. U-Jagd-FlottilleScherzer 2007, p. 239.

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