Ernst Torgler - Torgler's Son Kurt Torgler

Torgler's Son Kurt Torgler

Torgler's son, Kurt Torgler (born 1913 - died 1943) was a witness on behalf of his father at the 1933 counter-trial in London that was organized by the German Communist Party concerning the Reichstag fire. In 1935 he went to the Soviet Union. There he was arrested by the NKVD in 1937 and sent to a labour camp. After the Hitler-Stalin-Pact in 1940, he was handed to the German government. He became a translator in the army and died on the Eastern Front.

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