Armann, Hugo (Wehrmacht)

Date of birth:: August 11th, 1917 (near Bad Kissingen, Germany)
Date of death:: May 1989
Nationality:: German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

Armann was a member of the Hitler Youth from 1934 to mid-July 1935; he did not join the NSDAP.

Armann was employed in 1940 at the prisoner of war administration in France. In February 1941, he received a marching order, which finally led him to Warsaw, where he was confronted with the conditions in the ghetto. In 1941 he was mainly stationed in Minsk and then lay sick in the hospital for several months. From February 1942 he was employed in Baranawitschy in the local writing room at the train station. He issued "place stamps" for the soldiers' holiday vouchers and used his position to obtain benefits for his Jewish aid workers.

As the sergeant-major of a unit for the organization of home holiday transports in Baranawitschy, he saved Jewish people in 1942/43 by hiding six workers in his house and, after a few days, made it possible to escape with the help of Polish partisans. He also equipped her with ten rifles and ammunition. According to an estimate, "indirect and direct assistance" saved Armanns 35 to 40 Jews. For these acts of rescue, he was honored in September 1988 as a righteous among the peoples of Yad Vashem.

Hugo Armann stayed in Baranawitschy until mid-1944, when he was transferred to the Western Front. In France he was wounded and experienced the end of the war in the hospital.

After the war Hugo Armann lived and worked as a teacher and headmaster in Detter in the Bad Kissingen district.

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