Paul Sommer
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Paul Sommer was a Danish fighter pilot who fought for the Luftwaffe during World War Two.
Another Paul Sommer was a German champion fencer of the 1930s. Sommer was Jewish and might have died in the Holocaust but for the intervention of top SS officer Reinhard Heydrich, himself a fencer who admired Sommer's skills. Heydrich arranged for Sommer to be permitted to emigrate to the U.S.
[edit] References
- http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?alpha=s&id=127
- Heydrich: The Face of Evil by Mario R. Dederichs, tr. by Geoffrey Brooks (Greenhill Books 2006)
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