Werner Rauch was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1919 to ethnic German parents. His father had anti-Semitic beliefs. Werner was insanely jealous of a Jewish schoolmate who happened to be the son of a former colonel in the Austro-Hungarian Army and a hero of World War I. Constantly outdone by this Jewish high achiever, Aaron Dreher, Werner joins the Nazi Party at an early age. Werner is thrilled by Hitler's annexation of Austria. Upon his graduation from secondary school in 1938, he joins the Wehrmacht and serves in an armored division in the invasion of Poland winning an Iron Cross 2nd Class. He joins the Waffen SS at first opportunity, and is chosen for SS Officer Candidate School. Selected to serve in an Einsatzgruppe in the initial months of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, he organizes, commands, and participates in the slaughter of hundreds of helpless Lithuanian Jews. He later serves out the war in the SS combat arm, later in an SS armored division, always distinguishing himself for bravery in action. Wounded fighting in the campaign in Poland, and badly wounded three more times, he recovers to participate in the Battle of Kursk, the Battle of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. Sought for murdering US GIs at Malmedy he evades arrest and accepts an advisory position in the armored forces of Egypt where he remains a die hard, Jew hating, Nazi until his death in 1973.
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