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Alfred Novotny


Born
in Vienna, Austria
April 01, 1924

Died
February 19, 2010


Alfred Novotny was born in Vienna in 1924 and grew up amid the political turmoil of interwar Austria. Raised in a Social Democratic household, he developed early political awareness during the rise of National Socialism. As a young man, he was drawn into the structures of the German state during the Second World War, first serving in the Labor Corps and later in the Panzer Grenadier Division Grossdeutschland. From 1942 onward, he experienced intense combat in Western Europe and on the Eastern Front, including major engagements at St. Nazaire, Poltava, and Kursk, where he was wounded. Captured at the war’s end, he spent two and a half years in Soviet prison camps. After his release, Novotny rebuilt his life, eventually emigrating to the Unit ...more

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