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    • Trude at sport rally 1942
    • Trude - "Our Singing Group"
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    • Wilhelm Kriessmann - The War Years
    • Wilhelm Kriessmann's Memoir of 1925 to 1938
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    • Kraigher vs Kraigher - How Tito Escaped Hitler’s “Roesselsprung” Snare
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Gallery Images

1938 Partitag Souvenier
1940 Leader Workshop
A second daughter
Activity and Fitness
An Austrian War Memorial
Another picture with same pilots
Another view showing airfield commander
Anschluss crowd
BDM Leaders camp, August 1940
BDM marching
BDM summer camp 1942
BDM summer workshop
Bomber Pilot School Thorn, 1940
Certificate of recognition
Couple dancing
Crash site at Opalkovo
Criminal proceedings against L. Kriessmann abandoned
Curious onlookers are not lacking
Dance activity
Dining out in Vienna, 1954
Enjoying a senic spot in 1941
Feistriz goes on a KdF trip
Flight School at Straubing
German uniforms appear in Klagenfurt
Good friends
Group dance on terrace
Hitler comes to Klagenfurt in 1938
Hitler's parent's grave
Hitlerjugend representative, 1942
HJ celebrates victory
Idyllic setting for learning in 1939
Jet takeoff 1945
Katyn Crash Smolensk
Keeping it clean
Klagenfurt Hitlerjugend
Kurt Von Schuschnigg 1936
Landdienst - summer 1938
Leader training, 1942
Letter from Maria K. to Wolfsberg officials
Letter of dismissal as teacher 1945
Lithe and Lovely
Main gate at Wolfsberg Detention Camp
March-September 1938
More games
More redetention, 1947
Now there are three
NS Cultural-Educational camp
Organizing into groups
outdoor classroom
Overhead View
Parade before officers, Straubing
Performance
Pictures taken in Thorn-Wetchsel 1940
Pilot school class C6 at Kolberg
Piloting the Heinkel 111
Portrait of the young family
Re-employment as high school teacher
Refusal of request to release Herr Kriessmann, Sept '46
Reichsparteitag 1938
Request for dismissal denied Oct.'46
School dismissal "offset" 10-47
Ski break '43
Ski outing 1943
Standing at attention
Study and Quiet Time
Study time
Summer 1938 Farm Help
Taking a work break
Taking the oath
Teacher Certificates
The Arado 234 B at
The Berghof at Obersalzberg
Three guys on a bike
Trude and fellow leaders
Trude and friends
Trude, girls with basins
Weihnachten '38
Wilhelm Kriessmann at the Baltic Sea, Kolberg, 1940
Wilhelm Kriessmann Luftwaffe portrait
Wilhelm Kriessmann training on a Ju87 Stuka
Wilhelm's War Medals
Willi and boyhood friends
Willi at 15
Willi goes to work at the Trade Ministry
Willi in Russia
Willi weds Annemarie
Willi's classic baby photo
Willi's father nominated to town counselor
Willi's teacher father with school class
Willy playing teacher with sisters
Wolfsberg bunk beds
Wolfsberg Detention Camp
Youth on the march 1937

Life

  • Life of WLK
  • Confessions of a Young Nazi
  • Witness to the Anschluss

Gallery

  • Childhood and Youth
  • Soldier and Luftwaffe Pilot
  • De-Nazification
  • Post War in Vienna
  • Trude Kriessmann - teacher 1937-39
  • Trude - BDM leader 1940-43

Interviews

Interviews and discussions with Wilhelm Kriessmann conducted by Carolyn Yeager for "The Heretics' Hour" between March 2010 and November 2011.

Scrapbook

Pages from Willi's and Trude's scrapbooks, presented as PDF's so you can enlarge the pages for more detailed viewing of the photographs.

Writings

  • Kraigher vs Kraigher - How Tito Escaped Hitler’s “Roesselsprung” Snare
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