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2 unusual facts about Rudolf Jordan


Rudolf Jordan

Only Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's visit to Moscow managed to persuade the Soviets to reconsider Jordan's sentence, and then he was released on 13 October 1955.

In 1922, Jordan became a member of the Freikorps Oberland, and alongside this service ended his teacher training in 1924.


Achim Gercke

When Gauleiter Rudolf Jordan claimed that Reinhard Heydrich had Jewish ancestry and therefore could not have been Aryan, it was Gercke who investigated the issue and concluded that Heydrich was a pure Aryan with no Jewish ancestry.


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