Other members of the so-called Mischlingsliga were, for example, Mathilde Lewit, whom Gertrude met during forced labor in Vienna and by whose side she survived the time in the concentration camp. And Otto Horn, who only learned of his father's Jewish origins at the “Anschluss”. He and Gertrude married in 1946.
Otto Horn came to the group through his work colleague, Otto Ernst Andreasch. He was a construction technician and had already been active in the Communist Youth League (KJV) before the Nazi era. In 1943, Andreasch, who was 22 years old at the time, wrote a commandment for his future comrades-in-arms:
"I want to be a good comrade to you next to a good leader. I expect from you trust, dedication, sacrifice and unconditional devotion to the community; in a word: the convincing proof against the truthful lie of fascism about our inferiority. Our enemies claim that we “Mischlinge” are not able to form a community, that we have no heroism in us. Let them feel the heroic power of our community!”
The photograph above of Otto Ernst Andreasch was taken after a Gestapo interrogation. Presumably he was sitting across from a Nazi official and was subjected to violence. In 1944, Otto Ernst Andreasch died during his imprisonment in an air raid.
Source of the photograph: DÖW, Erkennungsdienstliche Kartei, Gestapo-Opfer.
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What impression do these lines make on you?
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Compare his statements with those of Gertrude Horn’s. What motivated the two to be members of the " Mischlingsliga"?