Paul Bobrowksi

Paul Bobrowski (*17. August 1921;  †1. July 1943) was a german NCO (Oberfeldwebel).

Life
He was born in Königs-Wusterhausen on 17. August 1921. Bobrowksi had a very hard childhood, which led him to escape from home with only 14. He than had a filled youth by travelling to Moscow where he stayed until 1939, beceause his mother, which managed to get out his location, send him a letter in which she told him about shes in agony and whishes to see him bevore she dies. After he returned to Germany, he cared about his mother until she died of cancer in 1940. He then was about to return into the Soviet Union but was drafted into the Wehrmacht against his will. He took place in Operation Barbarossa and was killed by a fellow soldier while he was in hand-to-hand combat in the southern woodlands of Kursk in 1943.

Notable

 * During the war Bobrowski was still not in hate with the russians, he often openly shared his dissagreement with the Nazi' politics and antisemitism.
 * Through his attidude, he developed extraordinary fighting skills, as adapting to the rationality of war, which expresses in his awards, which included the Close Combat Clasp (silver) and the Iron Cross (2nd Class). With the Iron Cross (1st Class) he was never decorated, through his antifascist attitude.