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August Perk
August Perk (October 25, 1897, Lohne / Lingen, Germany; – May 12, 1945, Braunschweig, Germany) was a German Resistance fighter against the National Socialism. His brief friendship with Erich Maria Remarque influenced Remarque's novel "All Quiet on the Western Front".
Biography.
August Perk was born as the son of a merchant family based in Lohne, Germany. At the Age of 17 August Perk served as a soldier in World War I in Russia and France.
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the Nazi Perpetrators and won the Trial. In 1934 the new Nazi Rulers condemned the faithful Catholic August Perk for political reasons to six months imprisonment, which was repealed for retention. Years later (in Nordhorn), on April 14, 1943, the Gestapo arrested August Perk as a result of denunciation by neighbors and colleagues.
On August 11, 1943, August Perk was convicted by the Higher Regional Court in Hamm (Germany) to two years in prison camp for "undermining military morale". August Perk survived the