Wilhem Charlotte
Full name: Charlotte von TREBRA – LINDENAN Bismarch Wilhem / Charlotte Wilhem (Wilhem Charlotte) Year of birth and death: 1929 – 2009 Biography: As the youngest daughter of a Nazi intelligence officer, because she lost her mother at birth, Charlotte has a timid and quiet personality but has a kind, warm and close heart that gives her the ability to The ability to collect information is extremely great. Contact with this lovely girl will make the other person let down their guard, revealing important information, and Charlotte's timid but somewhat curious personality will accidentally accelerate this. Taking advantage of this, right after the formation of the Dienstmädchen-SS unit, she was 'recruited' by Arilda von Krüger (1936). Charlotte admires Arilda very much, she always wants to become strong and brave to lead so many people. Charlotte often told Arilda the stories she learned from others, including the enemy prisoners she came into contact with, who were the most important source of intelligence for the Dienstmädchen-SS unit. . Charlotte is also a very sentimental person, she is very enthusiastic to help injured comrades and is very sad when someone dies. The kind words when interacting with her were also considered by her, for which Charlotte was given the name 'Engel' by both Dienstmädchen-SS and other SS units. After Arilda disappeared on April 30, 1945, Charlotte fell into depression and low self-esteem. She just sat under the ruins of the German parliament, ignoring her injured arm and only moving when someone pulled her. The baby returned to the cellar. After Germany lost the war, at the war crimes trial (Nürnberger Prozesse), to the surprise of the judge and prosecutors, not only the SS unit but also the victims, prisoners as well as witnesses for German criminals who had contact with Charlotte, when they saw her being tried, protested any sentence given to her. This is the only rare case, when an SS member accepted to endure all the court's sentences, but the victim only accepted the sentence of 'release' for 'a girl barely old enough to be his own daughter'. There was even a case where they even demanded 'death with all the prosecutors and judges if Charlotte had any fate'. In the end, the court judged Charlotte 'acquitted' and her father Otto Wihlem was only detained for 5 years. After growing up, after a trip to Argentina, she returned to Germany to marry a doctor and, along with her husband, actively participated in peace activities, charity organizations and medical organizations worldwide. world. She repeatedly refused requests to award the Nobel Peace Prize and even donated money to increase the award's reward. After Germany was reunited (October 3, 1990), Charlotte traveled everywhere to visit her old teammates and those who had come into contact with her to heal their wounds. At the end of her life, she wrote many autobiographies recounting her happy childhood in Dienstmädchen-SS, Charlotte also expressed her desire to meet Arilda again because 'the piece of paper left behind at that time was too short to make me myself. feel happy'. On the morning of September 18, 2009, after talking to an old woman nearly 90 years old at a hospital near her home, Charlotte (now over 80 years old) returned with a satisfied smile. Three days later, Charlotte passed away happily in the presence of her children and grandchildren. Before she died, she only said: "Danke, dass ich dich wiedersehen durfte, Arilda". A simple but meaningful funeral took place, Charlotte was buried next to her husband. Viewpoint: “Ich bin es nicht wert, meine Arbeit besteht nur darin, für meine Sünden zu büßen und sie jemandem zu geben, der würdiger ist”.