Felmy, Hellmuth Wolfgang, born 28-05-1885 in Berlin,
Joseph Goebbels (did you know)
was next to propaganda minister, the Gauleiter of Berlin. The son of Otto Emil Alexander and Anna Martha Maria, born Fleischer Felmÿ, Hellmuth joined the Imperial Army in 1904 and in 1912, Felmy went to the Flight School to become a pilot for the Imperial Army Air Service. During World War I, Felmy commanded a squadron on the Turkish Front. After the war, he remained in the German military. Felmy alternated between infantry and aviation assignments in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic. On 04-02-1938, Felmy was promoted to General der Flieger, by Hermann Göring (did you know).
Felmy, was married to Helene born Boettcher, and he was the father of the actor Hansjörg Felmy. 





By the beginning of World War II, Felmy commanded Air Fleet 2 of the Luftwaffe
. On 12-01-1940, he was dismissed due to the Mechelen Incident by Albert Kesselring













In 1948, during the Hostages Trial in Nuremberg, Felmy was accused of war crimes in Greece, the massacre of Klissoura and was given a sentence of 15 years.
Defendants during a walk in the municipal prison yard, from left to right:Hellmuth Felmy, von Weichs,
Hermann Foertsch.
Foertsch died age 66 on 27-12-1961 in München, On 15-01-1951, Felmy was released earlier. During the massacre of Klissoura soldiers from SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 7 killed 215 civilians in Klissoura 05-04-1944 in retaliation of the killing of two German soldiers. Hermann Neubacher,
Sonderbevollmächtigter des Auswärtigen Amtes für den Südosten (Special representative of the Foreign office for the South-East-area), reported on this massacre in a telegram to Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop










Death and burial ground of Felmy, Hellmuth Wolfgang.






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