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    The NSKOV

    Jul 24, 2019 4 minutes
    by Chris William

    When Adolf Hitler and the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP — the Nazi Party) came to power in 1933, German armed service veterans enjoyed a substantial increase in public recognition for their past military service. This was due in part to the NSDAP’s propaganda machine that had ignited a cult-like reverence for those citizens who had served their country in the trenches during the Great War.

    One of the groups that benefited from this new found admiration was the Nationalsozialistische Kriegsopferversorgung (NSKOV — the National Socialist War Victims Care).

    The NSKOV began as a loosely knit contingent in 1930 that

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