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AXMANN BLUE IN SIGNED HOFFMANN PHOTO PRINT, WITH TEXT, PHOTO 16, 1941
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Artur Axmann (18 February 1913 – 24 October 1996) was the German Nazi national leader (Reichsjugendführer) of the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) from 1940 to the war’s end in 1945. He was the last living Nazi with a rank equivalent to Reichsführer.

Axmann avoided capture by Soviet troops[12] and lived under the alias of “Erich Siewert” for several months. In December 1945, Axmann was arrested in Lübeck when a Nazi underground movement which he had been organising was uncovered by a U.S. Army counterintelligence operation.

In May 1949, a Nuremberg denazification court sentenced Axmann to a prison sentence of three years and three months as a ‘major offender’.He was not found guilty of war crimes. On 19 August 1958, a West Berlin court fined the former Hitler Youth leader 35,000 marks (approximately £3,000, or $8,300 USD) (equivalent to €74,527 in 2009), about half the value of his property in Berlin. The court found him guilty of indoctrinating German youth with National Socialism until the end of the war in Europe, but concluded he was not guilty of war crimes