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Beckhardt's son Kurt did not reveal the family's Jewish background to his own son Lorenz to spare him from the kind of persecution they experienced during the Nazi era, raising him as a
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In 1926, Beckhardt married Rosa Emma
Neumann in Wiesbaden, Germany. He then ran his father-in-law's grocery store until 1934. When the Nazis began their boycott of Jewish businesses on 1 April 1933, he moved from the suburb of Sonnenberg, where he had been doing business, to the center of Wiesbaden.
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Fritz and Rosa Emma
Beckhardt escaped to neutral Lisbon, Portugal, thence to England. After a brief internment on the Isle of Man, the Beckhardts moved in with one of the Froweins. In London they reunited with their two children Kurt and Sue Hilde who had been brought to England by the
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In 1937 Beckhardt was accused of having sexual relations with a non-Jewish "Aryan" woman. As a result of the trial on 14 December 1937, he was convicted and sent to prison for a year and nine months. After his time in prison he was taken in protective custody to a penal company in
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He then trained as a pilot at FEA 5 at
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In 1936 he drove two Jewish brothers named
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as prisoner no. 8135. Upon his release in March 1940, it was written in his records by the SS that he had scored 17 victories as a fighter pilot during World War I.
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On 3 August 1914, Beckhardt volunteered to serve in
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history because his valorous war record of 17 aerial victories belied their assertions that Jews were inherently cowardly.
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had interceded on the grounds of sentiment towards his old comrade in arms to facilitate his release. Beckhardt's lawyer,
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fighter ace in World War I. The Nazis later expunged him from
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Fritz Beckhardt in his Siemens-Schuckert D.III fighter.
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16:German flying ace (1889–1962)
518:Retrieved 29 September 2015.
506:Retrieved 29 September 2015.
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203:Iron Cross
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