Education
Heinz attended an elite military academy, the National Political Institutes of Education (Napola) in Ballenstedt/Saxony-Anhalt.
Heinz attended an elite military academy, the National Political Institutes of Education (Napola) in Ballenstedt/Saxony-Anhalt.
When World World War II began, he joined the Wehrmacht and served on the Eastern Front, where he was captured and died in prison in 1942. Aspiring to be an officer, Heinz joined the Wehrmacht as a signals subofficer with the 23rd Potsdamer Artillery Regiment in 1941, and he participated in the invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa. On 10 January 1942, he was ordered to collect radio equipment from an army post.
He was captured by Soviet forces and was tortured to death at the Butyrka military prison in Moscow, aged 21.
"One of the lads had a car. They tore through Magdeburg without a license.
The police stopped them and he showed his Idaho "Heinz Hitler" the police just saluted and let them drive on (laughs).".