Ernst Schacht

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Soviet Air Force general (1904-1942)

Lived 1904 to 1942 · aged 37

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Ernst Schacht, a Swiss of German origin, emigrated to the Soviet Russia in 1922 when he was 18 years old. Enlisting in the Soviet air force, he headed the Soviet bomber squadron which, on 7 November 1936, bombed Nationalist forces during the siege of Madrid.

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A cenotaph to Ernst Schacht in Moscow

Awards 4

Order of the Red Banner

Order of Lenin

Hero of the Soviet Union

Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"

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deceased

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Lived 1904 to 1942 · aged 37

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