Air Force Tech School and Emanuel Vogel
Today I shared a story with my church about a
young man I met while attending “Aircraft Maintenance School” at Chanute Air
Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois. The young man’s name was Emanuel Vogel, and he
was born in Germany. We were in the same Sunday School class and were ushers in
church. He told me about his family and that his father, Traugottt Vogel, had
written a book called Under the SS Shadow. Traugott was in the Hitler Youth
Corp. His father was a SS officer. When Germany got desperate they sent Youth
Corp teens into battle during the Battle of the Bulge. Traugott who was only
about 14-yrs-old was scared and ran away to find his father. When he did he
found the father had been killed by resistant fighters. No one would help him
bury him and the priest would not allow the burial to me in the graveyard. Only
the town drunk would help him bury his father outside the graveyard. Eventually
Traugott got a job on a US Army base. Eventually he was able to accept the
Americans. He attended a Billy Graham crusade and gave his life to God, eventually
becoming a minister of churches in Germany, Texas, Arizona and California.
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