DI Norbert Grahsl

The agricultural engineer Norbert Grahsl, an official of the VF, is pursued and arrested by the Gestapo three days after the Anschluss. After a few days, he was released and conscripted to the Reich Labor Service in the "Altreich". There he was beaten by a farmer because of his Catholic beliefs, which he did not want to deny, to such an extent that he lost his speech. It was only after his mother intervened from Vienna that he received medical treatment and was restored to such an extent that he was able to enlist in the Wehrmacht. He was killed on June 12, 1942 on the Eastern Front near Sevastopol.