Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 21 April 1918

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Lüdke was sterilised under a 1933 German law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, 'Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses'.
(29 May 1940)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Sunday 21st of April 1918 106 years ago War Er Kaputt
Fighter pilot and flying ace Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen aka The Red Baron is fatally shot in his Fokker Dr.I 425/17 by Canadian Captain Arthur 'Roy' Brown at the age of 26 in Route de Bray, Vaux-sur-Somme, Hauts de France, France. von Richthofen died from an extremely serious and inevitably fatal chest wound from a single .303 bullet penetrating from the right armpit and resurfacing next to the left nipple. von Richthofen's last word was "kaputt".