During World War II he led many Stuka attacks across Europe. Hans-Ulrich Rudel was a German Luftwaffe Stuka pilot. Hans-Ulrich Rudel in The War That Came Early Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz 'Angel of Death.' A committed and unrepentant Nazi, he founded the Kameradenwerk, a relief organization for Nazi criminals that helped fugitives escape to Latin America and the Middle East.

Rudel flew 2530 combat missions and successfully attacked many tanks, trains, ships, and other ground targets, claiming a total of 2000 targets destroyed - including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery guns, one destroyer, two cruisers, one Soviet battleship, 70 landing craft, four armored trains, several bridges and nine aircraft which he shot down. Rudel was one of only 27 military men to be awarded the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, and the only one to be awarded the Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. Rudel is famous for being the most highly decorated German serviceman of the war. Following the fall of Perón, Rudel moved to Paraguay, where he acted as a foreign representative for several German companies.Hans-Ulrich Rudel (2 July 1916 – 18 December 1982) was a Stuka dive-bomber pilot during World War II. In the West German federal election of 1953, Rudel was the top candidate for the far-right German Reich Party but was not elected. He worked as an arms dealer to several right-wing regimes in South America, for which he was placed under observation by the US Central Intelligence Agency. An unrepentant Nazi, he helped fugitives escape to Latin America and the Middle East, and sheltered Josef Mengele, the former SS doctor at Auschwitz. Rudel surrendered to US forces in 1945 and emigrated to Argentina.

He flew 2,530 ground-attack missions exclusively on the Eastern Front, usually flying the Junkers Ju 87 'Stuka' dive bomber. He claimed 51 aerial victories and the destruction of more than 800 vehicles. The most decorated German pilot of the war and the only recipient of the Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds, Rudel was credited with the destruction of 519 tanks, one battleship, one cruiser, 70 landing craft and 150 artillery emplacements. Hans-Ulrich Rudel (2 July 1916 – 18 December 1982) was a German ground-attack pilot during World War II and a post-war neo-Nazi activist.

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