Eric Pleasants

Eric Pleasants

Eric Pleasants (1911-1998) was a British citizen during World War II who defected to serve in the Waffen-SS. Pleasants was an "SS-Schütze" in the British Free Corps which, in 1941, became a foreign legion of the Waffen-SS.

Pleasants deserted from the Waffen-SS in 1945 and went into hiding. Captured by the Red Army in 1946, he was imprisoned for seven years in a gulag along the arctic circle before returning to England in the 1950s.

Pleasants' autobiography was published posthumously as "Hitler's Bastard: Through Hell and Back in Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia " (2003).Pleasants was up to the late 1980s an Aikido teacher in Norwich.


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