Ragnitz, Hans

Hans Ragnitz was born in 1973 in Mecklenburg of the former East Germany. As the global environment shifted around him, he went about his life. The echo of World War II was still felt as the new unified Germany began organizing itself and, for the first time, creating a military for defensive purposes. When Ragnitz was twenty years old, he joined the German military, called the Bundeswehr. He served twelve years as a military policeman, or MP. Ragnitz had the designation and honor to be one of the first Germans to be stationed militarily, and certainly one of the first in a prison camp since th...