Vrba.

This is coolbert:

"A total of around 3,000 horsemen, cavalry, fighting

on the side of the German against the Soviet,

acquitting themselves with a lot of honor, very good fighters,

not to be trifled with . . . UNDER THE COMMAND OF A GERMAN

OFFICER GOING BY THE NAME OF DR. OTTO DOLL!

Reputedly the only German officer that could speak Tibetan!"

This Dr. Otto Doll was the nom de guerre of the man?

"nom de guerre – - noun . . . an assumed name, as one under which a person fights, paints, writes, etc.; pseudonym. French: literally, war name"

His real name [?] was Rudolph Vrba?

This is very confusing and the material as found at that Axis History web site too is not clear on the matter.

There is a historical figure named Rudolph Vrba. But surely not the same Dr. Otto Doll!

Rudolph Vrba was a Jew, one of only four persons known to have successfully escaped from Auschwitz, and the co-author of the first report giving an eye-witness account of the atrocities as perpetrated at the Nazi death camp.

The historical Rudolph Vrba and the German commander of the Kalmuck cavalry fighting for the German during World War Two are NOT ONE AND THE SAME PERSON!

Unless someone can clarify otherwise, we are all on the same page? Who then exactly is this Dr. Otto Doll? ONLY man [officer?] in the German army reputedly able to speak Tibetan!

coolbert.