Victor Kugler was one of the people who helped hide Anne Frank

Anne Frank

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt...

 and her family and friends during the Nazi

Nazism

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 occupation of the Netherlands

Netherlands

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. In Anne Frank's posthumously published diary, The Diary of a Young Girl

The Diary of a Young Girl

The Diary of a Young Girl is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944 and Anne Frank ultimately died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen...

, he was referred to under the name Mr. Kraler.

Born in Hohenelbe (now Vrchlabí

Vrchlabí

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) in the German-speaking part of Köninggrätz region (Královéhradecký kraj/Hradec Králové Region

Hradec Králové Region

Hradec Králové Region is an administrative unit of the Czech Republic, located in the north-eastern part of its historical region of Bohemia. It is named after its capital Hradec Králové....

), north-eastern Bohemia

Bohemia

Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...

, Austria-Hungary

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 (now in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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), he joined the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the First World War once his education was completed, but was discharged in 1918 after being wounded.