Duke Albrecht of Bavaria; Imprisoned by Nazis

Duke Albrecht of Bavaria, 91, who survived imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Albrecht became head of the house of Wittelsbach at the death of his father, Rupprecht, in 1955 and never relinquished his right to the Bavarian throne. He was heir to the crown in 1918 when World War I ended his family’s 738-year reign. In protest of Adolf Hitler, Albrecht fled to Hungary in 1937. He returned in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II and volunteered for the German army. But Nazis refused to let him serve, and in 1944 arrested Albrecht and his family and put them in several concentration camps. They were liberated by the Allies the following year. On July 8 near Munich.