Alfred Rosenberg

Definition

Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946) was an Estonian-born Nazi who propounded anti-Semitic racial theory and anti-Christian values. Rosenberg's theories matched those of the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and were used to justify attacks on Jewish people, Communists, and homosexuals, amongst many others.

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  • 1893 - 1946
    Life of the Nazi race theorist Alfred Rosenberg.
  • 1919
    Alfred Rosenberg joins the German Nazi party.
  • 1920
    Alfred Rosenberg publishes his 'The Track of the Jews through the Ages'.
  • 1923
    Alfred Rosenberg is appointed managing editor of the weekly Nazi newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter.
  • 1927
    Alfred Rosenberg is appointed head of the National Socialist Society for Culture and Learning.
  • 1930
    Alfred Rosenberg publishes his 'Myth of the Twentieth Century'.
  • 1934
    Alfred Rosenberg is given the title 'The Führer's Delegate for the Entire Intellectual and Philosophical Education and Instruction of the Nationalist Socialist Party'.
  • 1943
    Alfred Rosenberg is appointed the Reich Minister of the Eastern Occupied Territories.
  • 16 Oct 1946
    Alfred Rosenberg is found guilty at the Nuremberg trials and hanged for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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