How Did Walther Rathenau Die?
Less Than Six Months After Becoming Foreign Minister, Rathenau Was Slain by Gunmen from a Right-Wing Paramilitary Group. What Did Walther Rathenau Do? Walther...
Less than six months after becoming foreign minister, Rathenau was slain by gunmen from a right-wing paramilitary group.
What did Walther Rathenau do?
Walther Rathenau, (born September 29, 1867, Berlin, Prussia [now in Germany]—died June 24, 1922, Berlin), German-Jewish statesman, industrialist, and philosopher who organized Germany's economy on a war footing during World War I and, after the war, as minister of reconstruction and foreign minister, was instrumental ...
Why was Matthias Erzberger assassinated?
Due to his signing the armistice of 1918, Erzberger was regarded as a traitor by many on the political right. Manfred von Killinger, a leading member of the Germanenorden, masterminded his killing by recruiting two members of the ultra-nationalist death squad Organisation Consul: Heinrich Tillessen and Heinrich Schulz.
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