Why Was Walther Rathenau Killed?

Kern had, according to Ernst Werner Techow, argued that Rathenau had to be murdered, because he had intimate relations with Bolshevik Russia, so that he had even married off his sister to the Communist Karl Radek – a complete fabrication – and that Rathenau himself had confessed to be one of the three hundred "Elders ...

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 ...

How many political assassinations happened in the Weimar Republic?

In total during the period there was 376 assassinations and murders of mainly moderate or centrist politicians. When it came to trying those guilty of carrying out the murders, left wing assassins were almost always convicted, whilst those on the right tended to get away with it.

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