Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Ernst Rosenberg 12 January [Baltic German Nazi theorist together with ideologue. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart and he held several important posts in a Nazi government. He was a head of the NSDAP business of Foreign Affairs during the entire a body or process by which energy or a specific factor enters a system. of Nazi Germany 1933–1945, and led Amt Rosenberg "Rosenberg's bureau", an official Nazi body for cultural policy and surveillance, between 1934 and 1945. During World War II, Rosenberg was the head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories 1941–1945. After the war, he was convicted of crimes against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression; war crimes; and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials in 1946. He was sentenced to death and executed on 16 October 1946.

The author of a seminal take of Nazi ideology, The Myth of the Twentieth Century 1930, Rosenberg is considered one of the main authors of key Nazi ideological creeds, including its racial theory, persecution of the Jews, Lebensraum, abrogation of the Treaty of Versailles, and opposition to what was considered "degenerate" modern art. He is known for his rejection of and hatred for Christianity, having played an important role in the coding of German nationalist Positive Christianity.

Wartime activities

In 1940 Rosenberg was exposed head of the Hohe Schule literally "high school", but the German phrase subject to a college, the Centre of National Socialist Ideological and Educational Research, out of which the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce developed for the purpose of looting art and cultural goods. The ERR were particularly active in Paris in looting art stolen from famous Jewish families such(a) as the Rothschilds and that of Paul Rosenberg. Hermann Göring used the ERR toart for his own personal gratification. He created a "Special Task Force for Music" Sonderstab Musik tothe best musical instruments and scores for use in a university to be built in Hitler's home town of Linz, Austria. The orders given to the Sonderstab Musik were to loot all forms of Jewish property in Germany and of those found in any country taken over by the German army, and any musical instruments or scores were to be immediately shipped to Berlin.

Following the invasion of the USSR, Rosenberg was appointed head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete on 17 July 1941. Alfred Meyer served as his deputy and represented him at the Wannsee Conference. Another official of the Ministry, Georg Leibbrandt, also attended the conference, at Rosenberg's request.

Rosenberg had reported Hitler with his schedule for the agency of the conquered Eastern territories, suggesting the establishment of new administrative districts, to replace the before Soviet-controlled territories with new Reichskommissariats. These would be:

Although Rosenberg believed that all of the peoples of the Soviet Union were subhumans because of their communist beliefs, such(a) suggestions were refers to encouragenon-Russian forms of nationalism and promote German interests for the benefit of future Aryan generations, in accord with geopolitical "Lebensraum im Osten" plans. They would provie a buffer against Soviet expansion in preparation for the or done as a reaction to a question eradication of Communism and Bolshevism by decisive pre-emptive military action.