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Parent topics

• Adolf Hitler [r]: (1889–1945) Politician in Germany; became 1921 Nazi Party leader, 1933 Reichskanzler (Chancellor), then 1934 as der Führer dictator before and during World War II. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Reich Foreign Office [r]: Weimar and Nazi cabinet ministry concerned with the conduct of diplomacy; headed by Constantin von Neurath (1932-1938) and Joachim von Ribbentrop (1938-1945) ^[e]
• Anti-Comintern Pact [r]: A 1936 treaty between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan, not specifically of mutual defense against the Soviet Union, but of the ostensibly independent Communist International (Comintern) ^[e]
• Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact [r]: A 1939 nonaggression pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, with a secret protocol establishing spheres of influence for the two countries; effectively abrogated by the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany ^[e]
• Trial of the Major War Criminals [r]: Conducted by the four major Allied powers in Europe, this proceeding tried the designated Major War Criminals of Nazi Germany, as well as determining whether certain Nazi organizations were to be considered as criminal conspiracies to which membership was a crime ^[e]

Staff

• Felix Benzler [r]: Reich Foreign Office representative in German-occupied Serbia ^[e]
• Otto von Erdmannsdorff [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Wilhelm Keppler [r]: State Secretary for Special Assignments, Reich Foreign Office (1939-1945); war materials expert and economic adviser to Adolf Hitler (1932-1938); defendant in Ministries Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Fritz Gebhard von Hahn [r]: Legislative Secretary in the Reich Foreign Office and assistant to Franz Rademacher ^[e]
• Martin Luther [r]: Protege of Joachim von Ribbentrop, who met him when he was a furniture mover; rose to Undersecretary of the Reich Foreign Office; reperesentative at Wannsee Conference; purged in 1943 when he tried to replace Ribbentrop ^[e]
• Gustav Adolf Steengracht von Moyland [r]: State Secretary in the Reich Foreign Office, member of the personal staff of Joachim von Ribbentrop; defense witness at Trial of the Major War Criminals and defendant in Ministries Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Franz Rademacher [r]: Head of the Jewish Desk of the Reich Foreign Office; Nazi Party member since 1933 ^[e]
• Karl Ritter [r]: German Ambassador to Brazil (1937-1938); Nazi Party member; Ambassador for Special Assignments, Reich Foreign Office (1939-1945); Liaison from Foreign Minister to Chief of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht; defendant in Ministries Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Ernst von Weizsaecker [r]: German diplomat from 1920 who rose to State Secretary of the German Foreign Office (1938 to 1943) and then Ambassador to the Holy See; imprisoned by the Ministries Case (NMT) after WWII but sentence commuted ^[e]
• Ernst Woermann [r]: (1888-1979) Reich Foreign Office Ministerial Director and Chief of the Political Division (1938-1943) who received Einsatzgruppen reports; German Ambassador to Nanking (1943-1945); defendant in Ministries Case (NMT) ^[e]

Other related topics

• Constantin von Neurath [r]: (1873-1956) German career diplomat, foreign minister 1932 under Franz von Papen 1932, continued under Nazis until expansionist policy of 1938; took role in Czech occupation ^[e]
• Herschel Grynszpan [r]: (1921—1940s) German political assassin and Jewish victim of Holocaust. ^[e]