The third Reich

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Who was foreign secretary of Hitler's government?
He met Adolf Hitler in 1932 and joined the National Socialist Party the same year, becoming the führer’s chief adviser on foreign affairs after the Nazi accession to power (Jan. 30, 1933).
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Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893 - 1946)
Ribbentrop’s greatest diplomatic coup, however, was the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact of Aug. 23, 1939, which cleared the way for Hitler’s attack on Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, thus beginning World War II.
Who assumed the Security Central Office after Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated?
A rabid anti-Semite, he was said to have agreed with Himmler at a conference in 1942 that the gas chamber should be the form of execution used in the slaughter of Jews.
As such, he was in charge of both the Gestapo and the system of Nazi concentration camps scattered throughout Europe.
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Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903 -1946)
Ernst Kaltenbrunner controlled the administrative apparatus for carrying out the extermination of European Jewry in 1943–45.
Who was in charge of all security and secret police in the Third Reich?
On May 27, 1942, two Free Czech agents mortally wounded him with a bomb while he was riding in his car without an armed escort.
He chaired the notorious Wannsee Conference (January 20, 1942), whose participants discussed the logistics of the “final solution.”
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Reinhard Heydrich (1904 -1942)
On July 31, 1941, Hermann Göring commissioned Heydrich to carry out a “final solution to the Jewish question,” authorizing him to take all organizational and administrative steps necessary for the extermination of the Jews.

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