Since the formation of the Nazi Party in Germany, Alfred Rosenberg has been its ideologue. He became the author of the key provisions of the imperial ideology. Rosenberg developed the foundations of the "racial theory", suggested ways for the "final solution" of the Jewish question, and actively fought against the "degeneration of art."
From the biography of Alfred Rosenberg
Rosenberg was born in 1893 in the family of a German and an Estonian. The birthplace of the ideologue of Nazism was Revel (Tallinn). According to some sources, his father was a shoemaker. According to others, he is a merchant. In 1910 Rosenberg entered the Riga Technical School.
Five years later, the educational institution is evacuated to Moscow. Rosenberg studied architecture a lot and even received a diploma. During the October Revolution, he lived in Moscow and even had sympathy for the Bolsheviks.
In early 1918, Alfred returned to Revel and made an attempt to join the German Volunteer Corps. However, he was considered "Russian" and was refused admission.
At the end of 1918, Rosenberg moved to Munich. In 1920, he became close to the future Fuhrer of Germany Hitler and became a member of the Nazi party. It was Rosenberg who influenced the formation of the views of the Nazi leader. Contemporaries noted Alfred's ability to present highly original ideas in an accessible form. He explained the history of mankind from the standpoint of racial theory. In the early 1920s, Rosenberg published several anti-Semitic books. Hitler used a number of ideas of the future ideologist of the party when writing his book "Mein Kampf".
Rosenberg's personal life
In 1915, Rosenberg married Hilda Leesman. The woman was educated, loved Russian classical literature. The couple divorced in 1923. A couple of years later, Rosenberg married a German woman, Hedwig Kramer, with whom he spent the rest of his life. In this marriage, the couple had two children. The son died in infancy. After the war, my daughter worked as a secretary, using her knowledge of languages.
Walking into power
After Hitler came to power in 1933, Rosenberg became the head of the NSDAP administration, in charge of foreign policy. Later he became authorized by the head of state for moral and philosophical education. The so-called "Rosenberg headquarters" over time from a research center turned into a powerful organization that carried out the seizure of valuables in the territories occupied by the Nazis.
Vigorous activity as the chief ideologist of the Third Reich made Rosenberg one of the most influential politicians of the fascist regime.
Back in May 1941, Hitler approved the plan presented by Rosenberg to plunder the USSR. In the diary of the ideologue of fascism, there was a record that the Fuhrer entrusted him to rule defeated Russia. Rosenberg believed that after the conquest of the Land of Soviets by Germany, millions of people would have to be killed or the entire Russian population had to be resettled to Siberia. He also suggested that Hitler establish the management of the conquered territories in such a way that one part of the population fought with another under the supervision of the Nazis.
When the war ended, Rosenberg was arrested and tried by a military tribunal at Nuremberg. He was sentenced to death. He was hanged by court verdict in October 1946. He was the only one of the Nazi leaders sentenced to death who refused the last word he was supposed to have. Until his last breath, Rosenberg remained a staunch Nazi.
