Darre, Walther, 1895-1953
Extent and Medium
[39] p.
Note(s)
detailed dates of material: 1933-1940, 1952-1953
Envelope 5/1 ; microfilm reel 057 ; Frames 6 - 42
3 newspaper clippings and 36 typed pages copied from various German sources
Richard Walther Darré was an SS-Obergruppenführer and one of the leading Nazi "blood and soil" ideologists. He served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture from 1933 to 1942 -- (Wikipedia). In this position he was responsible, among many other crimes, for the enactment of a systematic policy of starvation of the Jews in Germany. By general decrees he ordered the municipal authorities in Germany to deprive Jews of basic food-stuffs and so he caused a stste of malnutrition among German Jews, to which many of them succumbed -- (from dossier)
People
- Darre, Walther, 1895-1953
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