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Alfred Rosenberg (Perpetrator)

Alfred Rosenberg was a Perpetrator. He was hung in 1946 for being a “war criminal”. He was born in Estonia in 1893 to a family of Baltic Germans, and lived to age 53, dying in 1946. His nationality was an anti-Semitic, which is a term used to describe prejudice against or hostility towards Jews. But, to him, religious principals weren’t important, what mattered to him was that a belief should serve the interests of the Nordic race, connecting to the individual to his racial nature. Alfred immigrated to Germany in 1918, where he became a Nazi.

Alfred joined the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party) in January 1919. In fact, he was one of the earliest members, and one of the most devoted to their beliefs. He was also associated with Adolf Hitler. For example, Hitler made him the leader of the Nazi Party while he was in jail. Alfred was a member of the ultra-nationalist, Thule Society, which reinforced his obsession with the nefarious role of Jews. This shows that his contribution to the Holocaust must have been bad and criminal. His impulsive action to become involved in the plight of the Nazi Party was a bad decision because he had to face long term consequences in the future.

Alfred was a member of the Nazi Party all the way until his death. In 1934 he was appointed head center for Nazi Studies. He also became the editor of Volkischer Beaobaoher, the Nazi Party newspaper. During the Holocaust, Alfred published “The Myth of the 20th Century”, which was a racial tract opposing two races: The Jewish race, and the Aryan race. In his book he basically talked about how the Jewish religion was wrong and you shall not follow it. It lets somebody see how pedicure he is towards Jewish people, and that’s how he chose to live his life. In 1933, he was named head of the Nazi Party foreign policy office, and in 1941 he was appointed minister for the occupied Eastern territories. If you could not tell already Alfred Rosenberg is what you would call a “diehard” Nazi. He lived half of his life writing books about how bad Jewish people are, editing papers about Jewish people, and being head of an anti-Jew organization.

Perpetrator: Someone that does something that is morally wrong or criminal. What Alfred did during the Holocaust was immoral because his main goal was to turn everyone against Jews. For example, his book was for the most part about how the Jewish religion was bad and anyone who was Jewish was a bad person. Well, the long term punishment for his actions was that he was executed. Because what Alfred did was negative, I believe he got what he deserved. The court trialed him, and in the end he was executed for being a war criminal. Since the court had all this information on how much he despised the Jewish race, they thought it was only fair to kill him. He was hung in 1946.

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