biography
| name: |
Schirach, Baldur von
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pronunciation:
[sheerakh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1907–74)
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| biography:
| Nazi politician, born in Berlin, Germany. He studied at the University of Munich, became a party member in 1925, a member of the Reichstag (1932), and founded and organized the Hitler Youth (1933), of which he was leader until his appointment as Gauleiter of Vienna in 1940. Captured in Austria in 1945 and tried before the Nuremberg Tribunal, he was found guilty of participating in the mass deportation of Jews, and was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. He was released from Spandau prison in 1966. |
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