biography
pronunciation:
[papen]
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| lived:
| (1879–1969)
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| biography:
| German politician, born in Werl, WC Germany. He was military attaché in Mexico and Washington, chief-of-staff with a Turkish army, and took to Centre Party politics. As Hindenburg's chancellor (1932) he suppressed the Prussian Socialist government, and as Hitler's vice-chancellor (1933–4) signed a concordat with Rome. He later became ambassador to Austria (1936–8) and Turkey (1939– 44). Taken prisoner in 1945, he was acquitted at the Nuremberg Trials. |
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