biography
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| (1890–1960)
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| biography:
| Nazi politician, born in Trakehnen, Germany. He studied at Berlin and Leipzig, was one of Hitler's chief advisers, and succeeded Schacht as minister of economics and president of the Reichsbank. He played a leading part in planning the economic aspects of the attack on Russia, and in the exploitation of occupied territories. Captured in 1945, he was sentenced to life imprisonment as a war criminal, but was released in 1957 because of illness. |
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