biography
pronunciation:
[rahtenow]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1867–1922)
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| biography:
| Industrialist and statesman, born in Berlin, Germany. He organized German war industries during World War 1, and in 1921, as minister of reconstruction, and after February 1922 as foreign minister, dealt with reparations. His attempts to negotiate a reparations agreement with the victorious Allies, and the fact that he was Jewish, made him extremely unpopular in nationalist circles, and he was murdered by extremists. |
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