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Baldur Benedikt von Schirach (9 May 1907 – 8 August 1974) was a German politician who served as head of the Hitler Youth from 1931 to 1940. From 1940 to 1945, he was the Gauleiter (district leader) and Reichsstatthalter (Reich governor) of Vienna. A member of the Nazi Party from the age of 18, Schirach was named national youth leader of the ...
Baldur von Schirach (born May 9, 1907, Berlin, Germany—died August 8, 1974, Kröv, West Germany) was a Nazi politician and head of the Nazi youth movement. The son of a German theatre director and an American mother, Schirach studied at the University of Munich. He joined the National Socialist Party in 1925 and was elected to the Reichstag ...
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The International Military Tribunal (IMT) held in Nuremberg, Germany, attempted to face this immense challenge. On October 18, 1945, the chief prosecutors of the IMT brought charges against 24 leading German officials, among them Baldur von Schirach. Baldur von Schirach (1907–1974) was leader of the Hitler Youth (1933–1945), and Reich ...
May 26, 2015 · On October 1st 1946, Schirach was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to twenty years in prison. He served his full term and was released in September 1966. Schirach spent the rest of his life in southern Germany and died on August 8th 1974. Baldur von Schirach was head of the Hitler Youth movement in Nazi Germany.
Von Schirach admitted that he had approved the “resettlement” but denied all knowledge of genocide, denouncing Hitler from the dock as a “million –fold murderer,” and calling Auschwitz “the most devilish mass murder in history.”. Von Schirach was sentenced on the 1 October 1946 to twenty years imprisonment for crimes against ...
Baldur von Schirach. Baldur von Schirach was born in Berlin on the 9 March 1907, the son of an aristocratic German father and an American mother whose ancestors included two signatories of the Declaration of Independence. O n his father’s side descended from an officers’ family with artistic tendencies and a cosmopolitan background, Baldur ...
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Von Schirach was elected to the Reichstag, or German parliament, in 1932. After Hitler took control of Germany, he appointed von Schirach as jugendführer de Deutschen Reiches—"Youth Führer" of the German Reich—on June 18, 1933. This meant that von Schirach was responsible for the extracurricular political training of all young people in ...
