Alfred Rosenberg
Alfred Rosenberg – Summary
Alfred Rosenberg was nothing if not eccentric. It says quite a bit about his thought process when Hitler stopped taking advice from him because he was not as practical. It is very interesting that even Hitler thought he was crazy. Rosenberg was a strong supporter of the Nazi party and worked hard to align himself with Hitler and held several leadership positions within the party. When Hitler was imprisoned in 1924 he appointed Rosenberg as the head of the party and when Rosenberg stood by Hitler in the Beer Hall Putsch Hitler made him a member of the Blood Order. In 1929 Rosenberg organized and became the leader of Combat League for German Culture. This group was in charge of creating and enforcing Nazi ideas on aesthetics and literary arts. In 1934 Hitler rewarded him for his work on aesthetics and placed him in charge of the Office for Supervision of the Total Intellectual and Ideological Schooling and Education of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Then in 1941 he was given the position of Reich Minister for the Eastern Territories. This made him in charge of the civil administration for all German occupied lands in Eastern Europe. While he occasionally protested against SS brutality in the Ukraine he fully cooperated with orders for the Final Solution. It was for direct involvement in this that led to him being convicted and hanged as a war criminal.
Rosenberg was not the first to come up with the ideology embraced by Nazism but he enjoyed writing about and spreading the beliefs of the Nazi party. At the core of Nazi beliefs was the idea that Germans were inherently superior to all other races and nationalities. He believed that “Germans embodied an inward purity greater than that of any other nation.” He also believed that Aryans a Nordic people were a minority group just trying to preserve their identity. Rosenberg propagated the idea that miscegenation was the root cause of the nations decline. In
Alfred Rosenberg was nothing if not eccentric. It says quite a bit about his thought process when Hitler stopped taking advice from him because he was not as practical. It is very interesting that even Hitler thought he was crazy. Rosenberg was a strong supporter of the Nazi party and worked hard to align himself with Hitler and held several leadership positions within the party. When Hitler was imprisoned in 1924 he appointed Rosenberg as the head of the party and when Rosenberg stood by Hitler in the Beer Hall Putsch Hitler made him a member of the Blood Order. In 1929 Rosenberg organized and became the leader of Combat League for German Culture. This group was in charge of creating and enforcing Nazi ideas on aesthetics and literary arts. In 1934 Hitler rewarded him for his work on aesthetics and placed him in charge of the Office for Supervision of the Total Intellectual and Ideological Schooling and Education of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Then in 1941 he was given the position of Reich Minister for the Eastern Territories. This made him in charge of the civil administration for all German occupied lands in Eastern Europe. While he occasionally protested against SS brutality in the Ukraine he fully cooperated with orders for the Final Solution. It was for direct involvement in this that led to him being convicted and hanged as a war criminal.
Rosenberg was not the first to come up with the ideology embraced by Nazism but he enjoyed writing about and spreading the beliefs of the Nazi party. At the core of Nazi beliefs was the idea that Germans were inherently superior to all other races and nationalities. He believed that “Germans embodied an inward purity greater than that of any other nation.” He also believed that Aryans a Nordic people were a minority group just trying to preserve their identity. Rosenberg propagated the idea that miscegenation was the root cause of the nations decline. In