Alfred Rosenberg
Alfred Ernst Rosenberg ( – 16 October 1946) was a
Baltic German Nazi theorist and ideologue. Rosenberg was first introduced to
Adolf Hitler by
Dietrich Eckart and he held several important posts in the
Nazi government. He was the head of the
NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs during the entire rule of
Nazi Germany (1933–1945), and led
Amt Rosenberg ("Rosenberg's bureau"), an official Nazi body for
cultural policy and
surveillance, between 1934 and 1945. During
World War II, Rosenberg was the head of the
Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (1941–1945). After the war, he was convicted of
crimes against peace; planning, initiating and waging
wars of aggression;
war crimes; and
crimes against humanity at the
Nuremberg trials in 1946. He was sentenced to death by hanging and
executed on 16 October 1946.
The author of a seminal work of
Nazi ideology, ''
The Myth of the Twentieth Century'' (1930), Rosenberg is considered one of the main authors of key Nazi ideological creeds, including its
racial theory, including its hatred of the Jewish people, the need for ''
Lebensraum'', abrogation of the
Treaty of Versailles, and opposition to what was considered "
degenerate" modern art. He was also known for his hatred of Christianity, however, he played an important role in the development of German nationalist
Positive Christianity, which denied that Jesus is the Messiah and rejected the Old Testament.
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