Ernst Achenbach (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ernst Achenbach (April 9, 1909, Siegen, Westphalia -December 2, 1991, Essen) was a German lawyer and politician of the Nazi Party, and after World War II, the Free Democratic Party. Achenbach, a Protestant by faith, attended High School in Gelsenkirchen. Subsequently, he studied law in Paris, Berlin, Hamburg and Bonn. After the first state examination in 1931, he pursued further studies and graduated in 1936, and began working as Managing Director of the Adolf Hitler Fund, involved with the collection of donations. He became a formal member of the Nazi party in 1937. After joining the Nazi Party, in 1937 Achenbach began Foreign Service in 1939 served at the German Embassy in Paris. During the German occupation of France (1940-1944), he was from June 1940 to May 1943, Head of the Political Department of the Embassy, and a close collaborator of the German Ambassador Otto Abetz. Within that framework, Achenbach was also responsible for the implementation of the deportation of the Jews. In 1944/45 he was a soldier and after the war he led American investigators to believe that the German Embassy in France had been a stronghold of the conspiracy against Hitler.