Militant League for German Culture Members - Alfred Rosenberg, Cosima Wagner, Philipp Lenard, Karl Bohm, Hanns Johst, Gustaf Kossinna (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Alfred Rosenberg, Cosima Wagner, Philipp Lenard, Karl Bohm, Hanns Johst, Gustaf Kossinna, Philipp Bouhler, Bernhard Rust, Hinrich Lohse, Hans Schemm, Othmar Spann, Paul Schultze-Naumburg, Alfred Baeumler, Hans Hinkel, August Hirt, German Bestelmeyer, Bolko von Richthofen, Hans von Benda, Robert Heinrich Wagner, Ernst Wahle, Friedrich Blume, Alexander von Senger, Benno von Arent, Eugen Honig, Fritz Mackensen, J. F. Lehmann, Mark Lothar, Carl Braun. Excerpt: .) (12 January 1893 - 16 October 1946) was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi Party. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart; he later held several important posts in the Nazi government. He is considered one of the main authors of key Nazi ideological creeds, including its racial theory, persecution of the Jews, Lebensraum, abrogation of the Treaty of Versailles, and opposition to "degenerate" modern art. He is also known for his rejection of Christianity, having played an important role in the development of Positive Christianity, which he intended to be transitional to a new Nazi faith. At Nuremberg he was tried, sentenced to death and executed by hanging as a war criminal. Rosenberg was born in 1893 in Reval (today's Tallinn, in Estonia, then part of the Russian Empire) to a family of Baltic Germans: his father, Waldemar Wilhelm Rosenberg, was a wealthy merchant from Latvia, his mother, Elfriede, from Estonia. (Tallinn archivist J. Rajandi claimed in the 1930s that Rosenberg's family had Estonian origins.) The young Rosenberg studied architecture at the Riga Polytechnical Institute and engineering at Moscow Highest Technical School completing his Ph.D. studies in 1917. During the Russian Revolution of 1917 Rosenberg supported the counter-revolutionaries; following their failure he emigrated to Germany in 1918 a...