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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 ...
- 1939–1940
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May 9, 2024 · Baldur von Schirach 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 in 1932. He was appointed.
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Baldur von Schirach was a prominent Nazi official who organised the Hitler Youth and governed Vienna during the war. He was convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in the deportation of Jews and served time in Spandau prison.
Learn about the role of Baldur von Schirach, leader of the Hitler Youth and Nazi governor of Vienna, in the Holocaust. Find out how he was charged, tried and sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.
Baldur Benedikt von Schirach (* 9. Mai 1907 in Berlin; † 8. August 1974 in Kröv an der Mosel, Rheinland-Pfalz) war ein deutscher Politiker während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Er war Reichsjugendführer der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP).
Aug 9, 1974 · MUNICH, West Germany, Aug. 8 (Reuters)—Baldur von Schirach, the first leader of the Hitler Youth, who served 20 years in the Spandau Prison for his role in the deportation and execution of...
A biography of Baldur von Schirach, a Nazi leader and Hitler's youth chief who was convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg. Learn about his early involvement in the Nazi Party, his role in the Hitler Youth movement, his actions in Vienna and his denunciation of Hitler.
