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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk was appointed finance minister by Franz von Papen in 1932, a non-partisan conservative who stayed in the post when Adolf Hitler took power the following year at President Hindenburg's request. His ministry participated directly in the theft and laundering of property seized from German and European Jews and financed the concentration camp system. On 30 January 1937 Hitler gave him the Golden Party Badge, making him automatically a Nazi Party member; he also joined the Academy for German Law that year. After Hitler and Joseph Goebbels died in May 1945, he became "Leading Minister" of the Flensburg Government under President Karl Dönitz, holding the titles of foreign minister and finance minister in a provisional regime that controlled a shrinking sliver of territory until the Allies dissolved it and arrested everyone involved. At the 1949 Ministries Trial he was convicted of laundering stolen property and financing the camps, sentenced to ten years, then released in 1951. He spent his remaining decades writing and working as a publicist, dying in 1977.