Alfred Rosenberg

Baltic German architect, Nazi politician and ideologue (1893-1946)

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Lived 1893–1946, aged 53
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  • Era
    1893–1946
    Aged 53
  • Known for
    Triumph of the Will
    1935
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Updated 2026-09-07

He supplied the intellectual architecture for Nazi racial theory and Eastern expansion — then supervised the genocide that followed from it. Convicted at Nuremberg of crimes against humanity, he was hanged in 1946.

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Alfred Ernst Rosenberg was a Baltic German who entered Hitler's orbit through Dietrich Eckart and became the party's chief ideologue. His 1930 book The Myth of the Twentieth Century laid out core Nazi doctrine: racial hierarchy, hatred of Jews, the demand for Lebensraum, rejection of Versailles, and contempt for "degenerate" art and traditional Christianity. He edited the party newspaper Völkischer Beobachter, led the NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs from 1933 to 1945, and ran Amt Rosenberg, the regime's cultural surveillance apparatus. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union, he became head of t…

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Alfred Rosenberg
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Fate will not be confined by paragraphs.
On the limitations of written constitutions, 1946. "Memoirs" - Page 190 - by Alfred Rosenberg.
Alfred Rosenberg
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The war which is being waged today by the German armed forces under the highest command of Adolf Hitler is a war of an immense reform.
“The Jewish Question as a World Problem,”, Radio Broadcast, 28 March 1941. Quoted in Roderick Stackelberg, Sally A. Winkle, The Nazi
Alfred Rosenberg
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...ignoring the potential force possessed by a homogeneous race, bemused by the slogans of human equality, all parliaments adopted the dogma of infinite toleration.
"The Russian-Jewish Revolution", Auf Gut Deutsch magazine, February 1919. Quoted in Roderick Stackelberg, Sally A. Winkle, The Nazi Germany
Alfred Rosenberg
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The gullible European has only too credulously listened to these temptations, sung to the lyrics of the sirens' song—freedom, justice, brotherhood.
"The Russian-Jewish Revolution", Auf Gut Deutsch magazine, February 1919. Quoted in Roderick Stackelberg, Sally A. Winkle, The Nazi Germany
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From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations. We are the transition from one education to the other.
Quoted in Chapter 13, Part 3 of "The Face Of The Third Reich" by Joachim C. Fest.
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