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since 1927, formed the Circle after Hitler's request in 1932 for the formation of a "study group on economic questions". Members were not initially expected to be party members (though many later joined the party), and portrayed the group as
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in 1949. Rasche was released from prison in 1950, while Keppler was released in February 1951.
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The Respectable Career of Fritz K.: The Making and Remaking of a Provincial Nazi Leader
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were sentenced to 10 years and 7 years in prison, respectively following the
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and business and industry. The group was formed and co-ordinated by
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industrialists whose aim was to strengthen the ties between the
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were sentenced to 7 years and 5 years, respectively, at the
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for defleshing and ultimately public display by Professor
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were both executed in 1951, after being convicted at the
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Index

Freundeskreis Reichsführer SS
Keppler
German
Nazi Party
Wilhelm Keppler
Adolf Hitler

Wilhelm Keppler
NSDAP
palaver
Heinrich Himmler
Ahnenerbe
Aryan
eugenicist
Jewish skull collection
Auschwitz
Zyklon B
Natzweiler concentration camp
Reichsuniversität Straßburg
August Hirt
Friedrich Flick
aryanization

Friedrich Flick
Nuremberg Trials

Heinrich Bütefisch
Monowitz

Otto Ohlendorf

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