On this date, April 6, 1947, Nazi Agronomist, Herbert Backe committed suicide before he could be tried for war crimes at Nuremberg.
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Herbert Backe |
Herbert Friedrich Wilhelm Backe (1 May 1896 – 6 April 1947) was a German Nazi politician and Obergruppenführer in the SS.
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Soviet POWs standing before a barracks in Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria. |