Otto Friedrich Abetz[1] (26 March 1903 – 5 May 1958) was a German diplomat, a Nazi official and a convicted war criminal during World War II.
Abetz joined the Nazi Party and the SA in the early 1930s later becoming a member of the SS. Abetz played a significant role in strengthening ties between Nazi Germany and Vichy France during World War II. In 1940, after the German occupation of France, he was appointed German ambassador to France. Abetz played a significant role in strengthening ties between Nazi Germany and the collaborationist Vichy government.
Abetz played a significant role in facilitating the persecution and deportation of Jews by the Nazi regime from France during the Holocaust. After Germany's defeat in 1945, Abetz was captured and later stood trial at the Nuremberg Trials. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He was released in 1954 due to health reasons and died in a car crash in 1958.
Otto Friedrich Abetz (26 March 1903 – 5 May 1958) was a German diplomat, a Nazi official and a convicted war criminal during World War II. Abetz joined...
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strained when the head of the French section of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop, OttoAbetz, was expelled from France following allegations that he had bribed two...
France–Allemagne (Franco-German Committee). Here he became friends with OttoAbetz, the future German ambassador to Paris during the occupation. In February...
Howard and Abbott governments. Abetz is the great-nephew of convicted Nazi war criminal, SS-Brigadeführer OttoAbetz, Nazi German ambassador to Vichy...
François Darlan represented the French and the German ambassador to France, OttoAbetz, represented the Nazis. Signed on 28 May 1941, the Paris Protocols granted...
In co-ordination with Ribbentrop's personal representative in Paris, OttoAbetz, Brinon headed the France–Germany Committee, which was designed to influence...
the country's European parts. On 16 September 1941, Hitler mentioned to OttoAbetz, the German ambassador in Paris, that "the new Russia as far as the Urals"...
"Fascist International". His friendship with the German ambassador in Paris, OttoAbetz, pre-dated the war. He was a member of the committee of the Groupe Collaboration...
racing driver. Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria Mauthner, Martin (2016). OttoAbetz and His Paris Acolytes: French Writers Who Flirted with Fascism, 1930–1945...
became friends with OttoAbetz, a "francophile" (who later became German Ambassador in Paris during World War II), in 1930, when Abetz was still living in...
Charles Huntziger. This caused friction with Hitler's representative OttoAbetz, who was furious about Vichy's insufficient collaboration, and closed...
benefit of the Axis powers. On 28 May 1941, the German ambassador in France OttoAbetz concluded an agreement with the French government, the Protocols of Paris...
BBC News. 7 November 2005. Retrieved 5 November 2010. Martin Mauthner. OttoAbetz and His Paris Acolytes: French Writers Who Flirted with Fascism, 1930–1945...
these negotiations were a disaster for the party, as Hitler disavowed OttoAbetz and Vichy was successfully able to oppose the legalization of the PCF...
died in 1951 Pierre Laval - Sentenced to death and executed in 1945 OttoAbetz – Sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment in 1949, appealed in 1952, released...
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