Biography of alfred rosen

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German Nazi leader and writer.

In the eyes of posterity Alfred Rosenberg was the main theorist of National Socialism. His life is indeed an object lesson in the nature of Nazism as a historical phenomenon, as a belief system, and as a set of state policies.

Rosenberg was born in Reval (Tallinn), Estonia, into a well-to-do Volksdeutsche (ethnic German) family.

He thus belonged to one of those German minorities dispersed throughout the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires, whose destiny was a burning issue in the early part of the twentieth century.

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As a citizen of the Russian Empire, Rosenberg was not among the German populations deported at the beginning of World War I, and he completed his engineering and architectural studies in Moscow before fleeing the Russian Revolution of 1917.

He witnessed the outbursts of virulent Germanophobia in Russian cities, notably in Petrograd and Moscow. In his flight he passed through France, as did m