Thursday, April 6, 2017

THE ARCHITECT OF THE HUNGER PLAN: HERBERT BACKE (1 MAY 1947 TO 6 APRIL 1947)



            70 years ago on this date, April 6, 1947, Nazi Agronomist, Herbert Backe committed suicide before he could be tried for war crimes at Nuremberg. 

  

Herbert Backe
Herbert Friedrich Wilhelm Backe (1 May 1896 – 6 April 1947) was a German Nazi politician and Obergruppenführer in the SS.

  

Soviet POWs standing before a barracks in Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria.

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