German agronomist and politician (born 1896)

Herbert Backe

Herbert Friedrich Wilhelm Backe was a German politician and SS-Obergruppenführer who served as State Secretary and Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture. He was a doctrinaire racial ideologue, a long-time associate of Richard Walther Darré and a personal friend of Reinhard Heydrich. He developed and implemented the Hunger Plan that envisioned death by starvation of tens of millions of Slavic and Jewish "useless eaters" following Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union.

Born

1896

May 1

Died

1947

Era

1890s

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Herbert, in brief

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1947 Died

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The world in 1947

When Herbert departed

april 1 The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
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april 16 Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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