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Abetz, Otto

    Date of birth:
    March 26th, 1903 (Schwetzingen/Baden, Germany)
    Date of death:
    May 5th, 1958 (Langenfeld/Rhineland, Germany)
    Nationality:
    German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

    Biography

    1st August 1935: SS-Mitglieds-Nr. 253.314;
    1939: NSDAP Mitgliedsnummer 7.011.453;
    1940 - 1944: Deutscher Botschafter in Paris.
    Diesd on 5th May 1958 in a car accident on the highway Cologne-Düsseldorf in Langefeld.

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    Sources

    • Photo 1: USHMM
    • - Adamthwaite A., France and the Coming of the Second World War, London, Frank Cass, 1977

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