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Martin Mutschmann

1879–1947 · 20th century

Martin Mutschmann was a German textile manufacturer and Nazi official, Gauleiter of Saxony from 1925 and Reich governor of Saxony from 1933 to 1945. He controlled the state government, persecuted political opponents and Jews and failed to prepare Dresden's air-raid defences. Captured by the Soviets in 1945, he was executed in Moscow in 1947.

Martin Mutschmann
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Free State of Saxony

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