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Robert Ley

1890–1945 · 20th century

Robert Ley was a Nazi politician who headed the German Labour Front from 1933 to 1945, after the trade unions were dissolved, and was the party's Reich organisation leader. He founded the Strength Through Joy leisure organisation. Indicted at the Nuremberg trials, he hanged himself in his cell in October 1945 before the trial began.

Robert Ley
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