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Wilhelm Frick

1877–1946 · 20th century

Wilhelm Frick was a leading Nazi politician. In 1930 he became interior minister of Thuringia, the first Nazi to hold a ministerial post in Germany, and from 1933 to 1943 he was Reich Minister of the Interior, drafting laws that centralised the state and the Nuremberg race laws. He was hanged after the Nuremberg trials.

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Free State of Thuringia

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