Walther Rathenau is assassinated
1922 · Event
Germany's Jewish foreign minister — industrialist, intellectual, the republic's most capable servant — is machine-gunned in his open car by nationalist officers. One of 350-plus political murders by the far right in Weimar's first years, almost all treated gently by the courts.
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