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Assassination of Walther Rathenau

Germany · Government / Weimar Republic. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1922Date range
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Chronological records

1922

Walther Rathenau24 June 1922

Berlin · Government / Weimar Republic

Is assassinated by members of the right-wing Organisation Consul while travelling from his Grunewald home to the Foreign Office.

Names involved

Walther Rathenau

Provenance

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