High-Ranking officials of the Third Reich
The Administrator of the Holocaust: Nazi State Secretary Josef Bühler
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He wasn’t a soldier. He never fired a shot. But his pen condemned millions.
As State Secretary of the General Government, Josef Bühler turned law into a weapon of genocide. From the corridors of Kraków’s Wawel Castle to the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, he served his master Hans Frank — and the machinery of the Final Solution.
At Nuremberg and later in Kraków, he faced the reckoning of history.
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