Hermann Rauschning
German politician
Died when: 94 years 185 days (1134 months)Star Sign: Leo
Hermann Adolf Reinhold Rauschning (7 August 1887 – February 8, 1982) was a German politician and author, adherent of the Conservative Revolution movement who briefly joined the Nazi movement before breaking with it.
He was the President of the Senate (head of government and chief of state) of the Free City of Danzig from 1933 to 1934.
In 1934, he renounced Nazi Party membership and in 1936 emigrated from Germany.He eventually settled in the United States and began openly denouncing Nazism.
Rauschning is chiefly known for his book Gespräche mit Hitler ("Conversations with Hitler", American title: Voice of Destruction, British title: Hitler Speaks) in which he claimed to have had many meetings and conversations with Adolf Hitler.
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