Otto Abetz helped found the Hitler Jugend, served as private secretary to Joachim von Ribbentrop, then in 1935 began a good-will job in France. Some Frenchmen found him an engaging fellow: he had an ...
The trial of Otto Abetz, Hitler’s ambassador to Paris, started here today in a heavily-guarded military court with two officers reading an 84-page indictment charging him, among other things, with ...
A former Australian government minister confirmed a family relative was Hitler’s Nazi ambassador to Vichy, France. Eric Abetz, a German-born Liberal Party senator from Tasmania, told a news ...
The story, like so many others of the mid-20th Century, came to its end in a courtroom. But its beginnings were more auspicious. It began, more or less, on that day in 1926 when the Nobel Peace Prize ...
Between June 1940 and August 1944, Otto Abetz, German ambassador in Paris, and Fernand de Brinon, ambassador of the Vichy regime in Paris, met almost daily and developed official collaboration between ...