Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg enjoyed his role as an intellectual and chief ideologist of the National Socialists. This very fact made him particularly unpopular within the NS leadership elite. Intrigues and competitive behavior increased when Hitler appointed him as the Führer's representative for overseeing the entire intellectual and ideological training and education of the NSDAP, and Rosenberg claimed extensive rights in almost all areas for himself. With the Einsatzstab named after him and as Reich Minister for the occupied Eastern territories, he was primarily involved in the widespread plundering of art and cultural assets across Europe. Until his execution in 1946, he remained true to his anti-Semitic fundamental beliefs. In light of the numerous positions held by Rosenberg and the extensive documentation - including the diaries found in 2013 - Volker Koop focuses on Rosenberg's unwavering ideological thinking in his biography and highlights the discrepancy between his exaggerated egomania and his actual influence.