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Walther Kadow

Walther Kadow

German schoolteacher and murder victim

Walther Kadow (January 29, 1860 – May 31, 1923[1]) was a German school teacher who was beaten and killed by Rudolf Höss and a group of Nazi Party accomplices in May 1923 in the forest near Parchim.[2] Kadow, a World War I veteran, was a member of the right-wing German Völkisch Freedom Party, and was suspected of having betrayed German nationalist Albert Leo Schlageter to the French occupation authorities in the Ruhr. Schlageter was executed by the French and was later regarded as a martyr by the Nazis. Höss received a ten-year sentence but was released after four years under a general amnesty. His accomplice, Martin Bormann, a former student of Kadow, was sentenced to one year.[3][4][5]

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Bormann later became Head of the Nazi Party Chancellery and private secretary to Adolf Hitler and received the Blood Order for his imprisonment over the murder.[6] Höss later became the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp.

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    "Mai 1923 - Ereignisse - Chroniknet". Chroniknet (in German). Retrieved 2017-01-12.
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    Schönpflug, Daniel (2018). "Chapter Six: The End of the Beginning". A World on Edge: The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age. London, United Kingdom: Pan Macmillan. p. 264. ISBN 9781509818525 – via Google Books.
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    Wilson, James (2012). "The Nazi Leaders". The Nazis' Nuremberg Rallies. Barsley, United Kingdom: Pen & Sword Books. p. 145. ISBN 9781781599006 – via Google Books.
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    Chen, C. Peter (1 November 2010). "Rudolf Höss". World War II Database (WW2DB). Lava Development, LLC. LCCN 2011214255. Archived from the original on 27 January 2022.
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    Lisciotto, Carmelo (2007). Lisciotto, Carmelo; Webb, Chris (eds.). "Martin Bormann: "The Brown Eminence"". Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team (HEART). Archived from the original on 25 February 2021.
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    Chaloner, John Seymour; Augstein, Rudolf, eds. (27 February 1962). "Pferd ohne Sonntag" [Horse without Sunday]. Der Spiegel (in German) (9). Hamburg, Germany: Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG: S42–S50. ISSN 0038-7452.


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