1. Max Amann was a high-ranking member of the Nazi Party, a German politician, businessman and art collector, including of looted art.
15 Facts About Max Amann
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Max Amann was the first business manager of the Nazi Party and later became the head of, the official Nazi Party publishing house.
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Max Amann was sentenced to ten years in a labour camp and stripped of his property, pension rights, and virtually all of his fortune.
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Max Amann was released from custody in 1953, and died in poverty in Munich four years later.
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Max Amann then enlisted in the 1st Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment in October 1912.
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Max Amann was Adolf Hitler's company sergeant, and was thus an early acquaintance of Hitler long before his rise to prominence in German politics.
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Max Amann was awarded the Iron Cross second class during the war.
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Max Amann joined the Nazi Party in October 1921, as the Party's first business manager, and held NSDAP membership number 3.
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Max Amann took part in the November 1923 Beer Hall Putsch and in April 1924 was sentenced to four-and-a-half months in Landsberg Prison.
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The book became a major source of Eher-Verlag's income and Max Amann oversaw the book through many editions.
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Max Amann published the daily Volkischer Beobachter, the weekly Illustrierter Beobachter and the Nation zialistische Monatshefte.
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Also on that day, Max Amann was elected to the Reichstag from electoral constituency 24, Upper Bavaria-Swabia.
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Max Amann joined the SS on 15 March 1932 with the rank of SS-Gruppenfuhrer, was promoted to SS-Obergruppenfuhrer on 30 January 1936 and was assigned to the staff of the Reichsfuhrer-SS.
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Max Amann pursued a dual-pronged strategy to establish Nazi control over the press industry.
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Max Amann was released in 1953, but was stripped of his property, pension rights and practically all of his fortune.