Walther Rathenau assassination

Walther Rathenau assassination. On June 24, 1922, Walther Rathenau, Germany’s foreign minister, was assassinated in Berlin by right-wing extremists who opposed the Weimar Republic and his political policies. His murder shocked Germany, intensified an already dangerous political crisis, and exposed the growing threat posed by extremist organizations to the country’s fragile democracy. However, his Jewish…