''Das Amt und die Vergangenheit: Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik'' (The Ministry and the Past: German Diplomacy in the Third Reich and the Federal Republic) is an 880-page report released by the
German Foreign Office
, logo = DEgov-AA-Logo en.svg
, logo_width = 260 px
, image = Auswaertiges Amt Berlin Eingang.jpg
, picture_width = 300px
, image_caption = Entrance to the Foreign Office building
, headquarters = Werderscher Mark ...
and published b
Karl Blessing Verlagon October 28, 2010. The report establishes that the Foreign Office was deeply involved in the
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...
.
History
The report was commissioned by former Foreign Minister
Joschka Fischer
Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer (born 12 April 1948) is a German retired politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens. He served as the foreign minister and as the vice-chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005. Fis ...
in 2005 and prepared for German Foreign Minister
Guido Westerwelle
Guido Westerwelle (; 27 December 1961 – 18 March 2016) was a German politician who served as Foreign Minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice-Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011, being the first openly gay person ...
. The report's findings were to be incorporated into training for future German diplomats.
The report has been published commercially, going on sale before it was delivered to Westerwelle
and available for €34,95 at some exchanges.
As of March 2012, over 75,000 copies of the report had been sold, an unusually high number for a history book that occupies such a specialized niche.
Some as such
TIME
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...
magazine's Berlin correspondent have questioned why it took the German government 65 years to release this report, suggesting there was a widespread cover-up of the diplomats' role in the "Final Solution".
Were German Diplomats Complicit in the Holocaust?
Tristana More. ''TIME'' magazine. October 27, 2010. Retrieved October 28, 2010
References
{{Authority control
Federal Foreign Office