'' SS-Oberführer'' Ernst Boepple (30 November 1887 – 15 December 1950) was a

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official and SS officer, serving as deputy to

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during World War II and

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, who was executed for war crimes.

Life

Boepple earned his '' Abitur'' in 1905 at the Gymnasium in

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. Then he studied languages and history at several universities:

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, and the

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and earned his PhD in 1915.—with the doctoral thesis: ''

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's Relation to

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''. He fought in the

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in the infantry and left the German Army with the rank of

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(''Oberleutnant'') in 1919.

Director of Nazi publishing enterprise

Boepple became a co-worker of the publisher Julius Friedrich Lehmann and was one of the founders of the

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(DAP). In 1919 he took over the ''Deutsche Volksverlag'' publishing house, which had been established by Lehmann. There he published

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's ''My Political Awakening''. The ''Deutsche Volksverlag'' published a large section of the early formative Nazi literature including: * Wilhelm Meister: ''Jewry's debt-book - a German accounting'', 1919 (Judas Schuldbuch - eine deutsche Abrechnung) * Minister Karl Gerecke: ''Biblical anti-Semitism: Jewry's character in world history, guilt and the end in prophet Jona's reflection'', 1920 (Biblischer Antisemitismus. Der Juden weltgeschichtlicher Charakter, Schuld und Ende in des Propheten Jona Judenspiegel) * Maria Groener: ''

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and the Jews'', 1920 (Schopenhauer und die Juden) * Dr. Hans Grunsky: '' Richard Wagner and the Jews'', 1920 (Richard Wagner und die Juden) *

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: ''Immorality in the Talmud'', 1920 (Unmoral im Talmud) * Emil Kloth: ''Soul searching - Reflections of a social democratic trade unionist about the politics of social democracy'', 1920 (Einkehr - Betrachtungen eines sozialdemokratischen Gewerkschaftlers über die Politik der deutschen Sozialdemokratie) * Dr. Paul Tafel: ''The new Germany. A socialist state on a national foundation'', 1920 (Das neue Deutschland. Ein Rätestaat auf nationaler Grundlage) * Fridrich Andersen (one of the founders of the

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): ''The German Saviour'', 1921 (Der deutsche Heiland) *

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, Otto von Kursell: ''Austria under Jewry's star'', ''Russia's gravedigger'', 1921 (Österreich unter Judas Stern, Totengräber Russlands) * Dr. Max Maurenbrecher: ''

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and the Jews'', 1921 (Goethe und die Juden) * Dr. Alfred Falb: ''

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and the Jews'', 1921 (Luther und die Juden) * Hugo Christoph Meyer: ''The Jew and his Slavery'', 1921 (Der Jude und sein Sklaventum) * Ottokar Stauf von der March: ''Jewry in the Opinions of the Ages'', 1921 (Die Juden im Urteil der Zeiten) * Otto Armin: ''The Jews in the War-Business and the War-Economics'', 1921 (Die Juden in den Kriegs-Gesellschaften und in der Kriegs-Wirtschaft) *

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: ''

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and the Jews'', 1922 (Hebbel und die Juden) * Alfred Rosenberg: ''Being, principles, and goals of the National Socialist German Worker's Party'', 1922 (Wesen, Grundsätze und Ziele der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei) * Dr. Albrecht Wirth: ''Crosswise our present time'', 1922 (Quer durch die Gegenwart) * Alfred Rosenberg: ''The Plague in Russia.

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, its heads, henchmen, and victims'', 1922 (Pest in Russland. Der Bolschewismus, seine Häupter, Handlanger und Opfer) * Alfred Rosenberg: ''Bolshevism, hunger, death'', 1922 (Bolschewismus, Hunger, Tod) In November 1923 Ernst Boepple took part in the Beer Hall Putsch.

World War II

When

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died after an aircraft crash, Boepple became the

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n Minister for Culture until the

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in 1939. In 1940 he again served in the military. On 1 September 1941 he was appointed the State Secretary of the General Government in

, serving as deputy to Deputy Governor

. Boepple was deeply implicated in the

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as the deputy to Bühler and also held rank in the SS, being an ''SS-

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'' (senior colonel). Several months after Germany's surrender, Boepple was arrested by U.S. soldiers in

. He was extradited to Poland in 1947, where he was sentenced to death by a Polish court on 14 December 1949. Boepple and

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on 15 December 1950.

Publications

*''Friedrich des Großen Verhältnis zu Württemberg'' (i.e. Frederick the Great's Relation to Württemberg), Dissertation, C. A. Seyfried, 1915 *''Die Judenfrage und der deutsche Buchhandel'' (i.e. The Jewish Question and the German book trade), Deutscher Volksverlag, 1920 *''Zwischen Front und Heimat: Zum Vierjahrestag des Generalgouvernements'' (i.e. Between Front and Homeland: Fourth Anniversary of the General Government), Pressechef d. Regierg d. Generalgouvernements, 1943

References

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