![Former Nazi Party ideologist Alfred Rosenberg at the International Military Tribunal war crimes trial. [LCID: 21517]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/be648bf4-7dea-46c7-b4e0-6a8cf66bf5b4.jpg)
Alfred Rosenberg (1893–1946) was a prominent Nazi ideologue who was partially responsible for the wartime annihilation of Soviet Jews and civilians. He held several titles, including head of the Nazi Party's foreign affairs department (1933) and Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories (1941). After the war, he was found guilty and hanged for his crimes: conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity; crimes against peace; war crimes; and crimes against humanity. Explore content related to Alfred Rosenberg during and after the Holocaust.
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![The defendants rise as the judges enter the courtroom at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. [LCID: 03548]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/ac9c088f-be8d-4098-b321-562357c7d831.jpg)
![Former Nazi Party ideologist Alfred Rosenberg at the International Military Tribunal war crimes trial. [LCID: 21517]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/714d7471-6ffb-40ef-b8ed-e46b034906e6.jpg)
![Defendant Alfred Rosenberg, the former Chief Nazi Party ideologist, reads a document during the International Military Tribunal trial ... [LCID: 10390]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/263a035c-935e-4bdd-979e-e4452e73e8a7.jpg)
![Alfred Rosenberg's 1923 commentary on the Protocols (this copy is the fourth edition) reinforced Nazi anti-Jewish ideology. [LCID: p0007]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/d14182f3-2039-4b60-8a59-a10ba305fe7e.jpg)
![Portrait of Alfred Rosenberg. One of a collection of portraits included in a 1939 calendar of Nazi officials. [LCID: 45232]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/cbd6aff8-51e5-4018-8493-d5f291a54d1f.jpg)
![Caricature of Nuremberg International Military Tribunal defendant Alfred Rosenberg, by the German newspaper caricaturist Peis. [LCID: 49543]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/a6bff622-09a1-4a3c-8e63-0b52be1e8e0b.jpg)
![Einsatzstab Rosenberg looted materials of Jewish culture like these books found stacked in the cellar of the Nazi Institute for ... [LCID: 81553]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/a0b77dc4-fc0d-4cb5-96cf-60e53ddfebd4.jpg)
