Fritz Kranefuss
Friedrich Carl Arthur Kranefuß (19 October 1900 in
Third Reich
.
Kranefuss was on the board of Braunekohle-Benzin AG (Brabag), a conglomerate of chemical firms and collieries concerned with the production of synthetic fuel.[1] He joined the Nazi Party in 1932.[2]
He was one of three directors of the
Second World War.[1] Towards the end of the war Kranefuss, a well-connected international businessman, was also used by Himmler to open unofficial channels of contact with the Allies.[6]
At the war's end Kranefuss destroyed all the "Friends of Himmler" files and killed himself to keep its secrets.[7]
References
- ^ a b c Benjamin B. Ferencz, Less Than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation, Indiana University Press, 2002, p. 177
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Zweite aktualisierte Auflage, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 335
- ^ G.S. Graber, History of the SS, Diamond Books, 1994, p. 123
- ^ Gerald D. Feldman, Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933-1945, Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 104
- ^ Feldman, Allianz and the German Insurance Business, p. 340
- ^ Heinz Höhne, The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS, Penguin Books, 2000, p. 518
- ^ David Irving, "True Himmler", Focal Point, 2020, p. 228
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