SHOTS IN KÖNIGSALLEE: DEATH OF WALTHER RATHENAU
Today in Berlin: 24 June, 1922
On this day in 1922, Walther Rathenau - German Minister for Foreign Affairs appointed in February the same year - was assassinated by members of the ultra-nationalist terror group, Organisation Consul, established by Hermann Ehrhardt after the Freikorps (right-wing paramilitary militia troops consisting primarily of conservative and Kaisertreue First World War veterans) had been banned.
