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were convicted, Rahn was at first listed as one of the German diplomats who should be prosecuted. On 31 October 1945, a report on Rahn was filed which resulted in his being held for further investigations. Between 27 May and 4 December 1947 he was interrogated eight times. On 7 June 1949 he was
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Mussolini had no control over the affairs of the italian social
Republic, a police state run with Italian collaborators by the Nazi proconsul, Rudolf Rahn, and the army commander,
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After a brief return to his old post at the German embassy in Paris, in August 1943 Rahn was sent as German
Ambassador to Rome, where he was at the centre of efforts to discourage
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as a puppet regime in northern Italy, Rahn was German
Plenipotentiary to the new republic, wielding real power, having been appointed in September 1943 by a specific order of
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in Class V (exonerated), especially in view of his argument that through diplomatic channels he had saved about 1,800 people who had been taken prisoner by the
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of the SS had been ordered to arrest the Jews of the city and take them to Upper Italy, "where they are to be liquidated", and that the commandant of Rome,
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October 1943. On 6 October Friedrich Möllhausen sent a message to
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and later ordered that Rahn and Möllhausen be informed "that by a Führer
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had existed, but that all documents relating to it had been destroyed or lost. Rahn wrote to Graham
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at the end of the war. While in prison for four years, he wrote on
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Akten zur deutschen Auswärtigen Politik, Serie E: 1941-45
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