Word: rathenau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operation, Feme courts resembled the Maffia, the Ku Klux Klan and the vigilantes. Secret sentences of its kangaroo courts lay behind 354 political murders committed between the 1918 armistice and June 24, 1922, the day Germany's Jewish Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau died at the hands of the Feme. For all its crimes, two Feme murderers received light sentences in the skittish Weimar courts; the rest were left alone...