Word: tillessen
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...shrewdest post-War statesman, certainly became Germany's best hated man. As Secretary of State without Portfolio at the time of the Armistice, it was his melancholy duty not only to sign the Armistice but to persuade Germany that she had to accept the Versailles Treaty. Schultz and Tillessen, two Bavarian Nationalists acting under orders from German secret societies, murdered him in the Black Forest...
Exception: the assassins of Cabinet Ministers. This exception was especially inserted to prevent the return to Germany of great Matthias Erzberger's assassins, Schultz and Tillessen who, after murdering him on Aug. 26. 1921 escaped to Hungary. It was Herr Erzberger who signed the terms of Armistice handed him by Marshal Foch and became undeservedly "The Best Hated Man in Germany." As Chancellor of the Exchequer directly after the War, he wrested his country's railways from the numerous German states, established and coordinated the national railway of the Reich, today a model of speed and punctuality...
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