Word: tillessen
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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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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