Kurt Blanke

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Kurt Blanke (18 November 1900 in Emden – 28 February 1997 in Celle) was a German lawyer and politician. From 1964 to 1973, he was mayor of the city of Celle in Lower Saxony. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

During World War II, he had a part in "Aryanization" in occupied France: shutting down Jewish businesses and giving the businesses to Aryans.[1][2][3]

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  1. Jungius, Martin; Seibel, Wolfgang (2008-12-01). "The Citizen as Perpetrator: Kurt Blanke and Aryanization in France, 1940–1944". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 22 (3): 441–474. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcn040. ISSN 8756-6583.
  2. "Der Bürger als Schreibtischtäter. Der Fall Kurt Blanke (The Bourgeois Dignitary as a Desk Murderer. The Case of Kurt Blanke) | Request PDF". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  3. Laub, Thomas J. (2010). After the Fall: German Policy in Occupied France, 1940-1944. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-953932-1.