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Berthold Koehler

Berthold Koehler (17 June 1894 – 2 October 1968) was a Nazi Party member.

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Berthold Koehler was born on 17 June 1894 in Nurnburg, Bavaria, German Empire (present-day Nuremberg, Germany). Koehler served in World War I after graduating from the Army Staff College in 1906, and he served with the Imperial German Army as a Lieutenant in the artillery. After the end of the war, Koehler founded his own anti-Semitic society in Nuremberg that attracted several racist Germans, and he joined the Nazi Party in 1923. Koehler became a member of the Reichstag in the late 1920s, and he was a member of the city council of Nuremberg. He was arrested after World War II and forced to abandon his beliefs, and he died in 1968.

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