Alfred Rosenberg: Top Nazi Ideologue Executed at the Nuremberg Trials

World History: True Stories of the 20th Century · May 6, 2026 · 21m

Alfred Rosenberg was one of the chief ideologues of Nazi Germany whose racial theories helped shape the Holocaust and led to his execution after World War II. Alfred Rosenberg was one of the most influential ideologues of Nazi Germany—yet also one of its most destructive. Our documentary traces his rise from a Baltic German architecture student in the Russian Empire to the chief racial theorist of the Nazi regime and ultimately the Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories. A committed antisemite from an early age, Rosenberg helped spread the fabricated Protocols of the Elders of…