Otto Abetz (May 26 1903 - May 5 1958) was the German ambassador to Vichy France during World War II. Abetz was born in Schwetzingen. He matriculated in Karlsruhe, where he became an art teacher at a girls' school. He was interested French culture at an early age. In his twenties he started a Franco-German cultural group for youths, known as the Sohlberg Circle. An ardent Francophile, Abetz married a French woman, Susanne de Bruyker, in 1932. Wikipedia
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He publicly acknowledged that his great-uncle, Otto Abetz , was "heavily involved" in Hitler's Nazi regime in World War II and was a convicted Nazi war criminal. But Senator Abetz, 50, said his grandfather's brother had died just after he was born and th www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,23304634-5007221,00...
