Adolf Wagner passionately propagated the extermination of the Jews and his atrocities went far beyond Nazi guidelines. A book shows how important unscrupulous guys like him were to the Nazi terror regime.
Adolf Wagner, NSDAP Gauleiter and Bavarian Minister of the Interior and Culture during the Nazi era, was a fanatical National Socialist, anti-Semite and power-monger of the worst kind. Terror, arbitrariness and disenfranchisement were among the preferred instruments of his exercise of power; he established networks where they were useful to him and he did not shy away from any devilry if it advanced his career. Political opponents had to fear for their lives, but he persecuted Jewish citizens most relentlessly, whose extermination he passionately advocated.