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	Robert Ley
		Following the war, Ley returned to Germany and in 1920 was employed by the I.G. Farben chemical conglomerate.
		As head of the DAF Ley became the “undisputed dictator of labor” in Germany and succeeded in building a mass organization of 25 million members.
		At the time of his capture, Ley was posing as Dr. Ernst Distelmeyer, but he was identified by Franz Xaver Schwarz, the former treasurer of the Nazi Party and one of Ley's oldest enemies.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/ley.html (212 words)

	Robert Ley
		Robert Ley (February 15, 1890 - October 26, 1945) was a prominent government figure in Nazi Germany.
		At the end of WW II Reichsleiter Ley fled to Berchtesgaden but was captured on May 16, 1945 and sent to trial at Nuremberg.
		But he committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell before the trial proper could begin, "Robert Ley, the field marshal of the battle against labor, answered our indictment with suicide.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ro/Robert_Ley.html (291 words)

	Ley
		Robert Ley was leader of the German Labour Front from 1933 to 1945, who in Mai 1942 declared: "It is not enough to isolate the Jewish enemy of mankind, the Jews have got to be exterminated.."
		Robert Ley was made head of the German workers' front after Hitler's accession to power.
		Ley attempted to poison himself at the time of his capture but was thwarted by an Allied soldier who knocked the bottle out of Ley's hand.
	www.auschwitz.dk /henchmen/ley.htm (295 words)

	Biographie: Robert Ley, 1890-1945
		Februar: Robert Ley wird als Sohn eines wohlhabenden Bauern in Niederbreidenbach (Rheinland) geboren.
		Ley erhält eine Anstellung bei den Bayer-Werken in Leverkusen.
		Ley wird Mitglied der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP).
	www.dhm.de /lemo/html/biografien/LeyRobert/index.html (346 words)

	Lazarettschiff B (Robert Ley)
		Robert Ley as a Hospital Ship "B" in 1939/40
		May, 1939 The Robert Ley sailed with the KdF ships Stuttgart, Der Deutsche, Wilhelm Gustloff, and Sierra Cordoba, and the non-KdF ship Oceana.
		May 30, 1939 The ships, including the Robert Ley, arrived in German waters and were escorted into Hamburg harbor by a number of German vessels, including the yacht Hamburg and the armoured ships Admiral Graf Spee and Admiral Scheer.
	www.feldgrau.com /hs-robertley.html (274 words)

	Robert Ley
		Robert Ley nacque il 15 febbraio 1890 Niederheimbach, nel Rheinland.
		Come capo della DAF Robert Ley si trovò alla testa della più grande organizzazione di massa della Germania nazista.
		Insieme a Todt prima e a Speer dopo, Ley si occupò di fornire lavoro alla macchina bellica nazista anche attraverso lo sfruttamento della manodopera straniera e di quella resa schiava nei campi di concentramento.
	www.olokaustos.org /bionazi/leaders/ley.htm (328 words)

	Robert Ley Summary
		Robert Ley was a devoted member of the German Nazi Party in the 1930s and served Adolph Hitler by breaking up the trade unions and incorporating them into the German Labor Front.
		Robert Ley (February 15, 1890 – October 25, 1945) was a prominent Nazi figure in the Third Reich.
		In a slip of irony, Robert Ley was completely oblivious to the existence of the Nazi party, until the trial of Adolf Hitler in 1924.
	www.bookrags.com /Robert_Ley (1193 words)

	Hitler's Henchmen, Robert Ley
		Robert Ley was leader of the German Labour Front from 1933 to 1945, who in Mai 1942 declared: "It is not enough to isolate the Jewish enemy of mankind, the Jews have got to be exterminated.."
		Robert Ley was made head of the German workers' front after Hitler's accession to power.
		Ley attempted to poison himself at the time of his capture but was thwarted by an Allied soldier who knocked the bottle out of Ley's hand.
	www.shoah.dk /Henchmen/jpg_rley.htm (207 words)

	Two Extremely Anti-Semitic Nazi Books
		Robert Ley, Reichsorganisationsleiter and DAF Reichsleiter explains how the German people under the guidance of Adolf Hitler went from being an unimportant country to a force to be reckoned with by 1940, when this book was published by Verlag der deutschen Arbeitsfront in Berlin.
		Robert Ley, Reichsorganisationsleiter and DAF Reichsleiter, was the man who established the Ordensburgen, made the Volkswagen and developed countless building projects throughout the Greater German Reich, from the time of his service in World War I through May 1945.
		Ley was one of the principal figures of the Nazi Party and an early NSDAP cabinet member in 1933.
	www.usmbooks.com /anti_jewish_nazi_books.html (1396 words)

	Robert Ley : Nazi Germany
		Robert Ley, the son of poor peasants, was born in Niederbreidenbach, on 15th February, 1890.
		Robert Ley, by profession a chemist, took me along in his special railroad car to a meeting in Sonthofen held in the autumn of 1944.
		Ley, the stammering drunkard who is the chief of the German Labor Front.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERley.htm (757 words)

	Das Erste - SPEER UND ER - Biographie Robert Ley
		Von 1921 ab arbeitete Ley als Chemiker bei den Bayer-Werken in Leverkusen, bis er seine Stellung wegen eines antisemitischen Angriffs auf einen Aufsichtsrat verlor.
		Ley trat 1923 in die Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP).ein und wurde 1925 Führer des Gaues Rheinland-Süd, 1928 hauptamtlicher Organisationsleiter der NSDAP im Gau Köln-Aachen, Mitherausgeber der Parteizeitung "Westdeutscher Beobachter", Mitglied des Preußischen Landtages und 1930 Reichstagsabgeordneter.
		Robert Leys DAF war mit bis zu 25 Millionen Mitgliedern die größte Massenorganisation des nationalsozialistischen Deutschland.
	www.wdr.de /tv/speer_und_er/02Nuernberg01BioLey08.phtml (326 words)

	TGOL - Robert Ley
		Examining the engine rooms of the Robert Ley and Wilhelm Gustloff, one would soon discover that they were fitted with quite modest engines, as their all-out cruising services did not require high speeds.
		Like her sister, the Robert Ley would remain in this role until the early weeks of 1945, although she was briefly used as a transport for sick and wounded in July 1944.
		In January the Robert Ley’s sister ship Wilhelm Gustloff was lost when she was sunk by a submarine in the Baltic Sea, taking with her more than 5,000 people.
	www.greatoceanliners.net /robertley.html (1244 words)

	Motions, Rulings and Explanatory Material
		The number had been reduced by the suicide of Robert Ley and by the Tribunal's severance of Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach from the proceedings.
		Pending the opening of the trial on 20th November 1945 the defendants were held in the prison at the Palace of Justice in Nurnberg, under the custody of the United States Army.
		Ley had ripped the hemmed edge from a towel, twisted it, soaked it in water, and fashioned it into a crude noose which he fastened to an-overhead toilet flush pipe.
	www.nizkor.org /hweb/imt/nca/nca-01/nca-01-04-motions.html (478 words)

	Trial Watch : Robert Ley
		Robert Ley was born into a farming family on 15 February 1890 in Niederbreidenbach.
		Robert Ley was accused of having taken advantage of his various functions, his personal influence and his close contacts with Hitler to promote the accession to power of the Nazi conspirators and the control over Germany as set forth in Count One of the Indictment, and for contributing to the preparations for war.
		In addition, Ley authorized, directed and participated in the War Crimes set forth in Count Three of the Indictment, and in the Crimes against Humanity set forth in Count Four of the Indictment, particularly in relation to the abuse of human beings for labor in conduct of the aggressive wars.
	www.trial-ch.org /en/trial-watch/profile/db/facts/robert_ley_66.html (448 words)

	Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board: Why Robert Ley?
		Robert Ley was the leader of the DAF party, and in turn, had a ship named after him, and although it has nothing to do with ships, I would like to know how a person with an English name ound up in the Nazi Party.
		I notice that in Bonn there is a Robert Ley who sells fashionable clothing, so maybe the name is fairly common.
		Another famous German "Robert" was Robert Schumann, the composer.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /discus/messages/6937/47843.html?1114984572 (716 words)

	Robert_Ley - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
		Ley was born in Niederbreidenbach in Westphalia, the seventh of eleven children of a heavily indebted farmer, Friedrich Ley, and his wife Emilie (née Wald).
		Ley's drunkenness and erratic behaviour were less tolerated in wartime, and he was supplanted by Armaments Minister Fritz Todt and his successor Albert Speer as the czar of the German workforce (the head of the Organisation Todt (OT)).
		Ley was aware in general terms of the Nazi regime's programme of extermination of the Jews of Europe, but he played no direct part in it, apart from the violent rhetorical anti-Semitism of his public speeches.
	www.thewordbook.com /Robert_Ley (2220 words)

	Robert Ley
		Robert Ley (February 15, 1890 - October 25, 1945) was a prominent government figure in Nazi Germany.
		At the end of WW II Reichsleiter Ley fled to Berchtesgaden but was captured on May 16, 1945 and sent to trial at Nuremberg.
		But he committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell before the trial proper could begin; "Robert Ley, the field marshal of the battle against labor, answered our indictment with suicide.
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/r/ro/robert_ley.html (248 words)

	Robert Ley at AllExperts
		Robert Ley (February 15, 1890 â" October 25, 1945) was a prominent Nazi figure in the Third Reich.
		In a slip of irony, Robert Ley was completely oblivious to the existence of the Nazi party, until the trial of Adolf Hitler in 1924.
		Ley's efforts to appeal to the workers through this program paid off, as party membership increased in such a dramatic manner that the employed working class had to be responsible.
	en.allexperts.com /e/r/ro/robert_ley.htm (700 words)

	Robert Ley - ZDNet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But Ley's lack of administrative ability meant that the NSBO leader, Reinhard Muchow, a member of the "socialist" wing of the Nazi Party, soon became the dominant figure in the DAF, overshadowing Ley.
		Nevertheless Ley was deeply implicated in the mistreatment of foreign slave workers.
		Ley was aware in general terms of the Nazi regime's programme of extermination of the Jews of Europe, but he played no direct part in it, apart from the violent rhetorical anti-Semitism of his public speeches.
	robert-ley.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Robert_Ley (750 words)

	Robert Ley - Antwoorden.org
		Robert Ley (Niederbeidenbach, 15 februari 1890 – Neurenberg, 25 oktober 1945) was een Nazi politicus
		Na de machtsovername van Adolf Hitler werd Ley benoemd tot leider van het Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF), de enige nog toegestane vakbond.
		Ley behoorde tot de uiterst radicale vleugel binnen de NSDAP die tot het einde wilde doorvechten.
	www.antwoorden.org /Robert-Ley (193 words)

	Burness Genealogy and Family History - Person Page 106
		Robert Ley was baptized on 9 June 1782 in Cairnton, Fordoun, Kincardineshire, Scotland.
		He was the son of Robert Ley and Margaret Burness.
		She was the daughter of Robert Ley and Margaret Burness.
	www.burness.ca /p106.htm (434 words)

	Robert Ley
		In 1933, after all German trade unions were dissolved, Robert Ley (1890-1945) established the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF; German Labor Front).
		As head of the DAF, whose membership totaled 25 million, Ley was known as the "undisputed dictator of labor" in Germany.
		Ley was indicated on counts one, three, and four (conspiracy, war crimes, and crimes against humanity).
	www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007118 (115 words)

	Burness Genealogy and Family History - Person Page 509
		She was the daughter of Robert Kemp and Isabella Burness.
		She was the daughter of David Ley and Isobel Burness.
		She married David Ley, son of William Ley and Elizabeth Bruce, on 10 July 1772 in Fordoun, Kincardineshire, Scotland.
	www.burness.ca /p509.htm (362 words)

	Labor Allocation During the Third Reich
		Robert Ley (1890-1945) An early member of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), Ley was long a rival of Gring and Goebbels.
		Ten days earlier, on April 21, 1933, however, a secret memo from Ley authorized SA and SS troops on May 2nd to occupy all trade union buildings, confiscate union funds and place union leaders in protective custody.
		During this time, the DAF, directed by Ley throughout the Third Reich, was not an advocate of labor, but rather attempted to divert attention of the masses of workers through a series of recreational and leisure time activities.
	faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu /sociology/witte/arbeit/ab02cd.html (245 words)

	CHAPTER IV - MOTIONS, RULINGS, AND EXPLANATORY MATERIAL RELATING TO CERTAIN OF THE DEFENDANTS
		The number had been reduced by the suicide of Robert Ley and by the Tribunal's severance of Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach from the proceedings.
		Ley had ripped the hemmed edge from a towel, twisted it, soaked it in water, and fashioned it into a crude noose which he fastened to an overhead toilet flush pipe.
		When he seated himself, strangulation was produced, and Robert Ley had succeeded in accomplishing his exit from the court of judgment, and from the world of living men.
	fundamentalbass.home.mindspring.com /c1526.htm (467 words)

	Critical Illness Insurance (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ley, who has spent his entire professional career (30+ years) in the insurance industry, is a published author and has spoken at numerous industry meetings on the topic of critical illness insurance.
		Robert Hunter, a former Texas state insurance commissioner and now director of insurance for the Consumer Federation of America, commented, “The purchasers tend to be people with less financial service sophistication and less coverage availability who are being told that one out of three families are affected by cancer.
		Robert Munao, chairman of the Council for Employee Benefits Executives and president of Kaye Consulting Group, recalls observing critical illness presentations where fear played a large role in the sales process.
	info.insure.com /health/criticalillness.htm (1171 words)

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	Re: Mussolini's "Corporatism"
		>- >- Here is part of an essay by Dr. Robert Ley: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ley "Robert Ley (February 15, 1890 - October 26, 1945) was a prominent government figure in Nazi Germany.
		.....snip "At the end of WW II Reichsleiter Robert Ley fled to Berchtesgaden but was captured on May 16, 1945 and sent to trial at Nuremberg.
		While awaiting trial in Nuremberg Ley wrote a statement denouncing Anti-Semitism and then hanged himself in his cell on 25th October, 1945....
	www.talkaboutinvestments.com /group/sci.econ/messages/192241.html (860 words)

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