When whistleblowers reveal wrongdoings, they jeopardize their reputation and profession and, in extreme cases, their lives. Thanks to their sacrifice, we can learn about significant scandals—sometimes gruesome in nature. Whistleblowers may lead to justice and punishment for those who have committed wrongdoing, and they deserve praise and recognition. Here are 10 things we only know about because of whistleblowers.
One of the earliest discoveries of the Nazi’s covert crimes and wrongdoings came from Herbert von Bose, the chief of Adolf Hitler’s conservative Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen’s publicity section. He used his insider status to alert the international press about the Nazi government’s hidden horrors and misdeeds.
Herbert von Bose was born on March 16, 1893, in the German-occupied Alsace-Lorraine city of Strasbourg. During World War I, he served as an intelligence officer in the Imperial German Army. During his time in the military, Herbert von Bose despised Adolf Hitler, the vulgar rabble-rouser, and his fascist Nazi Party. He leaked information to the London-based muckraking publication The Week to alert the international public of the government’s shady activities.
To silence him, the Nazi Party ordered a team of S.S. men to his office on June 30, 1934, and shot him in the head. Herbert von Bose was one of the individuals condemned to death by Hitler during the Night of the Long Knives, the Nazi Party’s...
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