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Wilhelm Kube (13 November 1887 – 22 September 1943) was a German politician and Nazi official. He was an important figure in the German Christian movement during the early years of Nazi rule. During the war he became a senior official in the occupying government of the Soviet Union achieving the rank of Generalkommissar for Weissruthenien (Belarus). He was assassinated in Minsk in 1943 triggering brutal reprisals against the citizens of Minsk.