Born in Russia, Alfred Rosenberg was one of the leading ideologists of the Nazi Party who played a decisive role in shaping the Nazi philosophy. He had a dominating and arrogant personality with a fierce hatred for the Jewish community. Despite being well educated in architecture and engineering with a doctorate degree, he became a racist and joined Hitler’s party when he immigrated to Germany after the 1917 Russian Revolution. He was one of the main promoters of key Nazi ideological beliefs such as, the racial theory, persecution of the Jews, abrogation of the Treaty of Versailles, and other such creeds. He also played an important role in the development of Positive Christianity, a movement within Nazi Germany which blended ideas of racial purity and Nazi ideology with elements of Christianity. He influenced Nazi thinking on a wide range of subjects from music to religion but ultimately was captured by Allied troops at the end of the Second World War. He was convicted of planning and encouraging dreadful crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial. Like many of his followers, he was convicted as a war criminal and was hanged.