Das Monster aus dem Schrank debut album by German deathcore duo We Butter the Bread with Butter performed a song based on this.
Backe was held in American custody and was due to be tried for war crimes at Nuremberg in the Ministries Trial.
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Backe was born in Batumi, Georgia, the son of a retired Prussian lieutenant turned trader.
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Like Stuckart, who held the real power in the Interior Ministry (officially led by Wilhelm Frick) and Wilhelm Ohnesorge in the Reichspostministry (officially led by the conservative Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach), Backe was the de facto Minister of Agriculture under Richard Walther Darré, even before his promotion to that post.