[5] Schützinger noted that everywhere he went in Tübingen he saw photographs of Hitler and Erich Ludendorff prominently displayed "next to all kinds of antisemitic Germanic kitsch spat out by the metropolis" while "stubborn small-town professors" used their lectures to indoctrinate their students in the völkisch ideology.

[5] On 24 June 1922, the German foreign minister Walther Rathenau was assassinated by members of the Organisation Consul, which reviled him both as a Jew and a supposed contributor to "creeping communism" for having negotiated the Treaty of Rapallo with Soviet Russia.

However, the police investigation did establish that Jagow spent much of his time leading his students in paramilitary training for the Organization Consul, which appeared to be his primary duty at the university.

[7] After the failure of the Beer Hall Putsch at Munich in November 1923, Jagow left the NSDAP, but remained active in a number of völkisch groups in Württemberg.

[9] Starting in 1931, Jagow was engaged in a feud with Fritz Bauer, the Social Democratic judge who served as the chairman of the Stuttgart chapter of the Reichsbanner Rote-Schwartz-Gold.

[12] On 9 March 1933, Jagow founded a hilfspolizei (auxiliary police) that consisted of members of the SA, SS, and the Stahlhelm under the pretext that a Communist revolution was imminent in Württemberg.

[16] About 40 people who were held at Heuberg died as a result of beatings by the SA guards during Jagow's time as police commissioner, a fact that he proudly noted in his reports to Berlin.

[14] Jagow, who backed the losing side in the feud, was transferred to Frankfurt am Main as leader of the SA-Obergruppe V. On 27 June 1933, he was promoted to the rank of SA-Obergruppenführer and, on 14 September 1933, he was appointed a member of the recently reconstituted Prussian State Council.

[23] On the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Jagow resumed his active duty status in the Kriegsmarine with the rank of Korvettenkapitän, initially commanding the minesweeper Tannenberg in the Baltic Sea.

[30] Unlike the lebensraum, which was to be colonised with millions of German settlers while the indigenous peoples living there would be exterminated, expelled or enslaved, the ergänzungsraum were seen as a source of food, raw materials and manpower that would assist the Reich in its quest for "world power status".

[4] Besides for the "Jewish Question", Jagow's main duties in Budapest were to monitor the situation in Balkans, recruit Hungarian volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans) into the Waffen-SS and to ensure that Hungary kept supplying Germany with food.

Jagow favored closer links with the Arrow Cross movement, but was generally overruled by his superiors in the Auswärtiges Amt who preferred to stay on good terms with Admiral Miklos Horthy, the Regent of Hungary.

The Nazi Volksbund der Deutschen in Ungarn (People's League of Germans in Hungary), founded in 1938 had become the largest group in the Hungarian volkdeustche community, having between 150, 000–340, 000 members over the course of its existence.

[38] Contrary to their expectations, the Hungarian volksdeutsche who joined the Waffen-SS were not sent to the Eastern Front, but instead to anti-guerilla duties in the Balkans (a lowly task in the German military).

[39] Jagow did not see the change as important, writing in a report to Berlin: "Kállay is basically an apolitical person and has not been active in the last few years either in internal or foreign affairs.

[40] Jagow described Kállay in his reports to Ribbentrop as a proponent of what was known in Hungary as "civilized antisemitism" who favored social exclusion and discrimination as the solution to the "Jewish Question", but who deeply deplored violence.

[42] On 6 October 1942, Martin Luther, the diplomat in charge of the antisemitic polices in the Auswärtiges Amt, informed Jagow that his number one duty in Budapest was to impress upon the Hungarians that Hungary must do its part in the "Final Solution".

[43] Both Weizsäcker and Jagow made the same arguments in their respective meetings, saying the Führer was extremely unhappy with the Hungarian foot-dragging about the "Jewish Question", and that Hungary's place in the "New Order in Europe" would entirely depend upon Hitler's goodwill.

[44] Kállay told Jagow that the Hungarian peasants were not anti-semitic, and if the Jews were deported, demands would be raised for Hungary to solve the problem imposed by its volksdeutsche minority.

[46] Jagow noted sourly that this statement was essentially true and that "whole sections of Hungarian society would have retrained to perform new tasks" as a result of a "radical restructuring".

[48] The American historian Randolph Braham noted that most of the Hungarian officer corps were "extreme Germanophiles" who had a blind faith in the Nazi "final victory", and it was quite possible that Heszlényi and Homlok were acting on their own.

[52] Turkey under the leadership of President İsmet İnönü leaned towards a pro-Allied neutrality, and the Turks often assisted with settling up meetings between diplomats from the lesser Axis nations and the Allies.

[53] At an angry meeting with Kállay later the same day, Jagow accused his government of negotiating for an armistice in Turkey, and warned the Reich would not let Hungary leave the Axis.

[54] Jagow in a dispatch to Ribbentrop reported that rumors in Budapest was that Kállay had gone to Italy to ask about Italy, Hungary and Finland all signing a joint armistice with the Allies; rumors that were true[54] Jagow advised Ribbentrop that Germany should consider occupying Hungary as he reported the situation was growing more "alarming" and the "negative" influences that he attributed to the Hungarian Jews were increasing by the day.

[57] Jagow stated that Anfuso had told him that he in turn had talked to Kállay, who mentioned that he was stalling for time until the Allies won the war and he would never deport the Hungarian Jewish community.

On 15 March 1944, when Admiral Horthy was attending a performance of the opera Petofi, he received an urgent summons from Jagow who stated he had to meet him immediately at the German legation.

[62] The fact that there were about 762, 000 Jews still living in Hungary at the time of the German occupation in March 1944 was seen as a failure on Jagow's part and he was replaced as minister by SS Brigadeführer Edmund Veesenmayer.

[45] On 21 January 1945, while fighting against the Red Army in Upper Silesia, Jagow personally knocked out four Soviet tanks with his panzerfaust (anti-tank rocket launcher), for which he was mentioned in dispatches.

[45] In April 1945 he was sent on a diplomatic mission to the Italian Social Republic, heading for the village of Fažana that served as the headquarters of the German military occupation authority in Italy.

[64] Henning von Jagow claims that his father's suicide was an act of political protest against the Nazi regime that was consistent with the aristocratic code of honor that he professed to live by.