- Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 - 30 April 1945) was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (The Nazi party). He was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and became FAhrer (leader) [2] in 1934, remaining in power until his suicide in 1945.
- Martin Luther
Martin Luther was a German monk, theologian, and church reformer. Luther's theology challenged the authority of the papacy by emphasizing the Bible as the sole source of religious authority and the church as a priesthood of all believers. According to Luther, salvation was attainable only by faith in Jesus as the messiah, a faith unmediated by the church. These ideas helped to inspire the Protestant Reformation and changed the course of Western civilization.
- Albert Speer
Albert Speer (born July 29, 1934 in Berlin) is a German architect and urban planner. He is son of the architect and Nazi Party official Albert Speer. His grandfather Albert Friedrich Speer and his great-grandfather were also architects. He won his first international prize in 1964, and opened his own architect's office. He had great international success, and worked much in Saudi Arabia. In 1977 he became professor of urban planning in Kaiserslautern.
- Gregor Strasser
Gregor Strasser (May 31, 1892 - June 30, 1934) was a politician of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP). He was murdered in Berlin during the Night of the Long Knives.
- Fritz Todt
Fritz Todt (September 4, 1891 - February 8, 1942) was a German engineer and senior Nazi figure, the founder of Organisation Todt. He died in a plane crash during World War II. He was born in Pforzheim, the son of a small factory owner. He studied engineering in Karlsruhe and the School for Advanced Technical Studies in Munich. He took part in World War I, initially with the infantry and then as an observer with the airforce, winning the Iron Cross.
- Franz Seldte
Franz Seldte (June 29, 1882 - April 1, 1947) was a cofounder of the paramilitary organization "Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten", a National Socialist politician, and a Reich labour minister (Reichsarbeitsminister)
- Fritz Sauckel
Fritz Sauckel (October 27, 1894 – October 16, 1946) was a Nazi war criminal, who organized the systematic enslavement of millions of men and boys from lands occupied by Nazi Germany. He was General Plenipotentiary for the Employment of Labour from 1942 until the end of the war. He was born in Haßfurt (Lower Franconia), the only child of a postman and a seamstress. Sauckel was educated at local schools and left early when his mother fell ill.
- Gertrud Scholtz-Klink
Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (February 9, 1902 - March 24, 1999; nee "Treusch") was a fervent National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) member and Reichs Women's Leader. She married a factory worker at the age of eighteen and had six children before he died. His martyrdom and her plain Germanic looks made her a perfect candidate for the National Socialists. Scholtz-Klink joined the Nazi Party and by 1929 became leader of the women's section in Berlin.
- Oswald Spengler
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (Blankenburg am Harz May 29, 1880 - May 8, 1936, Munich) was a German historian and philosopher whose interests also included mathematics, science, and art. He is best known for his book "The Decline of the West" in which he puts forth a cyclical theory of the rise and decline of civilizations. After "Decline" was published in 1918, Spengler produced his "Prussianism and Socialism" in 1920, …
- Viktor Lutze
Viktor Lutze was an SA officer ("Obergruppenführer") in Nazi Germany. He joined the German Army in 1912 and fought during World War I, where he lost his left eye. After the war, Lutze joined the police force. He was a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and the Prussian State Council. He was appointed police president of Hanover in 1933. His participation in the Night of the Long Knives was very important, …
- Hans Krebs
Hans Krebs (26 April 1888 in Iglau - 15 February 1947 in Prague) was a Nazi party member who is not to be confused with German contemporaries like the General Hans Krebs (1898 - 1945) or the biochemist Hans Adolf Krebs (1900 - 1981). Born in the Austrian Empire in the ancient frontier town Iglau between Moravia and Bohemia which would become the second largest German-speaking enclave of the Germans in Czechoslovakia (1918-1938), …
- Wilhelm Stuckart
Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart (November 16, 1902 - November 15, 1953) was a Nazi Party lawyer and official, and a state secretary in the German Interior Ministry. Stuckart was born in Wiesbaden. He joined the Nazi Party in 1922. He was heavily involved in the early Nazi approach towards Jews, co-writing the anti-Jewish "Nuremberg Laws" imposed by the Nazi-controlled Reichstag in 1935. Stuckart later represented Wilhelm Frick, the Interior Minister, …
- Otto Georg Thierack
Otto Georg Thierack (19 April 1889 - 22 November 1946) was a Nazi jurist and politician. Thierack was born in Wurzen in Saxony. He took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 as a volunteer, reaching the rank of lieutenant. He suffered a face injury and was decorated with the Iron Cross, second class. After the war ended, he resumed his interrupted law studies and ended them in 1920 with his "Assessor" (junior lawyer) examination.
- Arno Breker
Arno Breker was a German sculptor best known for being endorsed by the authorities of Nazi Germany. Breker was born in Elberfeld, in the north of Germany, the son of a stone mason. He began to study architecture, along with stone-carving and anatomy, and at age 20 was accepted to the Düsseldolf Academy of Arts where concentrated on sculpture. He first visited Paris in 1924, shortly before finishing his studies. There he met with Jean Cocteau, Jean Renoir, Pablo Picasso, …
- Ernst Wilhelm Bohle
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (July 28, 1903 - November 9, 1960) was leader of the Foreign Organization of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP) from 1933 until 1945.
- Gottfried Benn
Gottfried Benn (May 2, 1886 - July 7, 1956) was a German essayist, novelist and expressionist poet. A doctor of medicine, he became an early admirer, and later a critic, of the National Socialist revolution. Benn had a literary influence on German verse immediately before and after the Third Reich.
- Karl Fiehler
Karl Fiehler was a German politician of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) and Lord Mayor of Munich from 1933 until 1945.
- Josef Terboven
Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven (May 23, 1898 - May 8, 1945) was a Nazi leader, best known as the Reichskommissar (commissioner) during the German military occupation of Norway. Terboven was born in Essen, the son of minor landed gentry. He served in the German field artillery and nascent air force in World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross, rising to the rank of lieutenant. He studied law and political science at the universities of Munich and Freiburg, …
- Wilhelm Gustloff
Wilhelm Gustloff (January 30, 1895 - February 4, 1936) was the German leader of the Swiss NSDAP (Nazi) party; he founded the Swiss branch of the party at Davos in 1932. Gustloff, who worked as a Swiss government meteorologist, joined the NSDAP in 1929 and put much effort in the distribution of the anti-Semitic book Protocols of the Elders of Zion, to the point that members of the Swiss Jewish community sued the book's distributor, the Swiss Nazi Party, for libel.
- Albert Leo Schlageter
Albert Leo Schlageter was a member of the German Freikorps and a Martyr-figure for the National Socialists.
- Oskar Dirlewanger
Oskar Dirlewanger was a World War II officer with the Schutzstaffel (SS). He commanded the infamous SS-Sturmbrigade "Dirlewanger" unit made out of amnestied Germans convicted of major crimes.
- Florian Geyer
Florian Geyer (1490-1525), also known as "Florian Geier from Giebelstadt", was a Franconian nobleman who led the Black Company during the Peasants War resulting from the Protestant Reformation in Germany in the 16th century. Despite his membership in the ruling class, Geyer sided with the Protestant peasants against the Roman Catholic hierarchy, for which he became a notable folk hero in Franconia and the whole of Germany.
- Hans Nieland
Hans Heinrich Nieland (October 3, 1900 in Hagen - August 29, 1976 in Reinbek near Hamburg) was a politician of the German Nazi-Party (NSDAP) and Lord Mayor of Dresden from 1940 until 1945.
- Werner Best
Werner Best was a German jurist, police chief and National Socialist. Best served as civilian administrator of France and Denmark while Nazi Germany occupied those countries during World War II. Best was born in Darmstadt. SS-Obergruppenführer (equivalent to full general), department head in the SS-Gestapo within the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and deputy of Reinhard Heydrich from 1939 to 1940, …
- Erich Kempka
SS-Obersturmbannführer Erich Kempka served as Adolf Hitler's chauffeur from 1934. He was member #2803 of the Allgemeine-SS. Kempka was born in Oberhausen to a miner with ten children. He was working as a mechanic for the automotive manufacturer DKW when he joined the Nazi Party on 1 April 1930 as member #225-639. Two years later, he was one of eight founding members of the SS-Begleit-Kommando. He served as chauffeur for Josef Terboven until 29 February 1932, when, …
- Clemens August Graf von Galen
Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen was a German count, Bishop of Münster, and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. An outspoken critic of the Nazi regime, he issued forceful, public denunciations of the Third Reich's euthanasia programs and persecution of the Catholic Church, making him one of the most visible and unrelenting internal voices of dissent against the Nazis.
- Manfred Freiherr von Killinger
Manfred, "Freiherr" von Killinger (July 14, 1886-September 2, 1944) was a German naval officer, "Freikorps" leader, military writer and Nazi politician. A veteran of World War I and member of the "Marinebrigade Ehrhardt" during the German Revolution, he took part in the violent intervention against the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
- Ron Rosenbaum
Ron Rosenbaum grew up on Long Island, New York. A graduate of Yale with a degree in English literature, he left Yale Graduate School to write full-time. His essays and journalism have appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine (eight cover stories).
- Josef Bürckel
Joseph Bürckel (March 30, 1895, Lingenfeld, Germersheim-September 28, 1944, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Rhineland-Palatinate) was a German National Socialist politician, a member of the National Socialist Reichstag. An energetic Nazi organizer in the Saar-Palatinate since 1925, the former schoolmaster rose through the ranks to become Gauleiter (Nazi Party leader) for the region in 1934.
- Walther Sommerlath
Carl August Walther Sommerlath (January 22, 1901 Heidelberg, Germany - October 21, 1990 Heidelberg, Germany), father of Queen Silvia of Sweden, was a German businessman, president of the Brazilian subsidiary of the Swedish steel-parts manufacturer Uddeholm. Expatriate member of the German Nazi Party 1934 - 1945.
- Carl Friedrich Goerdeler
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (July 31, 1884 - February 2, 1945) was a conservative German politician and opponent of the Nazi regime.
- John Buchanan
John Buchanan was a Republican candidate in the 2004 Presidential race. He is a former journalist who lives in Miami, Florida. He has written a screenplay called "Operation Clear-Vision" on the subject of the Bush family, pharmaceutical companies and biological weapons research. It was during the research for this project that he discovered documents related to Prescott Bush's business dealings with Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen.
- Hans Ulrich Klintzsch
Hans Ulrich Klintzsch was an ex-naval lieutenant from the Erhardt Brigade who served as leader of the Oberste SA-Führer from 1921 until May 11, 1923, when he returned to his former unit and ceded control to Hermann Göring. He sent Franz Jaenicke to Berlin to found the Nazi Party.
- Paul Rostock
Paul Rostock (January 18, 1892 - June 17, 1956) was a German official, surgeon, and university professor. He was Chief of the Office for Medical Science and Research ("Amtschef der Dienststelle Medizinische Wissenschaft und Forschung") under Third Reich Commissioner Karl Brandt and a Full Professor, Medical Doctorate, Medical Superintendent of the University of Berlin Surgical Clinic. Rostock was born in Kranz/Meseritz, Greater Poland.
- Karl Jäger
Karl Jäger was a Swiss-born Nazi leader. Jäger was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. In World War I he received the Iron Cross (1st Class). He joined the Nazi Party in 1923 (serial no. 359269) and the SS in 1932 (serial no. 62823). He was assigned to Ludwigsburg, then to Ravensburg, in 1935, and to Münster in 1938, where he was named head of the local office of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD). During the invasion of the Netherlands on May 10 1940, …
- Frank Stella
Frank Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter and printmaker. He is a significant figure in minimalism, post-painterly abstraction, patterns and offset lithography. He was born in Malden, Massachusetts. After attending high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, he went on to Princeton University, where he painted, influenced by the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, and majored in history.
- Arnold Fanck
Arnold Fanck (born 6 March 1889 in Frankenthal, Germany; died 28 September 1974 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) was a pioneer of the German mountain film. Together with Odo Deodatus Tauern, Bernhard Villinger and Rolf Bauer, Fanck established the company "Berg- und Sportfilm GmbH Freiburg" in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1920. Fanck, who held a PhD in geology, directed mountain films, sports films and ski films.
- Josef Blösche
Josef Blösche was an SS-Rottenführer, serving the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) in Germany during World War II. Blösche spent his early life working as a farmhand and a waiter at his father's hotel, joining the German military after Adolf Hitler annexed the Sudetenland. In September 1941, he began serving as a guard at a wooden bridge connecting greater Warsaw to the Warsaw ghetto.
- Paul Schultze-Naumburg
Paul Schultze-Naumburg was one of Adolf Hitler's architects and one of its most vocal political critics of modern architecture. Schultze-Naumburg with German architects Alexander von Senger, Eugen Honig, Konrad Nonn, and German Bestelmeyer were members of a National Socialist para-governmental propaganda unit called the Kampfbund deutscher Architekten und Ingenieure (KDAI).
- Kurt Huber
Kurt Huber (October 24, 1893-July 13, 1943) was a member of the White Rose group, which carried out resistance against Nazi Germany. Huber was born in Chur, Switzerland, to German parents. He grew up in Stuttgart and, later (after his father's death), in Munich. He showed an aptitude for such subjects as music, philosophy and psychology, and became a professor in 1920.