- 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.
- Heinrich Luitpold Himmler
Heinrich Himmler was Reichsfuhrer-SS (Reich SS Leader) and Chief of the German police. In this capacity, he was responsible for the implementation of the Final Solution - the extermination of the Jews - as ordered by the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler. ... When it came time for Hitler to order the annihilation of the Jews, who better to select to carry it out than the man who was at once his most loyal follower and also in control of the apparatus necessary for its execution?
- Adolf Eichmann
Otto Adolf Eichmann was a high-ranking Nazi and SS Obersturmbannführer (equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel). Due to his organizational talents and ideological reliability, he was charged by Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with the task of facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
- Martin Luther
Martin Franz Julius Luther was an early member of the National-Socialist Party. He served as an advisor to Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, first in the "Dienststelle Ribbentrop" ("Ribbentrop Bureau"), and later in the "Auswärtiges Amt" ("Foreign Ministry") when von Ribbentrop replaced Konstantin von Neurath. He is perhaps most remembered for having participated in the infamous Wannsee Conference, in which the Final Solution was planned.
- Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897–1 May 1945) was a German politician and Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the National Socialist regime from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers. Goebbels was known for his zealous, energetic oratory and virulent anti-Semitism. Goebbels earned a Ph.D. from Heidelberg University in 1921, …
- Rudolf Hess
Walter Richard Rudolf Hess was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, acting as Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party. On the eve of war with the Soviet Union, he flew to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace, but was arrested. He was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to life internment at Spandau Prison, where he died in 1987. He has become a figure of veneration among neo-Nazis and anti-Semites.
- Hermann Göring
Hermann Wilhelm Göring was a German politician and military leader, a leading member of the Nazi Party, second in command of the Third Reich, and commander of the Luftwaffe. He was tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945-1946 and sentenced to death by hanging; however, he escaped the hangman's noose around two hours before his scheduled execution by taking his life through the use of potassium cyanide.
- Albert Speer
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, commonly known as Albert Speer (March 19, 1905 - September 1, 1981), was an architect, author and high-ranking Nazi German government official, sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich". His two bestselling autobiographical works, "Inside the Third Reich" and "Spandau: the Secret Diaries" detailed his often close personal relationship with German dictator Adolf Hitler, …
- Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was an "SS-Obergruppenführer", chief of the Reich Security Main Office (including the Gestapo, SD and Kripo Nazi police agencies) and Reich governor of Bohemia and Moravia. Adolf Hitler considered him a possible successor. Heydrich was one of the architects of the Holocaust, chairing the 1942 Wannsee conference, which finalized plans for the extermination of all European Jews.
- Klaus Barbie
Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon (October 25, 1913 - September 25, 1991) was a German soldier and Gestapo member.
- Martin Bormann
Martin Bormann was a prominent Nazi official. He became head of the Party Chancellery "(Parteikanzlei)" and private secretary to German Führer Adolf Hitler. He gained Hitler's trust and derived immense power within the Third Reich by controlling access to the Führer.
- Alfred Rosenberg
"'"' (January 12, 1893 Reval (nowadays Tallinn) – October 16, 1946) was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi party, who later held several important posts in the Nazi government. He is considered the main author of key Nazi ideological creeds, including its racial theory, persecution of the Jews, "Lebensraum", abolition of the Treaty of Versailles, and opposition to "degenerate" modern art. He is also known for his rejection of Christianity.
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (October 4, 1903 - October 16, 1946) was a senior Nazi official during World War II. He was the highest ranking SS leader to face trial. He was executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- 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.
- Baldur von Schirach
Baldur Benedikt von Schirach (May 9, 1907 - August 8, 1974) was a Nazi youth leader later convicted of being a war criminal. Schirach was the head of the "Hitler-Jugend" (HJ, Hitler Youth) and Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter ("Imperial Governor") of Vienna
- Karl Wolff
Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff was a high-ranking member of the Nazi SS. He held the rank of "SS-Obergruppenführer" and General of the Waffen-SS. Wolff was born in Darmstadt, Germany, and joined the German Army during World War I, leaving as a Lieutenant. In 1931 Wolff joined the Nazi Party and in 1932 the SS, and worked his way up to being Chief of Staff, Main Office Personal Staff "Reichsführer SS" in 1933.
- Walther Funk
Walter Emanuel Funk (August 18, 1890 - May 31, 1960) was a prominent Nazi official. He served as Minister for Economic Affairs in Nazi Germany from 1937 to 1945.
- Konrad Henlein
Konrad Henlein (May 6, 1898 - May 10, 1945) was the most important pro-Nazi politician in Czechoslovakia and leader of Sudeten German separatists.
- 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, …
- Philipp Bouhler
Philipp Bouhler was a Nazi German government official, SS-Obergruppenführer, head of the Führer's Chancellery and leader of the euthanasia programme, the so-called "Aktion T4". Bouhler was born in Munich to a retired colonel and spent five years in the Royal Bavarian Cadet Corps. He took part in the First World War and was badly wounded.http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=106998 From 1919 to 1920, …
- Walter Gross
Walter Groß or Walter Gross was the head of the Racial Policy Office of the NSDAP. Groß was an anti-Semite and called for the extermination of the Jews and believed in the Final Solution that was so central to the Nazi Party. He wrote several books on the subject of the "Jewish Question". In 1933 Gross was appointed to create the National Socialist Office for Enlightenment on Population Policy and Racial Welfare, …
- Otto Strasser
Otto Johann Maximilian Strasser was a German politician and left-wing member of the National Socialist (Nazi) party who rejected some of Adolf Hitler's ideas and more moderate economical tendencies (those opposed to a radical socialist change and revolution). Strasser subsequently formed his own faction within the Nazi Party, along with his brother, Gregor Strasser.
- Karl Brandt
Karl Brandt was selected the personal physician of Adolf Hitler in August 1944 and headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939. As Major General Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation he was involved in human experimentation, along with his deputy Werner Heyde and others. Brandt was born in Mülhausen in the then German Alsace-Lorraine territory (now Mulhouse, France). He became a medical doctor in 1928. He joined the Nazi Party in January 1932, …
- Dietrich Eckart
Dietrich Eckart (23 March 1868 - 26 December 1923) was a German politician, one of the early key members of the National-Socialist German Workers' Party and one of the participants in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch.
- Roland Freisler
Roland Freisler (October 30, 1893 - February 3, 1945) was a prominent and notorious Nazi German judge. He became State Secretary of Adolf Hitler's Reich Ministry of Justice and President of the "Volksgerichtshof", a court set up outside constitutional authority. This court handled political crimes against Adolf Hitler's regime.
- Walter Schellenberg
Walter (correctly Walther) Friedrich Schellenberg (January 161910 - March 311952) was a German Nazi who rose through the SS to become, following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944, head of foreign intelligence.
- Otto Bradfisch
Otto Bradfisch was an economist, a jurist, an SS Obersturmbannführer, Leader of Einsatzkommando 8 of Einsatzgruppe B of the Security Police ("Sicherheitspolizei") and the SD, and Commander of the Security Police in Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and Potsdam.
- Anton Drexler
Anton Drexler (13 June 1884 - 24 February 1942) was a German Nazi political leader of the 1920s
- 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.
- Hermann Florstedt
Born in Bitsch on February 8th 1895, Hermann Florstedt became the third Commandant of Majdanek Concentration Camp in October 1942. A World War I veteran, Florstedt was awarded the Iron Cross. Brought into Majdanek to replace Max Kögel, Florstedt had earlier served at Sachsenhausen from 1940-1942. He was replaced by the interim commander Martin Weiss, …
- Karl Hanke
Karl August Hanke (24 August 1903 - 8 June 1945) was an official of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party or NSDAP). He served as Governor and Region Leader ("Gauleiter") of Lower Silesia from 1940 to 1945.
- Erich Priebke
Erich Priebke is a Nazi war criminal. A former "Hauptsturmführer" in the S.S., he participated in the massacre at the Ardeatine caves in Rome, on March 24, 1944. 335 Italian civilians were killed there as revenge after a partisan group had killed 33 German soldiers and an unknown number of civilians. Priebke was one of those who stood responsible for this mass execution.
- Odilo Globocnik
Odilo Globocnik was a prominent Austrian Nazi and later an SS leader.
- Emil Maurice
Emil Maurice was an early member of the Nazi Party. A watchmaker, he was a close associate of Adolf Hitler with a personal friendship dating back to at least 1919. With the founding of the "Sturmabteilung" in 1920, Maurice became the first "Oberster SA-Führer" (Supreme SA Leader). In 1923, Maurice also became the SA commander of the newly established "Stabswache" which was a special SA company tasked to guard Adolf Hitler at Nazi parties and rallies.
- Erhard Heiden
Erhard Heiden was an early member of the Nazi Party and the third commander of the "Schutzstaffel" (SS). Heiden was a Nazi stormtrooper who, in 1925, joined a small stormtrooper bodyguard unit known as the Schutzstaffel. Heiden was an early advocate of separating the SS from its master organization, the "Sturmabteilung" (SA), and in March 1927 he was appointed "Reichsführer-SS" in an attempt to keep the SS from being disbanded under SA desires.
- Gottfried Feder
Gottfried Feder was an economist and one of the early key members of the NSDAP. He was their economic theoretician. Initially, it was his lecture in 1919 that drew Hitler into the party
- Julius Schreck
Julius Schreck (July 13, 1898 - May 16, 1936) was an early Nazi Party member and also the first commander of the "Schutzstaffel" (SS). Schreck joined the Nazi Party in 1920, at about the same time as Adolf Hitler, and the two developed a deep friendship in the early days of Nazi history. Schreck had also served in World War I and was a member of the Freikorps.
- Robert Ritter von Greim
Robert Ritter von Greim (Robert Greim; June 22, 1892 - May 24, 1945) was a German Field Marshal, pilot and army officer.
- Alois Brunner
Alois Brunner, born April 8 1912 in Nádkút, Hungary (now: Rohrbrunn, Burgenland, Austria), reports of death contested, is an Austrian Nazi war criminal who was Adolf Eichmann's assistant, who called him "his best man.". After the war, he worked for the CIA through the Gehlen Org, and then escaped to Syria through a "ratline" organized by Roman Catholic bishop Alois Hudal. Commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, …
- 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, …