- 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.
- Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal, KBE, (Buczacz, December 31, 1908 - Vienna, September 20, 2005) was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer who became a Nazi hunter after surviving the Holocaust. Following four and a half years in the concentration camps of Janowska, Plaszow, and Mauthausen during World War II, …
- Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (June 12, 1929 – early March 1945) was a Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933, after the Nazis gained power in Germany, and were trapped by the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
- 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, …
- 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.
- David Horowitz
David Horowitz was the founder of the United Israel World Union and one of eight children of Cantor Aaron and Bertha Horowitz whose family immigrated to the United States in 1914. He first went to the land of present-day Israel in 1924 as an ardent Zionist. He married and moved to Poland in 1927 where he lived with his wife's parents during her pregnancy and played a part in trying to rescue Jews from the Nazi death machine as it rolled across Europe.
- David Horowitz
The David Horowitz Freedom Center was founded in the 1988 by political activist David Horowitz and his long-time collaborato... ... The David Horowitz Freedom Center was founded in the 1988 by political activist David Horowitz and his long-time collaborato...
- Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk (born July 12 1946 in Maidstone, Kent) is a British journalist and is currently a Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper "The Independent". He was married to the American journalist Lara Marlowe. He lives in Beirut, Lebanon, where he has resided for over 25 years.
- George Soros
George Soros (born August 12, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary, as György Schwartz) is an American financial speculator, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist. He peacefully promotes democracy in Eastern Europe. Currently, he is the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. His support for the Solidarity labor movement in Poland, …
- Leni Riefenstahl
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, dancer and actress, and widely noted for her aesthetics and advances in film technique. Her most famous film was "Triumph des Willens", a documentary of the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party, which was used by the Third Reich as a powerful propaganda film. Because of Riefenstahl's social prominence in the Third Reich, including a personal acquaintance with Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, …
- Eva Braun
Eva Anna Paula Braun, died Eva Hitler (February 6, 1912 - April 30, 1945) was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and briefly his wife.
- 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.
- Primo Levi
Primo Michele Levi (July 31, 1919 - April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, and novels. He is best known for his work on the Holocaust, and in particular his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz, the infamous death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
- Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 - May 26, 1976) (pronounced) was a highly influential German philosopher. His best known work is "Being and Time" (1927).
- Menachem Begin
"'"' (August 16, 1913 – March 9, 1992) was a Polish-Jewish head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first Likud Prime Minister of Israel. Though revered by many Israelis, Begin’s legacy remains highly controversial and divisive. As the leader of Irgun, Begin played a central role in Jewish military resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine, but was strongly deplored and consequently sidelined by mainstream Zionist leadership.
- 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.
- Michael Medved
Michael Medved (born October 3 1948) is an American, conservative radio talk show host, film critic and author.
- 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.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906 - April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, and a founding member of the Confessing Church. He was involved in plots planned by members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate Adolf Hitler. He was arrested in March 1943, imprisoned, and eventually hanged just before the end of the World War II in Europe.
- Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel (Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, 1891-1944) | The famous "Desert Fox" commander of the North African campaign was born in Heidenheim, near Ulm on Nov. 15, 1891. While earning the respect of both sides in WWII, Rommel became disillusioned with Hitler. Although the Nazis accused him of being involved in the abortive July 20, 1944 bombing/assassination attempt against Hitler, his active role in the plot is doubtful.
- Robert Parry
Robert Parry is an American investigative journalist. During the 1980s, Parry worked for Associated Press and "Newsweek", and was credited with breaking a number of stories about the Reagan administration's actions in what came to be known as the Iran-Contra Affair. Along with his AP partner, Brian Barger, he was the first journalist to report on Lt. Colonel Oliver North's activities in the White House basement, …
- Wernher von Braun
Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23 1912 - June 16 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States. The German scientist, who led Germany's rocket development program (V-2) before and during World War II, entered the United States at the end of the war through the then-secret Operation Paperclip.
- Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Gustav Wallenberg was a Swedish humanitarian sent to Budapest, Hungary under diplomatic cover to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. He worked to save the lives of many Hungarian Jews in the later stages of World War II by issuing them protective passports from the Swedish embassy. These documents identified the bearers as Swedish nationals awaiting repatriation. It is impossible to determine exactly how many Jews were rescued by his actions.
- Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn was an Academy Award-winning Anglo-Dutch actress of film and theatre, Broadway stage performer, ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. Raised under Nazi rule in Arnhem, Netherlands during World War II, Hepburn trained extensively to become a ballerina, before deciding to pursue acting. She first gained notice for her starring role in the Broadway production of "Gigi" (1951). She was then cast in "Roman Holiday" (1953) as Princess Ann, …
- Julius Streicher
Julius Streicher was a prominent Nazi prior to and during World War II. He was the publisher of the Nazi "Der Stürmer" newspaper, which was to become a part of the Nazi propaganda machine. His publishing firm released three anti-Semitic books for children, including the 1938 "Der Giftpilz" ("The Poison Mushroom"), one of the most widespread pieces of propaganda, …
- Horst Wessel
Horst Ludwig Wessel (September 9, 1907 - February 23, 1930) was a German Nazi activist who was made a posthumous hero of the Nazi movement following his violent death in 1930. He was the author of the lyrics to the song "Die Fahne hoch" ("Raise High the Flag"), usually known as Horst-Wessel-Lied ("the Horst Wessel Song"), which became the Nazi Party anthem, and which was also part of Germany's national anthem from 1933 to 1945.
- John Loftus
John Joseph Loftus (born February 12, 1950, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American author, former US government prosecutor and former Army intelligence officer. He is a president of The Intelligence Summit and a president of the Florida Holocaust Museum, the first Irish Catholic president of that institution. Loftus serves on the Board of Advisers to Public Information Research. He is a resident of St. Petersburg, Florida.
- Martin Niemöller
Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller was a prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor. He is best known as the author of the poem "First they came...". Although he was a national conservative, an antisemite, and initially a sympathizer of Adolf Hitler, he became one of the founders of the Confessing Church, which opposed the nazification of German Protestant churches. For his opposition to the Nazi's state control of the churches, …
- Otto Frank
Otto Heinrich Frank (May 12, 1889 - August 19, 1980) was the father of Anne Frank. He inherited Anne Frank's manuscripts after her death, and arranged for the publication of her diary in 1947.
- Otto Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger (December 5, 1906 - April 23, 1986) was an Austrian actor and twice Oscar-nominated film director. Preminger was born in Vienna to a well-known family. Preminger's father Marc was once the Attorney General of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. As their father, both Otto and his brother, Ingo Preminger, earned law degrees in Vienna. Preminger worked with Max Reinhardt before emigrating to America. At first he directed and acted for 20th Century Fox.
- William Joyce
William Joyce, the man generally associated with the nickname Lord Haw-Haw, was a fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during World War II. He was executed for treason by the British as a result of his wartime activities.
- Robert Jay Lifton
Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. (born May 16, 1926) is an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of war and political violence and for his theory of thought reform. He was an early proponent of the techniques of psychohistory. In 2006, Lifton appeared in a documentary on cults on the History Channel: "Decoding the Past", along with fellow psychiatrist Peter A. Olsson
- 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
- Ernst Röhm
Ernst Julius Röhm, also known as Ernst Roehm in English (Munich November 28, 1887 – july 2, 1934) was a German military officer, and the commander and co-founder of the Nazi Sturmabteilung — the SA.
- Paul Spiegel
Paul Spiegel was leader of the Zentralrat der Juden (Central Council of Jews) in Germany and the main spokesman of the German Jews. He was widely praised for his leadership of the German Jewish community, which had grown from the remnants left by the Nazis into the third largest Jewish community in western Europe.
- 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.
- Franz Werfel
Franz Werfel (September 10, 1890 - August 26, 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet who wrote in German.
- Lord Haw-Haw
Lord Haw-Haw was the nickname of several announcers on the English language propaganda radio programme 'Germany Calling', broadcast by Nazi German radio to audiences in Great Britain on the mediumwave station Radio Hamburg and by shortwave to the United States. The programme started on 18 September, 1939 and continued until April 30, 1945, when Hamburg was overrun by the British Army.
- Traudl Junge
Traudl Junge (16 March, 1920 - 10 February, 2002), born Gertraud Humps, was Adolf Hitler's youngest personal private secretary, from December 1942 to April 1945.