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|fullname = National-Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
|alias = Nazi Party<br>Third Reich<br>Nazi Germany<br>NSDAP<br>National Socialist German Workers' Party
|origin = Germany
|foundation = February 24, 1920
|headquarters = Munich, Germany
|commanders = [[Anton Drexler]] (1920 - 1933)<br>[[Adolf Hitler]] (1933 - 1945)<br>[[Joseph Goebbels]] (1945)<br>[[Karl Dönitz]] (as President of Germany; April - May 1945)
|agents = ''See below''
|skills = Manipulation
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|goals = Establish the "Aryans" as the master race that will rule the world (failed)<br>Establish a thousand-year Reich (failed)<br>Conquer all of Europe (failed)
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{{Quote|The party must not become the servant of the masses, but their master.|Adolf Hitler}}
'''The National Socialist German Workers' Party''' (often shorted simply to '''"Nazis"''') were the ruling party of Germany during the events of [[World War II]]. First emerging in 1920 as the successor to the nationalistic [[German Workers' Party]], the Nazi Party became infamous as a society that, under the control of [[Adolf Hitler]], orchestrated a number of unlawful invasions as well as numerous [[war crimes]] and [[crimes against humanity]], with the most well known being [[The Holocaust|the Holocaust]], the [[genocide|genocidal]] mass slaughter of Jews all across Europe that is widely accepted to be the worst act of genocide in modern history.

The Nazi Party is considered by many to be the most evil organization to have ever existed; they have become a staple symbol of evil in the minds of many along with their symbol, the Swastika, which is outlawed in a few countries as a hate symbol — the Nazi Party was part of a wider network of regimes collectively known as the [[Axis Powers]] during World War II and ultimately found defeat shortly after Hitler committed suicide.

Although extensive work was done to try and remove and evidence of the Nazis' crimes from Germany and the world in general, sadly, their legacy continues to live on across the world in the forms of various Neo-Nazi and [[White Power Movement|white supremacist]] organizations throughout the world. Their ideals have also seen a major resurgence in popularity during the mid-to-late 2010's with the rise of the [[Alt-Right]] movement.

== Ideology ==
The Nazi Party's prime ideology was a variation of [[fascism]] known as '''National Socialism''' (not to be confused with the type of socialism associated with communism) and it promoted the idea that the Aryan race (humans of Nordic and Germanic descent) was an innately superior breed of human and therefore deserved dominance over the world and other races. While the party is well-remembered for its extreme [[Anti-Semitism|antisemitism]], the Nazis also targeted [[wikipedia:Slavs|Slavs]] (such as Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Serbians, Croatians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians), [[wikipedia:Romani people|Romani]] (targeting them with a separate event known as the [[Porajmos]]) Greeks, Arabs, Muslims, homosexuals, the disabled, Catholics, socialists, leftist-sympathizers, and others deemed [[wikipedia:Untermensch|Untermensch]] (sub-human) by the dictatorship.

== History ==
The Nazi Party was founded as the German Workers’ Party by [[Anton Drexler]], a Munich locksmith, in 1919. Adolf Hitler attended one of its meetings that year, and before long his energy and oratorical skills would enable him to take over the party, which was renamed National Socialist German Workers’ Party in 1920. 

That year Hitler also formulated a 25-point program that became the permanent basis for the party. The program called for German abandonment of the Treaty of Versailles and for the expansion of German territory. These appeals for national aggrandizement were accompanied by a strident [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic]] rhetoric. The party’s socialist orientation was basically a demagogic gambit designed to attract support from the working class. By 1921 Hitler had ousted the party’s other leaders and taken over.

Under Hitler the Nazi Party grew steadily in its home base of Bavaria. It organized strong-arm groups to protect its rallies and meetings. These groups drew their members from war veterans groups and paramilitary organizations and were organized under the name ''[[Sturmabteilung]]'' (SA). In 1923 Hitler and his followers felt strong enough to stage the [[Beer Hall Putsch]], an unsuccessful attempt to take control of the Bavarian state government in the hope that it would trigger a nationwide insurrection against the Weimar Republic. The coup failed, the Nazi Party was temporarily banned, and Hitler was sent to prison for most of 1924.

Upon his release Hitler quickly set about rebuilding his moribund party, vowing to achieve power only through legal political means thereafter. The Nazi Party’s membership grew from 25,000 in 1925 to about 180,000 in 1929. Its organizational system of gauleiters (“district leaders”) spread through Germany at this time, and the party began contesting municipal, state, and federal elections with increasing frequency.

However, it was the effects of the Great Depression in Germany that brought the Nazi Party to its first real nationwide importance. The rapid rise in unemployment in 1929–30 provided millions of jobless and dissatisfied voters whom the Nazi Party exploited to its advantage. From 1929 to 1932 the party vastly increased its membership and voting strength; its vote in elections to the Reichstag (the German Parliament) increased from 800,000 votes in 1928 to about 14,000,000 votes in July 1932, and it thus emerged as the largest voting bloc in the Reichstag, with 230 members (38 percent of the total vote). By then big-business circles had begun to finance the Nazi electoral campaigns, and swelling bands of SA toughs increasingly dominated the street fighting with the communists that accompanied such campaigns.

When unemployment began to drop in Germany in late 1932, the Nazi Party’s vote also dropped, to about 12,000,000 (33 percent of the vote) in the November 1932 elections. Nevertheless, Hitler’s shrewd maneuvering behind the scenes prompted the president of the German republic, Paul von Hindenburg, to name him chancellor on January 30, 1933. Hitler used the powers of his office to solidify the Nazis’ position in the government during the following months. The elections of March 5, 1933—precipitated by the burning of the Reichstag building only days earlier—gave the Nazi Party 44 percent of the votes, and further unscrupulous tactics on Hitler’s part turned the voting balance in the Reichstag in the Nazis’ favour. On March 23, 1933, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, which “enabled” Hitler’s government to issue decrees independently of the Reichstag and the presidency; Hitler in effect assumed dictatorial powers.

On July 14, 1933, his government declared the Nazi Party to be the only political party in Germany. On the death of Hindenburg in 1934 Hitler took the titles of ''Führer'' (“Leader”), chancellor, and commander in chief of the army, and he remained leader of the Nazi Party as well. Nazi Party membership became mandatory for all higher civil servants and bureaucrats, and the gauleiters became powerful figures in the state governments. Hitler crushed the Nazi Party’s left, or socialist-oriented, wing in 1934, executing [[Ernst Röhm]] and other rebellious SA leaders on what would become known as the “[[Night of the Long Knives]].” Thereafter, Hitler’s word was the supreme and undisputed command in the party. 

The party came to control virtually all political, social, and cultural activities in Germany. Its vast and complex hierarchy was structured like a pyramid, with party-controlled mass organizations for youth, women, workers, and other groups at the bottom, party members and officials in the middle, and Hitler and his closest associates at the top wielding undisputed authority.

Upon Germany’s defeat, Hitler’s suicide, and the Allied occupation of the country in 1945 at the end of [[World War II]], the Nazi Party was banned, and its top leaders were convicted of crimes against peace and against humanity.

== Members ==
* [[Gunter d'Alquen]] - Chief Editor of the [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] official newspaper, ''[[Das Schwarze Korps]]'' ("The Black Corps"), and commander of the [[SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers]].
* [[Friedrich Alpers]] - SS-''Obergruppenführer'' and Minister of the Free State of Brunswick.
* [[Ludolf von Alvensleben]] - commander of the [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] and police in Crimea and commander of the [[Selbstschutz]] (self-defense) of the [[Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia]].
* [[Max Amann]] - Head of Nazi publishing house [[Eher-Verlag]]
* [[Benno von Arent]] - Responsible for art, theatres, and movies in the Third Reich.
* [[Heinz Auerswald]] - Commissioner for the Jewish residential district in Warsaw from April 1941 to November 1942.
* [[Hans Aumeier]] - deputy commandant at [[Auschwitz Birkenau|Auschwitz]]
* [[Artur Axmann]] - Chief of the Social Office of the Reich Youth Leadership. Leader of the [[Hitler Youth]] from 1940 through war's end in 1945.
* [[Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski]] - Commander of the "Bandenkämpfverbände" SS units responsible for the mass [[murder]] of 35,000 civilians in Riga and more than 200,000 in Belarus and eastern Poland.
* [[Herbert Backe]] - Minister of Food (appointed 1942) and Minister of Agriculture (appointed 1943).
* [[Richard Baer (Nazi)|Richard Baer]] - Commander of the [[Auschwitz Birkenau]] [[Concentration Camp|concentration camp]] from May 1944 to February 1945.
* [[Alfred Baeumler]] - Philosopher who interpreted the works of Friedrich Nietzsche in order to legitimize Nazism.
* [[Klaus Barbie]] - Head of the [[Gestapo]] in Lyon. Nicknamed "the Butcher of Lyon" for his use of [[torture]] on prisoners.
*[[Andreas Bauriedl]]
* [[Hellmuth Becker]] - Head of SS Division Totenkopf.
* [[Josef Berchtold]] - Very early Party member, and the second ''Reichsf&uuml;hrer-SS'' from 1926-27.
* [[Gottlob Berger]] - Chief of Staff for [[Waffen-SS]] and head of the SS's main leadership office.
* [[Gerda Bernigau]] - Chief wardress of the Gross-Rosen region.
* [[Werner Best]] - SS-Obergruppenführer and Civilian administrator of Nazi occupied France and Denmark.
* [[Ernst Biberstein]] - SS-Obersturmbannführer, member of the SD and commanding officer of Einsatzkommando 6.
* [[Hans Biebow]] - Chief of Administration of the [[Łódź Ghetto]].
* [[Helmut Bischoff]] - SS-Obersturmbannführer. [[Gestapo]] chief of Poznan and Magdeberg and later head of security for Nazi Germany's V-weapons program.
* [[Paul Blobel]] - SS commander and officer in the ''[[Einsatzgruppen]]'' primarily responsible for the Babi Yar massacre at Kiev.
* [[Werner von Blomberg]] - Generalfeldmarschall, Defence Minister 1933-1935, Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces 1935-1938. Forced out in the [[Blomberg-Fritsch Affair]].
* [[Hans-Friedrich Blunck]] - Propagandist and head of the Reich Literature Chamber between 1933 and 1935.
* [[Walter Blume (SS officer)|Walter Blume]] - SS-Standartenführer (colonel) and leader of Sonderkommando 7a, part of the extermination commando group ''[[Einsatzgruppen|Einsatzgruppe B]]''
* [[Ernst Boepple]] - State Secretary of the General Government in Poland, serving as deputy to Deputy Governor [[Josef Bühler]]. Deeply implicated in the [[Final Solution]].
* [[Ernst Wilhelm Bohle]] - leader of the Foreign Organization of the German Nazi Party from 1933 until 1945.
* [[Otto von Bolschwing]] - Member of the [[Sicherheitsdienst|Ausland-SD]] and deputy to [[Adolf Eichmann]], played a major role in organizing the 1941 [[Legionnaires' rebellion and Bucharest pogrom|Bucharest]] [[pogrom]].
* [[Martin Bormann]] - Head of the [[Party Chancellery]] (Parteikanzlei) and private secretary to [[Adolf Hitler]].
* [[Herta Bothe]] - Concentration camp guard at both Ravensbrück-Stutthof and Bergen-Belsen.
* [[Philipp Bouhler]] - Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP and leader of the ''[[Action T4]]'' euthanasia program.
* [[Viktor Brack]] - Organiser of the Euthanasia Programme [[Action T4]] and one of the men responsible for the gassing of Jews in the [[Concentration camp|extermination camps]].
* [[Otto Bradfisch]] - Commander of the Security Police in [[Łódź]] and Potsdam
* [[Therese Brandl]] - Assistant manageress of the [[Auschwitz Birkenau]] women's camp.
* [[Karl Brandt]] - Personal physician of Adolf Hitler in August 1944 and headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939.
* [[Walther von Brauchitsch]] - [[Generalfeldmarschall]], Commander-in-Chief of the German Army 1938-1941.
* [[Franz Breithaupt]], NSDAP deputy to the Reichstag between 1933–1945.
* [[Alois Brunner]] - Commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944.
* [[Walter Buch]] - Jurist and supreme magistrate of the Nazi party.
* [[Friedrich Buchardt]] - Head of an SS death squad and inventor of the scale designed to measure racial purity.
* [[Josef Bühler]] - State secretary for the Nazi-controlled General Government in [[Kraków]] during World War II.
* [[Josef Bürckel]] - Politician and leading member of the [[Schutzstaffel]] from November 1937.
* [[Anton Burger]] - Commandant of [[Concentration camp Theresienstadt]] between 1943 and 1944.
* [[Werner Catel]] - Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the [[University of Leipzig]], considered an expert on the programme of euthanasia for children and participated in the [[Action T4 | T-4 Program]].
* [[Dietrich von Choltitz]]- Governor of Paris.
* [[Carl Clauberg]] - Doctor who conducted [[Nazi Medical Experimentation|medical experiments on human beings]] in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
* [[Leonardo Conti]] - Head of the Reich Physicians' Chamber (Reichsärztekammer) and leader of the National Socialist German Doctors' League (Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Ärztebund or NSDÄB).
* [[Kurt Daluege]] - SS-Oberstgruppenführer and Generaloberst der Polizei as chief of the [[Ordnungspolizei]] (Order/uniformed Police); from 1942 ruled the [[Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia]] as Acting Protector after [[Reinhard Heydrich]]'s assassination.
* [[Richard Walther Darré]] - Minister of Food and Agriculture from 1933 to 1942.
* [[Ewald von Demandowsky]] - Editor of propaganda magazine, subordinate ''Reichsfilmdramatug ''within the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and propaganda.
* [[Rudolf Diels]] - was a German politician. A protégé of Hermann Göring, Diels was the first director of the [[Gestapo]] from 26 April 1933 to 1 April 1934.
* [[Josef Dietrich|Josef "Sepp" Dietrich]] - rose to the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer in the [[Schutzstaffel|''Schutzstaffel'']]; was the original commander of [[Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler]] (LSSAH), and later commander of the 6th SS Panzer Army.
* [[Otto Dietrich]] - Press Chief of the Third Reich.
* [[Oskar Dirlewanger]] - Commanded the infamous [[Dirlewanger Brigade|SS-Sturmbrigade ''Dirlewanger'']] unit made out of amnestied Germans convicted of major crimes.
* [[Karl Dönitz]]: [[Großadmiral]], Führer der Unterseeboote (Commander of Submarines) 1936-1943, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy ([[Kriegsmarine]]) 1943-1945, last President of the Third Reich following Hitler's suicide.
* [[Anton Dostler]] - Commander of 75th Army Corps.
* [[Richard Drauz]] - Kreisleiter of [[Heilbronn]].
* [[Margot Dreschel]] - Head of the camp offices at [[Auschwitz Birkenau]].
* [[Anton Drexler]] - A politician and member of the Nazi party through the 1920s. The founder and a leader of the German Worker's Party (DAP). Responsible for changing the name of the Party to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) early in 1920.
* [[Irmfried Eberl]] - Commandant of [[Treblinka]], July to September 1942.
* [[Dietrich Eckart]] - Important early member of the National-Socialist German Workers' Party and a participant of the 1923 [[Beer Hall Putsch]].
* [[Joachim Albrecht Eggeling]] - Nazi Gauleiter of Saxony and Anhalt and High President (Oberpräsident) of the Province of Halle-Merseburg.
* [[Adolf Eichmann]] - SS-Obersturmbannführer. Official in charge of [[RSHA]] ''Referat IV B4, Juden'' (RSHA Sub-Department IV-B4, Jews); responsible for the facilitation and transportation of the Jews to ghettos and extermination camps. Fled to Argentina, where he was captured by [[Mossad]] operatives in 1960, tried in Israel and executed on May 31, 1962.
* [[Theodor Eicke]] - SS-Obergruppenführer. He was a leading figure in the establishment of the [[concentration camps]] in Nazi Germany and later the commander of the 3rd Waffen-SS Division Totenkopf.
* [[August Eigruber]] - [[Gauleiter]] of Oberdonau (Upper [[Danube]]) and [[Landeshauptmann]] of [[Upper Austria]].
* [[Gottfried von Erdmannsdorf]] - Commander of Fortress Mogilev
* [[Karl Ernst]] - SA-Gruppenführer and leader of the SA in Berlin.
* [[Hermann Esser]] - Propagandist and editor of Nazi newspaper [[Völkischer Beobachter]].
* [[Richard Euringer]] - Writer who selected 18,000 "unsuitable" books which did not conform to Nazi ideology and were publicly burned.
* [[Franz Ritter von Epp]] - General of the German army.
* [[Gottfried Feder]] - Economic theorist and one of the early leaders of the NSDAP.
* [[Hermann Fegelein]] - ''Gruppenführer'' in the Waffen-SS.
* [[Siegfried Fehmer]] - Chief administrator of the ''[[Politische Abteilung]] ''in Norway.
* [[Karl Fiehler]] - Lord Mayor of Munich from 1933 until 1945.
* [[Albert Forster]] - Politician and governor of the province [[Danzig-West Prussia]] from 1939-1945.
* [[Hans Frank]] - Governor-General of occupied Poland and involved in perpetration of the [[Holocaust]].
* [[Karl Hermann Frank]] - SS-[[Obergruppenführer]] and prominent Sudeten-German Nazi official in [[Czechoslovakia]] prior to and during World War II.
* [[Kurt Franz]] - Head of Treblinka death camp until 1943.
* [[Roland Freisler]] - State Secretary of Adolf Hitler's [[Reich Ministry of Justice]] and President of the [[Volksgerichtshof]]. He sentenced hundreds of people to their deaths, including Sophie Scholl, and various members of the [[July 20 Plot]]. He was killed while returning to collect some files during an air raid on Berlin.
* [[Wilhelm Frick]] - Minister of the Interior until August 1943 and later appointed to the ceremonial post of Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
* [[Werner von Fritsch]] - [[Generaloberst]], Commander-in-Chief of the Army 1935-1938. Forced out in the [[Blomberg-Fritsch Affair]].
* [[Hans Fritzsche]] - Senior official at the Ministry for Propaganda.
* [[Karl Fritzsch]] - Deputy commandant of [[Auschwitz Birkenau]].
* [[Walther Funk]] - Minister for Economic Affairs from 1937 to 1945.
* [[Karl Gebhardt]] - Personal physician of [[Heinrich Himmler]] and one of the main perpetrators of surgical experiments performed on inmates of the concentration camps at [[Ravensbrück]] and [[Auschwitz Birkenau|Auschwitz]].
* [[Achim Gercke]] - Expert of racial matters at the [[Ministry of the Interior]]. Devised the system of "racial prophylaxis" forbidding the intermarriage between Jews and Aryans.
* [[Kurt Gerstein]] - SS officer and member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS. He witnessed mass murders in the Nazi extermination camps. He gave information to the Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter as well as members of the Roman Catholic Church in order to inform the international public about the Holocaust. In 1945 he authored the ''[[Gerstein Report]]'' about the Holocaust. Afterward he allegedly committed suicide while in French custody.
* [[Herbert Otto Gille]] - SS-Obergruppenfuhrer und General der Waffen-SS. As a winner of the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds and the German Cross in Gold, he became the most highly decorated member of the Waffen SS during World War II.
* [[Odilo Globocnik]] - SS-Obergruppenführer. He was a prominent Austrian Nazi and later an SS leader in Poland. Head of "Operation Reinhard" and one of the persons responsible for the murder of millions of people during the Holocaust.
* [[Richard Glücks]] - SS officer and inspector of concentration camps.
* [[Joseph Goebbels]] - One of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and [[anti-Semitism]]. Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda throughout the Third Reich and World War II. Named Chancellor of the Reich in Hitler's will, a position he held for only one day before his own suicide.
* [[Hermann Göring]] - He was Hitler's designated successor (until expelled from office in April 1945), and commander of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force). As ''[[Reichsmarschall]]'' he was the highest-ranking military officer in the Third Reich; he was also the sole holder of the [[Grand Cross of the Iron Cross]]. He was sentenced to death by the Nuremberg Tribunal but committed suicide before he could be hanged. He was a veteran of the First World War as an ace fighter pilot, a participant in the [[Beer Hall Putsch]], and the founder of the [[Gestapo]].
* [[Amon Göth]] - SS-[[Hauptsturmführer]]. He was the commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at [[Płaszów]], General Government (a German occupied area of Poland).
* [[Robert Ritter von Greim]] - German Field Marshal, pilot and the last commander of the Luftwaffe succeeding Hermann Göring in the last days of World War II.
* [[Arthur Greiser]] - Chief of Civil Administration and [[Gauleiter]] in the military district of [[Greater Poland]].
* [[Irma Grese]] - SS guard at the Nazi concentration camps of Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and served as warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen. Known as "The Hyena of Auschwitz".
* [[Walter Groß]] - He was chief of the Racial Policy Office of the Nazi Party (NSDAP). Implicated in the [[Final Solution]].
* [[Kurt Gruber]] - First chairman of the [[Hitler Youth]] (1926-1931).
* [[Hans F. K. Günther|Hans Friedrich Karl Günther]] - Academic teaching racial theories and [[eugenics]].
* [[Franz Gürtner]] - Minister of Justice responsible for co-ordinating [[jurisprudence]] in the Third Reich.
* [[Werner von Gilsa]] - Infantry General.
* [[Adolf Hamann]] - Chief of the ''Gruppe Hamann ''division and commander of the garrisons of Bryansk and Bobruisk.
* [[Eugen Hadamovsky]] - National programming director for German radio and chief of staff in the Nazi Party's Central Propaganda Office (Reichspropagandaleitung) in Berlin from 1942-1944.
* [[Ernst Hanfstaengl]] - Confidante and early supporter of [[Adolf Hitler]].
* [[Karl Hanke]] - He served as Governor (Gauleiter) of [[Lower Silesia]] from 1941 to 1945 and as the final [[Reichsführer-SS]] (after Himmler was expelled by Hitler) for a few days in 1945.
* [[Fritz Hartjenstein]] - SS-Obersturmbannführer. Concentration camp commandant at [[Auschwitz Birkenau]], [[Natzweiler]] and [[Flossenbürg concentration camp|Flossenbürg]].
* [[Paul Hausser]] - SS-Oberstgruppenführer und Generaloberst der Waffen-SS. First commander of the military ''SS-Verfügungstruppe'' that grew into the Waffen-SS, in which Hausser was a prominent field commander.
* [[Franz Hayler]] - State Secretary and acting Reich Economics Minister during the latter part of World War II.
* [[Martin Heidegger]] - Eminent philosopher, NSDAP member supported Hitler in 1933.
* [[Erhard Heiden]] - Founding member of the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS), and its third ''Reichsf&uuml;hrer'' from 1927-29.
* [[August Heißmeyer]] - Leading member of the SS.
* [[Aribert Heim]] - Head doctor at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp.
* [[Eberhard Herf]] - Commander of Order Police in Minsk, head of the Minsk ghetto.
* [[Rudolf Hess]] (not to be confused with [[Rudolf Höß]]) - Deputy Führer to Hitler until his flight to [[Scotland]] on the eve of war with the [[Soviet Union]] in 1941.
* [[Walther Hewel]] - [[Diplomat]] and personal friend of Hitler.
* [[Werner Heyde]] - Psychiatrist and one of the main organizers of the T-4 Euthanasia Program.
* [[Reinhard Heydrich]] - SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, chief of the RSHA or [[Reichssicherheitshauptamt]] (Reich Main Security Office: including the [[Gestapo]], [[Sicherheitsdienst|SD]] and [[Kripo]] [[police]] agencies) and Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Acting Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia. He was the "right-hand man" to Himmler, and considered a principal architect of the [[Night of the Long Knives]] and the [[Final Solution]]. Assassinated in 1942 by British-trained Czech commandos.
* [[Konstantin Hierl]] - Head of the [[Reichsarbeitsdienst]] and an associate of Adolf Hitler before he came to power.
* [[Erich Hilgenfeldt]] - Head of the Nazi's Office For People's Welfare.
* [[Heinrich Himmler]] - Reichsführer-[[Schutzstaffel|SS]]. As head of the SS, Chief of the German Police and later the Minister of the Interior, he was one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich, and was also one of the main architects of the Holocaust.
* [[Hans Hinkel]] - Journalist and commissioner at the Reich Ministry for the People's Enlightenment and Propaganda.
* [[August Hirt]] - Chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg and instigator of a plan to build a study-collection of specialized human anatomical specimens. Over 100 Jews were killed for his program. Allied discovery of corpses, paperwork, and statements of laboratory assistants led to war crimes trial preparation, but Hirt committed suicide beforehand.
* '''[[Adolf Hitler]]''' - politician and leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was the absolute dictator of Germany from 1934 to 1945, with the title of Chancellor from 1933 to 1945 and with the title of ''Führer'' from 1934 to 1945.
* [[Hermann Höfle]] - Deputy to [[Odilo Globocnik]] in the Aktion Reinhard program. Played a key role in the "Harvest Festival" massacre of Jewish inmates of the various labour camps in the Lublin district in early November 1943.
* [[Rudolf Höß]] (not to be confused with [[Rudolf Hess]]) - SS-Obersturmbannführer. Commandant of [[Auschwitz Birkenau|Auschwitz]] concentration camp.
* [[Franz Hofer]] - Gauleiter of the [[State of Tyrol|Tyrol]] and [[Vorarlberg]] regions.
* [[Edmund Hoffmeister]] - Commander of the 383rd Panzer Division.
* [[Waldemar Hoven]] - SS-Hauptsturmführer and doctor at Buchenwald concentration camp responsible for medical experiments involving injecting camp inmates with Phenol.
* [[Adolf Hühnlein]] - Korpsführer (Corps Leader) of the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK), from 1934 until his death in 1942.
* [[Karl_Holz_(Nazi)|Karl Holz]] - protege of [[Julius Streicher]], succeeded Streichetr as ''Gauleiter'' of Franconia.
* [[Franz Josef Huber]] - former Munich political police department inspector with [[Heinrich Müller]] and in 1938 appointed chief of the State Police ([[Sicherheitspolizei|SiPo]]) and [[Gestapo]] for Vienna, the "Lower Danube", and "Upper Danube" regions.
* [[Karl Jäger]] - SS officer and [[Einsatzkommando]] leader and author of the "[[Jäger Report]]" detailing reports of mass murder in Lithuania between July and December 1941.
* [[Kurt Jahnke]] - Spy and head of the Jahnke Büro.
* [[Friedrich Jeckeln]] - Leader of one of the largest collection of ''[[Einsatzgruppen]]'' [[death squad]]s and personally responsible for ordering the deaths of over 100,000 Jews, Slavs, Roma, and other "undesirables."
* [[Alfred Jodl]] - Generaloberst and Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command ([[Oberkommando der Wehrmacht]], or OKW) during World War II, acting as deputy to [[Wilhelm Keitel]]. Personally signed the instruments of unconditional surrender at the end of the war in 1945.
* [[Hanns Johst]] - Playwright and [[Poet Laureate]] of the Nazi party.
* [[Hans Jüttner]] - SS-[[Obergruppenführer]]. Head of the [[SS-Führungshauptamt]] (SS Leadership Main Office) or SS-FHA.
* [[Rudolf Jung]] - An instrumental force and agitator of German-Czech National Socialism and, later on, a member of the German Nazi Party.
* [[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]] - SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei und Waffen-SS. Chief of the [[RSHA]] (Reich Main Security Office) a main section of the SS, after Heydrich's death in June 1942 to the end of World War II. He was the highest-ranking official to be tried at the Nuremberg Trials.
* [[Bronislav Kaminski]] - Head of Briansk-Lokot Republic.
* [[Hans Kammler]]- SS Construction projects and [[V-2 rocket|V-2]] program
* [[Herbert Kappler]] - Head of German police and security services in Rome.
* [[Herbert von Karajan|Herbert Ritter von Karajan]] - prominent Austrian-born musical conductor and DNSAP/NSDAP member. He conducted the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra for 35 years. He is the top-selling classical music recording artist of all time, having sold an estimated 200 million records.
* [[Siegfried Kasche]] - German [[Plenipotentiary|Minister Plenipotentiary]] to their ally the [[Independent State of Croatia]].
* [[Emil Kaschub]] - Doctor who conducted experiments on Nazi concentration camp prisoners.
* [[Karl Kaufmann]] - Founding member of the Nazi party and Gauleiter of Hamburg.
* [[Wilhelm Keitel]] - Field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall). Head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces) during World War II.
* [[Hanns Kerrl]] - Reichsminister of Church Affairs for the Third Reich.
* [[Dietrich Klagges]] - Premier of the [[Duchy of Brunswick]] between 1933 and 1945.
* [[Matthias Kleinheisterkamp]]
* [[Hans Ulrich Klintzsch]] - Second head of the SA, 1921-23
* [[Helmut Knochen]] - Senior commander of the [[Sicherheitspolizei]] (Security Police) in Paris during the Nazi occupation of France.
* [[Fritz Knoechlein]] - Squadron leader in the [[Schutzstaffel|''Schutzstaffel'']]''.''
* [[Erich Koch]] - Gauleiter of the NSDAP in [[East Prussia]] from 1928 until 1945, and Reichskomissar in [[Ukraine]] from 1941 until 1944.
* [[Ilse Koch]] - "The Bitch of Buchenwald." Wife of Karl Koch. Infamous for taking tattooed skin from murdered prisoners as souvenirs.
* [[Karl Otto Koch]] - Commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at [[Buchenwald]] (from 1937 to 1941), and later at Lublin ([[Majdanek]] camp).
* [[Max Koegel]] - SS-[[Obersturmbannführer]]. Concentration camp commander at Majdanek and Flossenbürg.
* [[Karl Koller (general)|Karl Koller]] - Chief of the General Staff of the Luftwaffe.
* [[Josef Kramer]] - Commandant of the [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp|Bergen-Belsen]] concentration camp.
* [[Bernhard Krüger]] - Leader of the VI F 4a Unit in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt responsible for, among other things, falsifying passports and documents.
* [[Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger]] - High-ranking member of the [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] and [[Schutzstaffel|SS]].
* [[Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach]] - Ran the [[Krupp|Friedrich Krupp AG]] heavy industry conglomerate from 1909 until 1941 and financier of the Nazi party. Succeeded by his son [[Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach]]
* [[Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach]] - member of [[Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft]]; Colonel In NSDAP Flying Corps; ran the [[Krupp|Friedrich Krupp AG]] heavy industry conglomerate from 1943 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1967
* [[Heinz Lammerding]] - Brigadier-colonel responsible for various reprisals.
* [[Hans Lammers]] - Head of the [[Reich Chancellery]].
* [[Herbert Lange]] - SS-[[Sturmbannführer]] and commandant of [[Chełmno extermination camp]], where he was implicated in thousands of gassings. Also led the execution of 1,558 mental patients at the [[Soldau concentration camp]].
* [[Rudolf Lange]] - SS-Standartenführer who served as commander in the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and all RSHA personnel in Riga, Latvia.
* [[Johanna Langefeld]] - Camp supervisor of Ravensbruck, Lichtenburg and [[Auschwitz Birkenau]] women's camps.
* [[Robert Ley]] - Head of the [[German Labour Front]] from 1933 to 1945.
* [[Arthur Liebehenschel]] - Commandant of [[Auschwitz Birkenau|Auschwitz]] and [[Majdanek]] death camps during World War II.
* [[Michael Lippert]] - Commander in the [[Schutzstaffel|''Schutzstaffel'']].
* [[Julius Lippert (politician)|Julius Lippert]] - Nazi activist and propaganda official.
* [[Wilhelm Loeper]] - [[Gauleiter]] in the [[Gau (country subdivision)|Gau]] of [[Magdeburg]]-[[Anhalt]].
* [[Hinrich Lohse]] - [[Gauleiter]] for Schleswig-Holstein and [[Third Reich|Reich]] [[Commissar]] for the [[Reichskommissariat Ostland|Ostland]].
* [[Werner Lorenz]] - Waffen-SS general and a leader of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, an organization charged with settling ethnic Germans in the Reich from other parts of Europe.
* [[Erich Ludendorff]] - General in the Imperial German Army and a veteran of [[World War I]]. He was a key player in the [[Beer Hall Putch]] of 1923 was considered an early leading member of the Nazi Party.
* [[Hanns Ludin]] - Diplomat and ambassador to [[Slovakia]].
* [[Martin Luther (diplomat)|Martin Luther]] - advisor to Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, and participant in the infamous [[Wannsee Conference]].
* [[Viktor Lutze]] - SA officer and important participant in the [[Night of the Long Knives]]. He succeeded [[Ernst Röhm]] as Stabschef (Commander of the [[Sturmabteilung|SA]]).
* [[Maria Mandel]] - Manageress of the [[Auschwitz Birkenau]] women's camp.
* [[Erich von Manstein]] - Field Marshall of the ''Wehrmacht''.
* [[Heinrich Matthes]] - Deputy commandant of Treblinka death camp.
* [[Emil Maurice]] - Personal friend of Hitler, first head of the SA and one of the founding members of the SS.
* [[Josef Mengele]] - SS-Hauptsturmführer and physician at the concentration camp at [[Auschwitz-Birkenau]]. Known for his experiments on the inmates at the camp.
* [[Willy Messerschmitt]] - Aeronautical engineer and head of the ''[[Bayerische Flugzeugwerke]]'' (BFW, later Messerschmitt AG); designer of several famous aircraft including the [[Bf.109]].
* [[Alfred Meyer]] - Deputy Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories.
* [[Kurt Meyer (Panzermeyer)|Kurt Meyer]] - SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS noted for his command of 1st SS Reconnaissance Battalion (LSSAH) and later the division commander of [[12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend]].
* [[Hermann Michel]] - Doctor at the concentration camp Sobibor
* [[Erhard Milch]] &ndash; ''[[Generalfeldmarschall]]''; Inspector-General of the ''Luftwaffe'', responsible for aircraft production.
* [[Leopold von Mildenstein]] - Pro-[[Zionism]] expert in the headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) under [[Reinhard Heydrich]] until 1936, when the planned mass immigration of Jews to [[Palestine]] fell out of favour. Mildenstein convinced [[Adolf Eichmann]] to transfer to his SS department which handled "Jewish Affairs".
* [[Wilhelm Mohnke]] - SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS. He was one of the original 120 members of the SS-Staff Guard (Stabswache) "Berlin" formed in March 1933. Mohnke rose to become the commander of the [[1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler]] (LSSAH) and later in April 1945, was appointed by Hitler as commander of the Berlin government district, nicknamed Die Zitadelle (The Citadel), including the [[Reich Chancellery]], [[Führerbunker]] and [[Reichstag building|Reichstag]].
* [[Hermann Muhs]] - Minister responsible for church and religious affairs.
* [[Heinrich Müller]] - SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei. Head of the [[Gestapo]] (Secret State Police) under [[Reinhard Heydrich]] as chief of the SiPo and later the RSHA.
* [[Eugen Munder]] - Early party organizer in [[Stuttgart]] and [[Gauleiter]] of [[Württemberg]] from 1925-1928.
* [[Wilhelm Murr]] - [[Gauleiter]] of [[Württemberg]], SS-Obergruppenführer and Reich Defense Commissar of Defense District V.
* [[Martin Mutschmann]] - [[Gauleiter]] of Saxony.
* [[Alfred Naujoks]] - SS-[[Sturmbannführer]] and leader of the [[Gleiwitz incident|attack on the Gleiwitz radio station]] on the eve of World War II.
* [[Arthur Nebe]] - SS-[[Gruppenführer]] und Generalleutnant der Polizei. Berlin Police Commissioner in the 1920s and an early member of both the Sturmabteilung (SA) and the Schutzstaffel (SS), as well as President of Interpol (from June 1942-43). Nebe was appointed head of the [[Kriminalpolizei]] (Criminal Police) or Kripo under Heydrich as chief of the SiPo and later the RSHA. Executed in 1944 for alleged involvement in the [[20 July Plot]].
* [[Konstantin von Neurath]] - [[Foreign Minister]] of Germany (1932-1938) and Reichsprotektor (Governor) of the [[Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia]] (1939-1941).
* [[Hans Nieland]] - Lord Mayor of [[Dresden]] from 1940 until 1945.
* [[Herta Oberheuser]] - Doctor at the [[Ravensbrück concentration camp]] from 1940 until 1943. Was the only female defendant in the [[Doctors' Trial|Nuremberg Medical Trial]].
* [[Paul Ogorzow]] - Squadron leader in the ''[[Sturmabteilung]].''
* [[Otto Ohlendorf]] - [[Schutzstaffel|SS]]-[[Gruppenführer]] and head of Inland-[[Sicherheitsdienst|SD]]. The Inland-SD was a department of the RSHA and responsible for intelligence and security within Nazi Germany.
* [[Jakiw Palij]]
* [[Helmuth von Pannwitz]] - Leader of the Cossack Cavalry Corps.
* [[Friedrich Paulus]] - Field Marshall who commanded the 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad. He later defected to the Soviet Union.
* [[Joachim Peiper]] - Waffen--SS commander.
* [[Artur Phleps]] - SS-[[Obergruppenführer]]. He saw action with the 5. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Wiking, and later was commander of the 7. SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division Prinz Eugen and the V SS Mountain Corps. He was killed in September 1944.
* [[Paul Pleiger]] - State adviser and corporate general director.
* [[Oswald Pohl]] - SS-Obergruppenführer. Organized and administrator of the concentration camps.
* [[Franz Pfeffer von Salomon]] - Supreme Leader of the [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] from its re-founding in 1925 until his removal in 1930 and Hitler's personal assumption of the title.
* [[Erich Priebke]] - Participant in the [[Ardeatine massacre]] in Rome on March 24, 1944.
* [[Hans-Adolf Prützmann]] - Superior SS and Police Leader, and an SS-Obergruppenführer.
* [[Rudolf Querner]] - Police Leader in Germany and Austria.
* [[Erich Raeder]] &mdash; ''[[Großadmiral]]'', Commander-in-Chief of the Navy (Kriegsmarine) 1936-1943.
* [[Friedrich Rainer]]
* [[Fritz-Georg von Rappard]] - Commander of 7th Infantry Division.
* [[Sigmund Rascher]] - Nazi doctor stationed at the Dachau Concentration Camp
* [[Walter Rauff]] - Commander of the gas van SS regiment.
* [[Hermann Rauschning]] - Nazi leader in Danzig
* [[Walter Reder]]
* [[Wilhelm Rediess]]
* [[Lothar Rendulic]]
* [[Theodor Adrian von Renteln]] - General Commissioner of Generalbezirk Litauen.
* [[Walther von Reichenau]] - ''[[Generalfeldmarschall]]'' and committed Nazi; he joined the Party in 1932 in violation of regulations and was one of the few ardent National Socialists among the Army's senior officers.
* [[Fritz Reinhardt]]
* [[Otto Ernst Remer]] - General of the ''Wehrmacht''.
* [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]] - [[Foreign Minister]] of Nazi Germany from 1938 until 1945.
* [[Ernst Röhm]] - a co-founder of the ''[[Sturmabteilung]]'' (Storm Battalion) or SA, the Nazi Party militia and later was the SA commander. In 1934, as part of the [[Night of the Long Knives]], he was executed on Hitler's orders as a potential rival.
* [[Erwin Rommel]] - [[Generalfeldmarschall]] known as "The Desert Fox", Rommel was a highly respected military tactician who led the famous [[Afrika Korps]]. He was later linked to the [[20 July Plot]] to assassinate Hitler, and forced to commit suicide.
* [[Eduard Roschmann]] - SS-''Obersturmführer'' and commandant of the Riga ghetto during 1943.
* [[Alfred Rosenberg]] - Nazi "philosopher" and Reich Minister for the Eastern Territories, tried at Nuremberg and executed on 16 October 1946.
* [[Erwin Rösener]] - SS-[[Obergruppenführer]], Higher SS and Police Leader, Commander SS Upper Division Alpenland (1941 - 1945)
* [[Ernst Rudin]]
* [[Bernhard Rust]]
* [[Alfred Saalwächter]] - Commander of Marine-Gruppenkommando West.
* [[Fritz Sauckel]] - [[Gauleiter]] of Thuringia, General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (1942-45)
* [[Hjalmar Schacht]]
* [[Gustav Adolf Scheel]]
* [[Walther Schellenberg]] - SS-Brigadeführer who rose through the SS as Heydrich's deputy. In March 1942, he became Chief of Amt VI, [[Sicherheitsdienst#Ausland-SD|Ausland-SD]], foreign intelligence branch of the SD (which, by then, was a department of the RSHA). Later, following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944, he became head of all foreign intelligence.
* [[Hans Schemm]]
* [[Wilhelm Schepmann]]
* [[Ludwig Maximilian Erwin von Scheubner-Richter|Max Scheubner-Richter]] - senior most Nazi killed during the Beer Hall Putsch, ideologue and mentor to [[Alfred Rosenberg]].
* [[Baldur von Schirach]] - leader of [[Hitler Youth]] (1931-40), [[Gauleiter]] of Vienna (1940-45).
* [[Ernst Schlange]] - [[Gauleiter]] of Gau Brandenburg.
* [[Franz Schlegelberger]]
* [[Carl Schmitt]]
* [[Kurt Schmitt]]
* [[Paul Schmitthenner]]
* [[Gertrud Scholtz-Klink]]
* [[Ferdinand Schörner]] - General of the ''Wehrmacht''. Briefly served as Commander-in-chief of the Germany Army in 1945 after Hitler's death.
* [[Julius Schreck]] - Co-founder of the SA, first commander of the SS. Later Hitler's personal chauffeur.
* [[Horst Schumann]] - SS-Sturmbannführer (major) and medical doctor who conducted sterilization and castration experiments at Auschwitz.
* [[Franz Xaver Schwarz]] - National Treasurer of the NSDAP 1925-1945 and head of the ''[[Reichszeugmeisterei]]'' or National Material Control Office. Promoted to ''SS-Oberstgruppenführer in 1944.''
* [[Heinrich Schwarz]]
* [[Siegfried Seidl]]
* [[Wolfram Sievers]] - General Secretary of the [[Ahnenerbe]]
* [[Franz Seldte]]
* [[Arthur Seyss-Inquart]] - Austrian Nazi; upon being appointed Chancellor in 1938 he invited in German troops resulting in his country's annexation. Later deputy to [[Hans Frank]] in the [[General Government]] of occupied [[Poland]] (1939-40), and [[Reichskommissar]] of the Netherlands (1940-44). Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
* [[Gustav Simon]]
* [[Franz Six]] - Chief of Amt VII, Written Records of the [[Reichssicherheitshauptamt]] (RSHA) which dealt with ideological tasks. These included the creation of anti-semitic, anti-masonic propaganda, the sounding of public opinion and monitoring of Nazi indoctrination by the public.
* [[Albert Speer]] - architect for Nazis' offices and residences, Party rallies and State buildings (1932-42), Minister of Armaments and War Production (1942-45).
* [[Franz Stangl]] - SS-Hauptsturmführer who served as the commandant of the Sobibór and Treblinka extermination camps.
* [[Johannes Stark]]
* [[Otto Steinbrinck]]
* [[Felix Steiner]] - SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS. He was chosen by Himmler to oversee the creation of, and command the volunteer Waffen-SS Division, [[5th SS Panzer Division Wiking]].
* [[Walter Stennes]] - the Berlin commandant of the Sturmabteilung (SA), who in the summer of 1930 and again in the spring of 1931 led a revolt against the NSDAP in Berlin as these SA members saw their organization as a revolutionary group, the vanguard of a socialist order that would overthrow the hated Republic. Both revolts were put down and Stennes was expelled from the Nazi Party. He left Germany in 1933 and worked as a military adviser to Chiang Kai-shek.
* [[Gregor Strasser]] - Gauleiter of Munich and Bayreuth, head of propaganda until 1929.
* [[Otto Strasser]]
* [[Julius Streicher]] - founder and editor of anti-semitic Nazi newspaper [[Der Stürmer]] (1923-1945), [[Gauleiter]] of Franconia (1929-40).
* [[Karl Strölin]] - Lord Mayor of Stuttgart (1933-1945) and Chairman of the 'Deutsches Ausland-Institut' (DAI)
* [[Jurgen Stroop]] - [[Schutzstaffel|''Schutzstaffel'']]'' ''commander in Gnesen and head of State Auxiliary police.
* [[Wilhelm Stuckart]]
* [[Kurt Student]] - Commander of the ''Fallschirmjäger.''
* [[Otto von Stülpnagel]]
* [[Friedrich Syrup]]
* [[Günther Tamaschke]] - SS-''Standartenführer'' and commandant of the Lichtenburg and Ravensbrück concentration camps.
* [[Josef Terboven]]
* [[Otto Georg Thierack]] - Minister of Justice for the Third Reich.
* [[Otto Thorbeck]] - SS judge
* [[Fritz Todt]] - civil engineer, Director of the Head Office for Engineering, General Commissioner for the Regulation of the Construction Industry, and founder and head of [[Organisation Todt]]. He died in a plane crash in February, 1942. He was (posthumously) the first recipient of the [[German Order (decoration)|German Order]].
* [[Adolf von Trotha]]
* [[Hans von Tschammer und Osten]]
* [[Edmund Veesenmayer]] - Plenipotentiary to Hungary and SS-Brigadeführer
* [[Otto Wagener]], soldier and economist. Was successively Chief of Staff of the SA, head of the Party Economic Policy Section, and Reich Commissar for the Economy. Subsequently served at the front, reaching the rank of [[Generalmajor]].
* [[Adolf Wagner]] - ''Gauleiter'' of München-Oberbayern and Bavarian Interior Minister
* [[Gerhard Wagner (Nazi physician)|Gerhard Wagner]]
* [[Horst Wagner]] - Head of Inland II, liaison between [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]] and [[Heinrich Himmler]], co-organizer of the Feldscher Action.
* [[Josef Wagner (Gauleiter)|Josef Wagner]]
* [[Robert Heinrich Wagner]]
* [[Wilhelm Weiß]]
* [[Horst Wessel]] - ''Sturmführer'' in the Berlin SA and author of the ''[[Horst-Wessel-Lied]] ("Die Fahne Hoch")'', the Party anthem. Elevated to martyr status by Nazi propaganda after his 1930 murder&ndash; by Communists, according to the Nazis, or by a rival pimp, according to their opponents.
* [[Karl Maria Wiligut]]
* [[Max Winkler]]
* [[Christian Wirth]] - SS-Obersturmführer. He was a senior German police and SS officer during the program to exterminate the Jewish people of occupied Poland during World War II, known as "Operation Reinhard". Wirth was a top aide of [[Odilo Globocnik]], the overall director of "[[Operation Reinhard]]" (Aktion Reinhard or Einsatz Reinhard).
* [[Hermann Wirth]]
* [[Eduard Wirths]] - Chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarzt) at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945.
* [[Dieter Wisliceny]] - SS-Hauptsturmführer
* [[Lothar Witzke]]
* [[Karl Wolff]] - SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Waffen-SS. He became Chief of Personal Staff to the Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler) and SS Liaison Officer to Hitler until his replacement in 1943. From 1943 to 1945, Wolff was the Supreme SS and Police Leader of the 'Italien' area. By 1945 Wolff was acting military commander of Italy, and in that capacity negotiated the surrender of all the forces in the Southwest Front.
* [[Max Wünsche]] - Regimental commander in the Waffen-SS and one-time adjutant to Hitler himself,
* [[Alfred Wünnenberg]] - SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei. Commander of the [[4th SS|SS-Polizei-Division]], 1941-1943; Chief of the [[Ordnungspolizei]], 1943–1945 after [[Kurt Daluege]]
* [[Adolf Ziegler]]
* [[Franz Ziereis]] - Commandant of Mauthausen concentration camp.

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[[File:The Rise of the Nazis History|thumb|right|335 px|link=Special:FilePath/The_Rise_of_the_Nazis_History]]US Navy SEAL Chris Kyle was a white supremacist Neo-Nazi and showed strong admiration for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

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