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*[[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.

*[[Alfred Meyer]] - Deputy Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories.

*[[Alfred Naujoks]] - SS-[[Sturmbannführer]] and leader of the [[Gleiwitz incident|attack on the Gleiwitz radio station]] on the eve of World War II.

* [[Alfred Rosenberg]] - Nazi "philosopher" and Reich Minister for the Eastern Territories, tried at Nuremberg and executed on 16 October 1946.

*[[Alfred Saalwächter]] - Commander of Marine-Gruppenkommando West.

*[[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]]

*[[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

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*[[Aribert Heim]] - Head doctor at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp.

*[[Arthur Greiser]] - Chief of Civil Administration and [[Gauleiter]] in the military district of Greater Poland.

*[[Arthur Liebehenschel]] - Commandant of [[Auschwitz Birkenau|Auschwitz]] and [[Majdanek]] death camps during 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]].

*[[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.

*[[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.

*[[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.

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*[[Benno von Arent]] - Responsible for art, theatres, and movies in the Third Reich.

*[[Bernhard Krüger]] - Leader of the VI F 4a Unit in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt responsible for, among other things, falsifying passports and documents.

*[[Bernhard Rust]]

*[[Bronislav Kaminski]] - Head of Briansk-Lokot Republic.

*[[Carl Clauberg]] - Doctor who conducted [[Nazi Medical Experimentation|medical experiments on human beings]] in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

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*[[Eduard Roschmann]] - SS-''Obersturmführer'' and commandant of the Riga ghetto during 1943.

* [[Eduard Wirths]] - Chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarzt) at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945.

*[[Emil Kaschub]] - Doctor who conducted experiments on Nazi concentration camp prisoners.

*[[Emil Maurice]] - Personal friend of Hitler, first head of the SA and one of the founding members of the SS.

*[[Erhard Heiden]] - Founding member of the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS), and its third ''Reichsführer'' from 1927-29.

*[[Erhard Milch]] – ''[[Generalfeldmarschall]]''; Inspector-General of the ''Luftwaffe'', responsible for aircraft production.

*[[Erich Hilgenfeldt]] - Head of the Nazi's Office For People's Welfare.

*[[Erich Koch]] - Gauleiter of the NSDAP in East Prussia from 1928 until 1945, and Reichskomissar in Ukraine from 1941 until 1944.

* [[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.

*[[Erich Priebke]] - Participant in the [[Ardeatine massacre]] in Rome on March 24, 1944.

* [[Erich Raeder]] — ''[[Großadmiral]]'', Commander-in-Chief of the Navy (Kriegsmarine) 1936-1943.

*[[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.

*[[Erich von Manstein]] - Field Marshall of the ''Wehrmacht''.

*[[Ernst Biberstein]] - SS-Obersturmbannführer, member of the SD and commanding officer of Einsatzkommando 6.

*[[Ernst Boepple]] - State Secretary of the General Government in Poland, serving as deputy to Deputy Governor [[Josef Bühler]]. Deeply implicated in the [[The Holocaust|Final Solution]].

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*[[Ernst Rudin]]

*[[Ernst Schlange]] - [[Gauleiter]] of Gau Brandenburg.

*[[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.

*[[Erwin Rösener]] - SS-[[Obergruppenführer]], Higher SS and Police Leader, Commander SS Upper Division Alpenland (1941 - 1945)

*[[Ewald von Demandowsky]] - Editor of propaganda magazine, subordinate ''Reichsfilmdramatug ''within the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and propaganda.

*[[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.

* [[Eugen Munder]] - Early party organizer in Stuttgart and [[Gauleiter]] of Württemberg from 1925-1928.

*[[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]].

*[[Ferdinand Schörner]] - General of the ''Wehrmacht''. Briefly served as Commander-in-chief of the Germany Army in 1945 after Hitler's death.

*[[Franz Breithaupt]], NSDAP deputy to the Reichstag between 1933–1945.

*[[Franz Gürtner]] - Minister of Justice responsible for co-ordinating [[jurisprudence]] in the Third Reich.

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*[[Franz Ziereis]] - Commandant of Mauthausen concentration camp.

*[[Friedrich Alpers]] - SS-''Obergruppenführer'' and Minister of the Free State of Brunswick.

*[[Friedrich Buchardt]] - Head of an SS death squad and inventor of the scale designed to measure racial purity.

*[[Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger]] - High-ranking member of the [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] and [[Schutzstaffel|SS]].

*[[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."

*[[Friedrich Paulus]] - Field Marshall who commanded the 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad. He later defeated to the Soviet Union.

*[[Friedrich Rainer]]

* [[Friedrich Syrup]]

*[[Fritz Hartjenstein]] - SS-Obersturmbannführer. Concentration camp commandant at [[Auschwitz Birkenau]], [[Natzweiler]] and [[Flossenbürg concentration camp|Flossenbürg]].

*[[Fritz Knöchlein]] - Squadron leader in the ''[[Schutzstaffel]].''

*[[Fritz Reinhardt]]

*[[Fritz Sauckel]] - [[Gauleiter]] of Thuringia, General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (1942-45).

*[[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.

*[[Fritz-Georg von Rappard]] - Commander of 7th Infantry Division.

*[[Gerda Bernigau]] - Chief wardress of the Gross-Rosen region.

*[[Gerhard Wagner (Nazi physician)|Gerhard Wagner]]

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*[[Gottfried Feder]] - Economic theorist and one of the early leaders of the NSDAP.

*[[Gottlob Berger]] - Chief of Staff for [[Waffen-SS]] and head of the SS's main leadership office.

*[[Gregor Strasser]] - Gauleiter of Munich and Bayreuth, head of propaganda until 1929.

*[[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]].

*[[Günther Tamaschke]] - SS-''Standartenführer'' and commandant of the Lichtenburg and Ravensbrück concentration camps.

* [[Gustav Adolf Scheel]]

* [[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]]

*[[Gustav Simon]]

*[[Hanns Johst]] - Playwright and Poet Laureate of the Nazi party.

*[[Hanns Kerrl]] - Reichsminister of Church Affairs for the Third Reich.

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* [[Hans Frank]] - Governor-General of occupied Poland and involved in perpetration of the [[Holocaust]].

*[[Hans Fritzsche]] - Senior official at the Ministry for Propaganda.

*[[Hans F. K. Günther|Hans Friedrich Karl Günther]] - Academic teaching racial theories and [[eugenics]].

* [[Hans Hinkel]] - Journalist and commissioner at the Reich Ministry for the People's Enlightenment and Propaganda.

*[[Hans Jüttner]] - SS-[[Obergruppenführer]]. Head of the [[SS-Führungshauptamt]] (SS Leadership Main Office) or SS-FHA.

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*[[Heinrich Schwarz]]

*[[Heinz Auerswald]] - Commissioner for the Jewish residential district in Warsaw from April 1941 to November 1942.

*[[Heinz Lammerding]] - Brigadier-colonel responsible for various reprisals.

*[[Hellmuth Becker]] - Head of SS Division Totenkopf.

*[[Helmut Bischoff]] - SS-Obersturmbannführer. [[Gestapo]] chief of Poznan and Magdeberg and later head of security for Nazi Germany's V-weapons program.

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*[[Helmuth von Pannwitz]] - Leader of the Cossack Cavalry Corps.

*[[Herbert Backe]] - Minister of Food (appointed 1942) and Minister of Agriculture (appointed 1943).

*[[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.

*[[Herbert Kappler]] - Head of German police and security services in Rome.

*[[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]].

* [[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.

* [[Hermann Esser]] - Propagandist and editor of Nazi newspaper [[Völkischer Beobachter]].

*[[Hermann Fegelein]] - ''Gruppenführer'' in the Waffen-SS.

*[[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]].

*[[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.

*[[Hermann Michel]] - Doctor at the concentration camp Sobibor

*[[Hermann Muhs]] - Minister responsible for church and religious affairs.

*[[Hermann Rauschning]] - Nazi leader in Danzig

*[[Hermann Wirth]]

*[[Herta Bothe]] - Concentration camp guard at both Ravensbrück-Stutthof and Bergen-Belsen.

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*[[Johannes Stark]]

*[[Josef Berchtold]] - Very early Party member, and the second ''Reichsführer-SS'' from 1926-27.

*[[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.

*[[Josef Dietrich|Josef "Sepp" Dietrich]] - rose to the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer in the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]''; was the original commander of [[Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler]] (LSSAH), and later commander of the 6th SS Panzer Army.

*[[Josef Kramer]] - Commandant of the [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp|Bergen-Belsen]] concentration camp.

*[[Josef Meisinger]] - Head of the [[Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion]], commander of the Warsaw State Police and Gestapo liaison to the German embassy in Tokyo.

* [[Josef Mengele]] - SS-Hauptsturmführer and physician at the concentration camp at [[Auschwitz-Birkenau]]. Known for his experiments on the inmates at the camp.

*[[Josef Terboven]]

* [[Josef Wagner (Gauleiter)|Josef Wagner]]

*[[Julius Lippert (politician)|Julius Lippert]] - Nazi activist and propaganda official.

*[[Julius Schreck]] - Co-founder of the SA, first commander of the SS. Later Hitler's personal chauffeur.

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* [[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.

*[[Klaus Barbie]] - Head of the [[Gestapo]] in Lyon. Nicknamed "the Butcher of Lyon" for his use of [[torture]] on prisoners.

*[[Konstantin Hierl]] - Head of the [[Reichsarbeitsdienst]] and an associate of Adolf Hitler before he came to power.

*[[Konstantin von Neurath]] - [[Foreign Minister]] of Germany (1932-1938) and Reichsprotektor (Governor) of the [[Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia]] (1939-1941).

*[[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.

* [[Kurt Franz]] - Head of Treblinka death camp until 1943.

*[[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.

*[[Kurt Gruber]] - First chairman of the [[Hitler Youth]] (1926-1931).

*[[Kurt Jahnke]] - Spy and head of the Jahnke Büro.

*[[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]].

*[[Kurt Schmitt]]

* [[Kurt Student]] - Commander of the ''Fallschirmjäger.''

*[[Leonardo Conti]] - Head of the Reich Physicians' Chamber (Reichsärztekammer) and leader of the National Socialist German Doctors' League (Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Ärztebund or NSDÄB).

*[[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".

*[[Lothar Rendulic]]

* [[Lothar Witzke]]

*[[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]].

*[[Ludwig Fischer]] - Governor of Warsaw

*[[Margot Dreschel]] - Head of the camp offices at [[Auschwitz Birkenau]].

*[[Maria Mandel]] - Manageress of the [[Auschwitz Birkenau]] women's camp.

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*[[Martin Luther (diplomat)|Martin Luther]] - advisor to Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, and participant in the infamous [[Wannsee Conference]].

* [[Martin Mutschmann]] - [[Gauleiter]] of Saxony.

*[[Matthias Kleinheisterkamp]]

*[[Max Amann]] - Head of Nazi publishing house [[Eher-Verlag]]

*[[Max Koegel]] - SS-[[Obersturmbannführer]]. Concentration camp commander at Majdanek and Flossenbürg.

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*[[Otto Steinbrinck]]

*[[Otto Strasser]]

*[[Otto Georg Thierack]] - Minister of Justice for the Third Reich.

* [[Otto Thorbeck]] - SS judge

*[[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]].

*[[Otto von Stülpnagel]]

*[[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 General-Major.

*[[Paul Blobel]] - SS commander and officer in the ''[[Einsatzgruppen]]'' primarily responsible for the Babi Yar massacre at Kiev.

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*[[Reinhard Heydrich]] - SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, chief of the RSHA or [[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.

*[[Richard Baer (Nazi)|Richard Baer]] - Commander of the [[Auschwitz Birkenau]] [[Concentration Camp|concentration camp]] from May 1944 to February 1945.

*[[Richard Walther Darré]] - Minister of Food and Agriculture from 1933 to 1942.

*[[Richard Drauz]] - Kreisleiter of Heilbronn.

* [[Richard Euringer]] - Writer who selected 18,000 "unsuitable" books which did not conform to Nazi ideology and were publicly burned.

*[[Richard Glücks]] - SS officer and inspector of concentration camps.

*[[Robert Ley]] - Head of the [[German Labour Front]] from 1933 to 1945.

*[[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.

*[[Robert Heinrich Wagner]]

*[[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.

*[[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.

* [[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.

*[[Rudolf Höß]] (not to be confused with [[Rudolf Hess]]) - SS-Obersturmbannführer. Commandant of [[Auschwitz Birkenau|Auschwitz]] concentration camp.

* [[Rudolf Jung]] - An instrumental force and agitator of German-Czech National Socialism and, later on, a member of the German Nazi Party.

* [[Rudolf Lange]] - SS-Standartenführer who served as commander in the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and all RSHA personnel in Riga, Latvia.

*[[Rudolf Querner]] - Police Leader in Germany and Austria.

*[[Siegfried Fehmer]] - Chief administrator of the ''[[Politische Abteilung]] ''in Norway.

*[[Siegfried Kasche]] - German Plenipotentiary to their ally the [[Ustaše|Independent State of Croatia]].

*[[Siegfried Seidl]]

* [[Sigmund Rascher]] - Nazi doctor stationed at the Dachau Concentration Camp

*[[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.

* [[Theodor Adrian von Renteln]] - General Commissioner of Generalbezirk Litauen.

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* [[Werner Heyde]] - Psychiatrist and one of the main organizers of the T-4 Euthanasia Program.

* [[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.

*[[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]].

*[[Werner von Fritsch]] - [[Generaloberst]], Commander-in-Chief of the Army 1935-1938. Forced out in the [[Blomberg-Fritsch Affair]].

*[[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]].~~

*[[Werner von Gilsa]] - Infantry General.

*[[Wilhelm Schepmann]]

*[[Wilhelm Frick]] - Minister of the Interior until August 1943 and later appointed to the ceremonial post of Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.

*[[Willy Messerschmitt]] - Aeronautical engineer and head of the ''[[Bayerische Flugzeugwerke]]'' (BFW, later Messerschmitt AG); designer of several famous aircraft including the Bf.109.

*[[Wolfram Sievers]] - General Secretary of the [[Ahnenerbe]]<br />

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Richard Drauz]] - Kreisleiter of Heilbronn.

* [[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.

* [[Hermann Fegelein]] - ''Gruppenführer'' in the Waffen-SS.

* [[Siegfried Fehmer]] - Chief administrator of the ''[[Politische Abteilung]] ''in Norway.

* [[Ludwig Fischer]] - Governor of Warsaw

* [[Kurt Franz]] - Head of Treblinka death camp until 1943.

* [[Wilhelm Frick]] - Minister of the Interior until August 1943 and later appointed to the ceremonial post of Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.

* [[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.

* [[Richard Glücks]] - SS officer and inspector of concentration camps.

* [[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]].

* [[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.

* [[Kurt Gruber]] - First chairman of the [[Hitler Youth]] (1926-1931).

* [[Hans F. K. Günther|Hans Friedrich Karl Günther]] - Academic teaching racial theories and [[eugenics]].

* [[Fritz Hartjenstein]] - SS-Obersturmbannführer. Concentration camp commandant at [[Auschwitz Birkenau]], [[Natzweiler]] and [[Flossenbürg concentration camp|Flossenbürg]].

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Rudolf Höß]] (not to be confused with [[Rudolf Hess]]) - SS-Obersturmbannführer. Commandant of [[Auschwitz Birkenau|Auschwitz]] concentration camp.

* [[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."

* [[Rudolf Jung]] - An instrumental force and agitator of German-Czech National Socialism and, later on, a member of the German Nazi Party.

*[[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.

* [[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 to their ally the [[Ustaše|Independent State of Croatia]].

* [[Emil Kaschub]] - Doctor who conducted experiments on Nazi concentration camp prisoners.

* [[Wilhelm Keitel]] - Field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall). Head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces) during World War II.

* [[Matthias Kleinheisterkamp]]

*[[Wilhelm Loeper]] - [[Gauleiter]] in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt.

* [[Fritz Knöchlein]] - Squadron leader in the ''[[Schutzstaffel]].''

*[[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.

* [[Erich Koch]] - Gauleiter of the NSDAP in East Prussia from 1928 until 1945, and Reichskomissar in Ukraine from 1941 until 1944.

* [[Josef Kramer]] - Commandant of the [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp|Bergen-Belsen]] concentration camp.

* [[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]]

* [[Heinz Lammerding]] - Brigadier-colonel responsible for various reprisals.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Wilhelm Loeper]] - [[Gauleiter]] in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt.

* [[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.

* [[Erich von Manstein]] - Field Marshall of the ''Wehrmacht''.

* [[Emil Maurice]] - Personal friend of Hitler, first head of the SA and one of the founding members of the SS.

* [[Josef Meisinger]] - Head of the [[Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion]], commander of the Warsaw State Police and Gestapo liaison to the German embassy in Tokyo.

* [[Josef Mengele]] - SS-Hauptsturmführer and physician at the concentration camp at [[Auschwitz-Birkenau]]. Known for his experiments on the inmates at the camp.

* [[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]] – ''[[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.

* [[Hermann Muhs]] - Minister responsible for church and religious affairs.

* [[Werner von Gilsa]] - Infantry General.

* [[Wilhelm Murr]] - [[Gauleiter]] of Württemberg, SS-Obergruppenführer and Reich Defense Commissar of Defense District V.

* [[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]].

* [[Friedrich Paulus]] - Field Marshall who commanded the 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad. He later defected to the Soviet Union.

* [[Erich Priebke]] - Participant in the [[Ardeatine massacre]] in Rome on March 24, 1944.

* [[Rudolf Querner]] - Police Leader in Germany and Austria.

* [[Erich Raeder]] — ''[[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

* [[Hermann Rauschning]] - Nazi leader in Danzig

* [[Wilhelm Rediess]]

* [[~~Fritz Reinhardt~~]]

*[[Wilhelm Schepmann]]

* [[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.

* [[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)

* [[Bernhard Rust]]

* [[Alfred Saalwächter]] - Commander of Marine-Gruppenkommando West.

* [[Fritz Sauckel]] - [[Gauleiter]] of Thuringia, General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (1942-45)

* [[Gustav Adolf Scheel]]

* [[Kurt Schmitt]]

* [[Ferdinand Schörner]] - General of the ''Wehrmacht''. Briefly served as Commander-in-chief of the Germany Army in 1945 after Hitler's death.

* [[Siegfried Seidl]]

* [[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]]

* [[Gregor Strasser]] - Gauleiter of Munich and Bayreuth, head of propaganda until 1929.

* [[Wilhelm Stuckart]]

* [[~~Kurt Student]] - Commander of the ''Fallschirmjäger.''~~

*[[Wilhelm Weiß]]

* [[Otto von Stülpnagel]]

*[[Willy Messerschmitt]] - Aeronautical engineer and head of the ''[[Bayerische Flugzeugwerke]]'' (BFW, later Messerschmitt AG); designer of several famous aircraft including the Bf.109.

* [[Friedrich Syrup]]

*[[Wolfram Sievers]] - General Secretary of the [[Ahnenerbe]].

* [[~~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.~~

* [[Josef Wagner (Gauleiter)|Josef Wagner]]

* [[Robert Heinrich Wagner]]

* [[Wilhelm Weiß]]

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 *[[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.
 *[[Alfred Meyer]] - Deputy Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories.
+*[[Alfred Naujoks]] - SS-[[Sturmbannführer]] and leader of the [[Gleiwitz incident|attack on the Gleiwitz radio station]] on the eve of World War II.
+* [[Alfred Rosenberg]] - Nazi "philosopher" and Reich Minister for the Eastern Territories, tried at Nuremberg and executed on 16 October 1946.
+*[[Alfred Saalwächter]] - Commander of Marine-Gruppenkommando West.
 *[[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]]
 *[[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
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 *[[Aribert Heim]] - Head doctor at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp.
 *[[Arthur Greiser]] - Chief of Civil Administration and [[Gauleiter]] in the military district of Greater Poland.
+*[[Arthur Liebehenschel]] - Commandant of [[Auschwitz Birkenau|Auschwitz]] and [[Majdanek]] death camps during 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]].
+*[[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.
 *[[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.
 *[[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.
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 *[[Benno von Arent]] - Responsible for art, theatres, and movies in the Third Reich.
 *[[Bernhard Krüger]] - Leader of the VI F 4a Unit in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt responsible for, among other things, falsifying passports and documents.
+*[[Bernhard Rust]]
 *[[Bronislav Kaminski]] - Head of Briansk-Lokot Republic.
 *[[Carl Clauberg]] - Doctor who conducted [[Nazi Medical Experimentation|medical experiments on human beings]] in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
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 *[[Eduard Roschmann]] - SS-''Obersturmführer'' and commandant of the Riga ghetto during 1943.
 * [[Eduard Wirths]] - Chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarzt) at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945.
+*[[Emil Kaschub]] - Doctor who conducted experiments on Nazi concentration camp prisoners.
+*[[Emil Maurice]] - Personal friend of Hitler, first head of the SA and one of the founding members of the SS.
 *[[Erhard Heiden]] - Founding member of the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS), and its third ''Reichsf&uuml;hrer'' from 1927-29.
+*[[Erhard Milch]] &ndash; ''[[Generalfeldmarschall]]''; Inspector-General of the ''Luftwaffe'', responsible for aircraft production.
+*[[Erich Hilgenfeldt]] - Head of the Nazi's Office For People's Welfare.
+*[[Erich Koch]] - Gauleiter of the NSDAP in East Prussia from 1928 until 1945, and Reichskomissar in Ukraine from 1941 until 1944.
+* [[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.
+*[[Erich Priebke]] - Participant in the [[Ardeatine massacre]] in Rome on March 24, 1944.
+* [[Erich Raeder]] &mdash; ''[[Großadmiral]]'', Commander-in-Chief of the Navy (Kriegsmarine) 1936-1943.
 *[[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.
+*[[Erich von Manstein]] - Field Marshall of the ''Wehrmacht''.
 *[[Ernst Biberstein]] - SS-Obersturmbannführer, member of the SD and commanding officer of Einsatzkommando 6.
 *[[Ernst Boepple]] - State Secretary of the General Government in Poland, serving as deputy to Deputy Governor [[Josef Bühler]]. Deeply implicated in the [[The Holocaust|Final Solution]].
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 *[[Ernst Rudin]]
 *[[Ernst Schlange]] - [[Gauleiter]] of Gau Brandenburg.
+*[[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.
+*[[Erwin Rösener]] - SS-[[Obergruppenführer]], Higher SS and Police Leader, Commander SS Upper Division Alpenland (1941 - 1945)
 *[[Ewald von Demandowsky]] - Editor of propaganda magazine, subordinate ''Reichsfilmdramatug ''within the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and propaganda.
 *[[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.
 * [[Eugen Munder]] - Early party organizer in Stuttgart and [[Gauleiter]] of Württemberg from 1925-1928.
 *[[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]].
+*[[Ferdinand Schörner]] - General of the ''Wehrmacht''. Briefly served as Commander-in-chief of the Germany Army in 1945 after Hitler's death.
 *[[Franz Breithaupt]], NSDAP deputy to the Reichstag between 1933–1945.
 *[[Franz Gürtner]] - Minister of Justice responsible for co-ordinating [[jurisprudence]] in the Third Reich.
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 *[[Franz Ziereis]] - Commandant of Mauthausen concentration camp.
 *[[Friedrich Alpers]] - SS-''Obergruppenführer'' and Minister of the Free State of Brunswick.
+*[[Friedrich Buchardt]] - Head of an SS death squad and inventor of the scale designed to measure racial purity.
 *[[Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger]] - High-ranking member of the [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] and [[Schutzstaffel|SS]].
+*[[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."
+*[[Friedrich Paulus]] - Field Marshall who commanded the 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad. He later defeated to the Soviet Union.
+*[[Friedrich Rainer]]
+* [[Friedrich Syrup]]
+*[[Fritz Hartjenstein]] - SS-Obersturmbannführer. Concentration camp commandant at [[Auschwitz Birkenau]], [[Natzweiler]] and [[Flossenbürg concentration camp|Flossenbürg]].
+*[[Fritz Knöchlein]] - Squadron leader in the ''[[Schutzstaffel]].''
+*[[Fritz Reinhardt]]
+*[[Fritz Sauckel]] - [[Gauleiter]] of Thuringia, General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (1942-45).
+*[[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.
+*[[Fritz-Georg von Rappard]] - Commander of 7th Infantry Division.
 *[[Gerda Bernigau]] - Chief wardress of the Gross-Rosen region.
 *[[Gerhard Wagner (Nazi physician)|Gerhard Wagner]]
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 *[[Gottfried Feder]] - Economic theorist and one of the early leaders of the NSDAP.
 *[[Gottlob Berger]] - Chief of Staff for [[Waffen-SS]] and head of the SS's main leadership office.
+*[[Gregor Strasser]] - Gauleiter of Munich and Bayreuth, head of propaganda until 1929.
 *[[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]].
+*[[Günther Tamaschke]] - SS-''Standartenführer'' and commandant of the Lichtenburg and Ravensbrück concentration camps.
+* [[Gustav Adolf Scheel]]
+* [[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]]
+*[[Gustav Simon]]
 *[[Hanns Johst]] - Playwright and Poet Laureate of the Nazi party.
 *[[Hanns Kerrl]] - Reichsminister of Church Affairs for the Third Reich.
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 * [[Hans Frank]] - Governor-General of occupied Poland and involved in perpetration of the [[Holocaust]].
 *[[Hans Fritzsche]] - Senior official at the Ministry for Propaganda.
+*[[Hans F. K. Günther|Hans Friedrich Karl Günther]] - Academic teaching racial theories and [[eugenics]].
 * [[Hans Hinkel]] - Journalist and commissioner at the Reich Ministry for the People's Enlightenment and Propaganda.
 *[[Hans Jüttner]] - SS-[[Obergruppenführer]]. Head of the [[SS-Führungshauptamt]] (SS Leadership Main Office) or SS-FHA.
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 *[[Heinrich Schwarz]]
 *[[Heinz Auerswald]] - Commissioner for the Jewish residential district in Warsaw from April 1941 to November 1942.
+*[[Heinz Lammerding]] - Brigadier-colonel responsible for various reprisals.
 *[[Hellmuth Becker]] - Head of SS Division Totenkopf.
 *[[Helmut Bischoff]] - SS-Obersturmbannführer. [[Gestapo]] chief of Poznan and Magdeberg and later head of security for Nazi Germany's V-weapons program.
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 *[[Helmuth von Pannwitz]] - Leader of the Cossack Cavalry Corps.
 *[[Herbert Backe]] - Minister of Food (appointed 1942) and Minister of Agriculture (appointed 1943).
+*[[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.
+*[[Herbert Kappler]] - Head of German police and security services in Rome.
+*[[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]].
+* [[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.
+* [[Hermann Esser]] - Propagandist and editor of Nazi newspaper [[Völkischer Beobachter]].
+*[[Hermann Fegelein]] - ''Gruppenführer'' in the Waffen-SS.
+*[[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]].
+*[[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.
+*[[Hermann Michel]] - Doctor at the concentration camp Sobibor
+*[[Hermann Muhs]] - Minister responsible for church and religious affairs.
+*[[Hermann Rauschning]] - Nazi leader in Danzig
 *[[Hermann Wirth]]
 *[[Herta Bothe]] - Concentration camp guard at both Ravensbrück-Stutthof and Bergen-Belsen.
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 *[[Johannes Stark]]
 *[[Josef Berchtold]] - Very early Party member, and the second ''Reichsf&uuml;hrer-SS'' from 1926-27.
+*[[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.
 *[[Josef Dietrich|Josef "Sepp" Dietrich]] - rose to the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer in the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]''; was the original commander of [[Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler]] (LSSAH), and later commander of the 6th SS Panzer Army.
+*[[Josef Kramer]] - Commandant of the [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp|Bergen-Belsen]] concentration camp.
+*[[Josef Meisinger]] - Head of the [[Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion]], commander of the Warsaw State Police and Gestapo liaison to the German embassy in Tokyo.
+* [[Josef Mengele]] - SS-Hauptsturmführer and physician at the concentration camp at [[Auschwitz-Birkenau]]. Known for his experiments on the inmates at the camp.
+*[[Josef Terboven]]
+* [[Josef Wagner (Gauleiter)|Josef Wagner]]
 *[[Julius Lippert (politician)|Julius Lippert]] - Nazi activist and propaganda official.
 *[[Julius Schreck]] - Co-founder of the SA, first commander of the SS. Later Hitler's personal chauffeur.
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 * [[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.
 *[[Klaus Barbie]] - Head of the [[Gestapo]] in Lyon. Nicknamed "the Butcher of Lyon" for his use of [[torture]] on prisoners.
+*[[Konstantin Hierl]] - Head of the [[Reichsarbeitsdienst]] and an associate of Adolf Hitler before he came to power.
 *[[Konstantin von Neurath]] - [[Foreign Minister]] of Germany (1932-1938) and Reichsprotektor (Governor) of the [[Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia]] (1939-1941).
+*[[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.
+* [[Kurt Franz]] - Head of Treblinka death camp until 1943.
+*[[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.
+*[[Kurt Gruber]] - First chairman of the [[Hitler Youth]] (1926-1931).
+*[[Kurt Jahnke]] - Spy and head of the Jahnke Büro.
+*[[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]].
+*[[Kurt Schmitt]]
+* [[Kurt Student]] - Commander of the ''Fallschirmjäger.''
 *[[Leonardo Conti]] - Head of the Reich Physicians' Chamber (Reichsärztekammer) and leader of the National Socialist German Doctors' League (Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Ärztebund or NSDÄB).
+*[[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".
 *[[Lothar Rendulic]]
 * [[Lothar Witzke]]
 *[[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]].
+*[[Ludwig Fischer]] - Governor of Warsaw
 *[[Margot Dreschel]] - Head of the camp offices at [[Auschwitz Birkenau]].
 *[[Maria Mandel]] - Manageress of the [[Auschwitz Birkenau]] women's camp.
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 *[[Martin Luther (diplomat)|Martin Luther]] - advisor to Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, and participant in the infamous [[Wannsee Conference]].
 * [[Martin Mutschmann]] - [[Gauleiter]] of Saxony.
+*[[Matthias Kleinheisterkamp]]
 *[[Max Amann]] - Head of Nazi publishing house [[Eher-Verlag]]
 *[[Max Koegel]] - SS-[[Obersturmbannführer]]. Concentration camp commander at Majdanek and Flossenbürg.
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 *[[Otto Steinbrinck]]
 *[[Otto Strasser]]
+*[[Otto Georg Thierack]] - Minister of Justice for the Third Reich.
+* [[Otto Thorbeck]] - SS judge
 *[[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]].
+*[[Otto von Stülpnagel]]
 *[[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 General-Major.
 *[[Paul Blobel]] - SS commander and officer in the ''[[Einsatzgruppen]]'' primarily responsible for the Babi Yar massacre at Kiev.
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 *[[Reinhard Heydrich]] - SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, chief of the RSHA or [[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.
 *[[Richard Baer (Nazi)|Richard Baer]] - Commander of the [[Auschwitz Birkenau]] [[Concentration Camp|concentration camp]] from May 1944 to February 1945.
+*[[Richard Walther Darré]] - Minister of Food and Agriculture from 1933 to 1942.
+*[[Richard Drauz]] - Kreisleiter of Heilbronn.
+* [[Richard Euringer]] - Writer who selected 18,000 "unsuitable" books which did not conform to Nazi ideology and were publicly burned.
+*[[Richard Glücks]] - SS officer and inspector of concentration camps.
+*[[Robert Ley]] - Head of the [[German Labour Front]] from 1933 to 1945.
+*[[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.
+*[[Robert Heinrich Wagner]]
 *[[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.
+*[[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.
+* [[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.
+*[[Rudolf Höß]] (not to be confused with [[Rudolf Hess]]) - SS-Obersturmbannführer. Commandant of [[Auschwitz Birkenau|Auschwitz]] concentration camp.
+* [[Rudolf Jung]] - An instrumental force and agitator of German-Czech National Socialism and, later on, a member of the German Nazi Party.
+* [[Rudolf Lange]] - SS-Standartenführer who served as commander in the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and all RSHA personnel in Riga, Latvia.
+*[[Rudolf Querner]] - Police Leader in Germany and Austria.
+*[[Siegfried Fehmer]] - Chief administrator of the ''[[Politische Abteilung]] ''in Norway.
+*[[Siegfried Kasche]] - German Plenipotentiary to their ally the [[Ustaše|Independent State of Croatia]].
+*[[Siegfried Seidl]]
+* [[Sigmund Rascher]] - Nazi doctor stationed at the Dachau Concentration Camp
 *[[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.
 * [[Theodor Adrian von Renteln]] - General Commissioner of Generalbezirk Litauen.
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 * [[Werner Heyde]] - Psychiatrist and one of the main organizers of the T-4 Euthanasia Program.
 * [[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.
+*[[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]].
 *[[Werner von Fritsch]] - [[Generaloberst]], Commander-in-Chief of the Army 1935-1938. Forced out in the [[Blomberg-Fritsch Affair]].
-*[[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]].
+*[[Werner von Gilsa]] - Infantry General.
-*[[Wilhelm Schepmann]]
+*[[Wilhelm Frick]] - Minister of the Interior until August 1943 and later appointed to the ceremonial post of Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
-*[[Willy Messerschmitt]] - Aeronautical engineer and head of the ''[[Bayerische Flugzeugwerke]]'' (BFW, later Messerschmitt AG); designer of several famous aircraft including the Bf.109.
-*[[Wolfram Sievers]] - General Secretary of the [[Ahnenerbe]]<br />
-* [[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.
-* [[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.
-* [[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.
-* [[Richard Drauz]] - Kreisleiter of Heilbronn.
-* [[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.
-* [[Hermann Fegelein]] - ''Gruppenführer'' in the Waffen-SS.
-* [[Siegfried Fehmer]] - Chief administrator of the ''[[Politische Abteilung]] ''in Norway.
-* [[Ludwig Fischer]] - Governor of Warsaw
-* [[Kurt Franz]] - Head of Treblinka death camp until 1943.
-* [[Wilhelm Frick]] - Minister of the Interior until August 1943 and later appointed to the ceremonial post of Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
-* [[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.
-* [[Richard Glücks]] - SS officer and inspector of concentration camps.
-* [[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]].
-* [[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.
-* [[Kurt Gruber]] - First chairman of the [[Hitler Youth]] (1926-1931).
-* [[Hans F. K. Günther|Hans Friedrich Karl Günther]] - Academic teaching racial theories and [[eugenics]].
-* [[Fritz Hartjenstein]] - SS-Obersturmbannführer. Concentration camp commandant at [[Auschwitz Birkenau]], [[Natzweiler]] and [[Flossenbürg concentration camp|Flossenbürg]].
-* [[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.
-* [[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.
-* [[Rudolf Höß]] (not to be confused with [[Rudolf Hess]]) - SS-Obersturmbannführer. Commandant of [[Auschwitz Birkenau|Auschwitz]] concentration camp.
-* [[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."
-* [[Rudolf Jung]] - An instrumental force and agitator of German-Czech National Socialism and, later on, a member of the German Nazi Party.
-*[[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.
-* [[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 to their ally the [[Ustaše|Independent State of Croatia]].
-* [[Emil Kaschub]] - Doctor who conducted experiments on Nazi concentration camp prisoners.
 * [[Wilhelm Keitel]] - Field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall). Head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces) during World War II.
-* [[Matthias Kleinheisterkamp]]
+*[[Wilhelm Loeper]] - [[Gauleiter]] in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt.
-* [[Fritz Knöchlein]] - Squadron leader in the ''[[Schutzstaffel]].''
+*[[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.
-* [[Erich Koch]] - Gauleiter of the NSDAP in East Prussia from 1928 until 1945, and Reichskomissar in Ukraine from 1941 until 1944.
-* [[Josef Kramer]] - Commandant of the [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp|Bergen-Belsen]] concentration camp.
-* [[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]]
-* [[Heinz Lammerding]] - Brigadier-colonel responsible for various reprisals.
-* [[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.
-* [[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.
-* [[Wilhelm Loeper]] - [[Gauleiter]] in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt.
-* [[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.
-* [[Erich von Manstein]] - Field Marshall of the ''Wehrmacht''.
-* [[Emil Maurice]] - Personal friend of Hitler, first head of the SA and one of the founding members of the SS.
-* [[Josef Meisinger]] - Head of the [[Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion]], commander of the Warsaw State Police and Gestapo liaison to the German embassy in Tokyo.
-* [[Josef Mengele]] - SS-Hauptsturmführer and physician at the concentration camp at [[Auschwitz-Birkenau]]. Known for his experiments on the inmates at the camp.
-* [[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.
-* [[Hermann Muhs]] - Minister responsible for church and religious affairs.
-* [[Werner von Gilsa]] - Infantry General.
 * [[Wilhelm Murr]] - [[Gauleiter]] of Württemberg, SS-Obergruppenführer and Reich Defense Commissar of Defense District V.
-* [[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]].
-* [[Friedrich Paulus]] - Field Marshall who commanded the 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad. He later defected to the Soviet Union.
-* [[Erich Priebke]] - Participant in the [[Ardeatine massacre]] in Rome on March 24, 1944.
-* [[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
-* [[Hermann Rauschning]] - Nazi leader in Danzig
 * [[Wilhelm Rediess]]
-* [[Fritz Reinhardt]]
+*[[Wilhelm Schepmann]]
-* [[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.
-* [[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)
-* [[Bernhard Rust]]
-* [[Alfred Saalwächter]] - Commander of Marine-Gruppenkommando West.
-* [[Fritz Sauckel]] - [[Gauleiter]] of Thuringia, General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (1942-45)
-* [[Gustav Adolf Scheel]]
-* [[Kurt Schmitt]]
-* [[Ferdinand Schörner]] - General of the ''Wehrmacht''. Briefly served as Commander-in-chief of the Germany Army in 1945 after Hitler's death.
-* [[Siegfried Seidl]]
-* [[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]]
-* [[Gregor Strasser]] - Gauleiter of Munich and Bayreuth, head of propaganda until 1929.
 * [[Wilhelm Stuckart]]
-* [[Kurt Student]] - Commander of the ''Fallschirmjäger.''
+*[[Wilhelm Weiß]]
-* [[Otto von Stülpnagel]]
+*[[Willy Messerschmitt]] - Aeronautical engineer and head of the ''[[Bayerische Flugzeugwerke]]'' (BFW, later Messerschmitt AG); designer of several famous aircraft including the Bf.109.
-* [[Friedrich Syrup]]
+*[[Wolfram Sievers]] - General Secretary of the [[Ahnenerbe]].
-* [[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.
-* [[Josef Wagner (Gauleiter)|Josef Wagner]]
-* [[Robert Heinrich Wagner]]
-* [[Wilhelm Weiß]]
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