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*[[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.

*[[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.

*[[Adolf Eichmann]] - SS-Obersturmbannführer. Official in charge of [[Reich Main Security Office|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.

*[[Adolf Hamann]] - Chief of the ''Gruppe Hamann ''division and commander of the garrisons of Bryansk and Bobruisk.

*[[Albert Forster]] - Politician and governor of the province [[Danzig-West Prussia]] from 1939-1945.

*[[Albert Speer]] - architect for Nazis' offices and residences, Party rallies and State buildings (1932-42), Minister of Armaments and War Production (1942-45).

*[[Alfred Baeumler]] - Philosopher who interpreted the works of Friedrich Nietzsche in order to legitimize Nazism.

*[[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.

*[[Bernhard Rust]]

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

*[[Bruno Streckenbach]] - Head of Administration and Personnel Department of the [[Reich Security Main Office]] (RSHA)

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

* [[Carl Schmitt]]

*[[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).

*[[Dieter Wisliceny]] - SS-Hauptsturmführer.

*[[Dietrich Eckart]] - Important early member of the National-Socialist German Workers' Party and a participant of the 1923 [[Beer Hall Putsch]].

*[[Eberhard Herf]] - Commander of Order Police in Minsk, head of the Minsk ghetto.

*[[Edmund Hoffmeister]] - Commander of the 383rd Panzer Division.

*[[Edmund Veesenmayer]] - Plenipotentiary to Hungary and SS-Brigadeführer

*[[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.

* [[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.

*[[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.

* [[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.

* [[Franz Stangl]] - SS-Hauptsturmführer who served as the commandant of the Sobibór and Treblinka extermination camps.

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

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

* [[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 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]]

*[[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]]

*[[Hans Aumeier]] - deputy commandant at [[Auschwitz Birkenau|Auschwitz.]]

*[[Hans Biebow]] - Chief of Administration of the [[Łódź Ghetto]].

*[[Hans-Friedrich Blunck]] - Propagandist and head of the Reich Literature Chamber between 1933 and 1935.

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

*[[Hans-Adolf Prützmann]] - Superior SS and Police Leader, and an SS-Obergruppenführer.

*[[Hans Schemm]]

*[[Hans von Tschammer und Osten]]

*[[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.

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

*[[Herta Oberheuser]] - Doctor at the [[Ravensbrück concentration camp]] from 1940 until 1943. Was the only female defendant in the Nuremberg Medical Trial.

*[[Hinrich Lohse]] - [[Gauleiter]] for Schleswig-Holstein and [[Third Reich|Reich]] Commissar for the [[Reichskommissariat Ostland|Ostland]].

*[[Hjalmar Schacht]] - Minister for economics and President of the ''Reichsbank''

*[[Irmfried Eberl]] - Commandant of [[Treblinka]], July to September 1942.

*[[Jakiw Palij]]

*[[Joachim Albrecht Eggeling]] - Nazi Gauleiter of Saxony and Anhalt and High President (Oberpräsident) of the Province of Halle-Merseburg.

*[[Joachim Peiper]] - Waffen--SS commander.

*[[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.

*[[Karl Fritzsch]] - Deputy commandant of [[Auschwitz Birkenau]].

*[[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]].

*[[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.

*[[Karl Holz]] - ''Gauleiter'' of Gau Franconia.

* [[Karl Strölin]] - Lord Mayor of Stuttgart (1933-1945) and Chairman of the 'Deutsches Ausland-Institut' (DAI).

*[[Karl Maria Wiligut]]

* [[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 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".

* [[Martin Heidegger]] - Eminent philosopher, NSDAP member supported Hitler in 1933.

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

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

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

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

* [[Ludwig Maximilian Erwin von Scheubner-Richter|Max Scheubner-Richter]] - senior most Nazi killed during the Beer Hall Putsch, ideologue and mentor to [[Alfred Rosenberg]].

*[[Max Winkler]]

*[[Max Wünsche]] - Regimental commander in the Waffen-SS and one-time adjutant to Hitler himself.

*[[Michael Lippert]] - Commander in the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]''.

*[[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.

* [[Paul Pleiger]] - State adviser and corporate general director.

* [[Paul Schmitthenner]]

*[[Philipp Bouhler]] - Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP and leader of the ''[[Action T4]]'' euthanasia program.

*[[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.

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

*[[Therese Brandl]] - Assistant manageress of the [[Auschwitz Birkenau]] women's camp.

*[[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]]).

*[[Waldemar Hoven]] - SS-Hauptsturmführer and doctor at Buchenwald concentration camp responsible for medical experiments involving injecting camp inmates with Phenol.

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

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

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

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

*[[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.

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

*[[Wilhelm Schepmann]]

* [[Wilhelm Stuckart]]

*[[Wilhelm Weiß]]

*[[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]].