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== 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]].

* '''[[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.

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

*[[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.

*[[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.

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*[[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 Hühnlein]] - Korpsführer (Corps Leader) of the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK), from 1934 until his death in 1942.

*[[Adolf Ziegler]]

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

*[[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.

*[[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]]

*[[Alois Brunner]] - Commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944.

*[[Andreas Bauriedl]]

*[[Anton Burger]] - Commandant of [[Concentration camp Theresienstadt]] between 1943 and 1944.

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

*[[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.

*[[Baldur von Schirach]] - leader of [[Hitler Youth]] (1931-40), [[Gauleiter]] of Vienna (1940-45).

*[[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.

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

*[[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*[[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]].

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

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

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

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

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

*[[Helmut Knochen]] - Senior commander of the [[Sicherheitspolizei]] (Security Police) in Paris during the Nazi occupation of France.

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

*[[Hermann Wirth]]

*[[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".

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

*[[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.

*[[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.

* [[Lothar Witzke]]

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

* [[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,

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

*[[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]].

*[[Wilhelm Schepmann]]

* [[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 ''Reichsführer-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]]''

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* [[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.

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* [[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.

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* [[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 [[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.

* [[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.

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* [[Karl Fiehler]] - Lord Mayor of Munich from 1933 until 1945.

* [[Ludwig Fischer]] - Governor of Warsaw

* [[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.

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* [[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).

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* [[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.

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

* [[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.

* [[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.

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

* [[Fritz Knöchlein]] - 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.

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* [[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

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* [[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'']]~~.

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

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

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

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* [[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

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* [[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]]

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* [[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.

* [[Jurgen Stroop]] - ''[[Schutzstaffel]]''commander in Gnesen and head of State Auxiliary police.

* [[Wilhelm Stuckart]]

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

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* [[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 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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 == 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]].
+* '''[[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.
-* [[Friedrich Alpers]] - SS-''Obergruppenführer'' and Minister of the Free State of Brunswick.
+*[[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.
+*[[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.
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+*[[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 Hühnlein]] - Korpsführer (Corps Leader) of the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK), from 1934 until his death in 1942.
+*[[Adolf Ziegler]]
+*[[Albert Forster]] - Politician and governor of the province [[Danzig-West Prussia]] from 1939-1945.
+*[[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.
+*[[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]]
+*[[Alois Brunner]] - Commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944.
+*[[Andreas Bauriedl]]
+*[[Anton Burger]] - Commandant of [[Concentration camp Theresienstadt]] between 1943 and 1944.
+*[[Arthur Greiser]] - Chief of Civil Administration and [[Gauleiter]] in the military district of Greater Poland.
+*[[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.
+*[[Baldur von Schirach]] - leader of [[Hitler Youth]] (1931-40), [[Gauleiter]] of Vienna (1940-45).
+*[[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.
+*[[Bronislav Kaminski]] - Head of Briansk-Lokot Republic.
+*[[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
+* [[Eduard Wirths]] - Chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarzt) at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 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.
+*[[Ernst Biberstein]] - SS-Obersturmbannführer, member of the SD and commanding officer of Einsatzkommando 6.
+*[[Franz Ziereis]] - Commandant of Mauthausen concentration camp.
+*[[Friedrich Alpers]] - SS-''Obergruppenführer'' and Minister of the Free State of Brunswick.
+*[[Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger]] - High-ranking member of the [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] and [[Schutzstaffel|SS]].
+*[[Gerda Bernigau]] - Chief wardress of the Gross-Rosen region.
+*[[Gottlob Berger]] - Chief of Staff for [[Waffen-SS]] and head of the SS's main leadership office.
+*[[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]].
+*[[Hanns Kerrl]] - Reichsminister of Church Affairs for the Third Reich.
+*[[Hans Aumeier]] - deputy commandant at [[Auschwitz Birkenau|Auschwitz.]]
+*[[Hans Biebow]] - Chief of Administration of the [[Łódź Ghetto]].
+*[[Heinz Auerswald]] - Commissioner for the Jewish residential district in Warsaw from April 1941 to November 1942.
+*[[Hellmuth Becker]] - Head of SS Division Totenkopf.
+*[[Helmut Knochen]] - Senior commander of the [[Sicherheitspolizei]] (Security Police) in Paris during the Nazi occupation of France.
+*[[Herbert Backe]] - Minister of Food (appointed 1942) and Minister of Agriculture (appointed 1943).
+*[[Hermann Wirth]]
+*[[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".
+*[[Josef Berchtold]] - Very early Party member, and the second ''Reichsf&uuml;hrer-SS'' from 1926-27.
+*[[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.
+*[[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.
+* [[Lothar Witzke]]
+*[[Max Amann]] - Head of Nazi publishing house [[Eher-Verlag]]
+* [[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,
+*[[Richard Baer (Nazi)|Richard Baer]] - Commander of the [[Auschwitz Birkenau]] [[Concentration Camp|concentration camp]] from May 1944 to February 1945.
+*[[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]].
+*[[Wilhelm Schepmann]]
 * [[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]]''
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 * [[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.
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 * [[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.
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 * [[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 [[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.
 * [[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.
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 * [[Karl Fiehler]] - Lord Mayor of Munich from 1933 until 1945.
 * [[Ludwig Fischer]] - Governor of Warsaw
-* [[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.
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 * [[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).
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 * [[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.
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 * [[Karl Holz]] - ''Gauleiter'' of Gau Franconia.
 * [[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.
 * [[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.
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 * [[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 Knöchlein]] - Squadron leader in the ''[[Schutzstaffel]].''
-* [[Fritz Knöchlein]] - 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.
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 * [[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
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 * [[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'']].
+* [[Michael Lippert]] - Commander in the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]''.
 * [[Julius Lippert (politician)|Julius Lippert]] - Nazi activist and propaganda official.
 * [[Wilhelm Loeper]] - [[Gauleiter]] in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt.
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 * [[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
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 * [[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]]
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 * [[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.
+* [[Jurgen Stroop]] - ''[[Schutzstaffel]]''commander in Gnesen and head of State Auxiliary police.
 * [[Wilhelm Stuckart]]
 * [[Kurt Student]] - Commander of the ''Fallschirmjäger.''
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 * [[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 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.