Benno von Arent – Responsible for art, theaters and movies in Nazi Germany.
Heinz Auerswald – Commissioner for the Jewish residential district in Warsaw from April 1941 to November 1942.
Artur Axmann – Chief of the Social Office of the Reich Youth Leadership. Leader of the Hitler Youth from 1940 to 1945.
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Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski – An SS-Obergruppenführerund General der Polizei, he was the commander of the "Bandenkampfverbände" 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 – State Secretary (1933–1944) in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture and later Reich Minister (1944–1945), he was also an SS-Obergruppenführer. An architect of the infamous Hunger Plan.
Richard Baer – Commander of the Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to February 1945.
Hans-Friedrich Blunck – Propagandist and head of the Reich Literature Chamber between 1933 and 1935.
Ernst Boepple – State Secretary of the General Government in Poland, serving as deputy to Deputy Governor Josef Bühler. Deeply implicated in the "Final Solution".
Martin Bormann – Reichsleiter, head of the Party Chancellery (Parteikanzlei) and Secretary to the Führer, Adolf Hitler. Also an SS-Obergruppenführer, he committed suicide in May 1945. Convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death in absentia by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Viktor Brack – Organizer of the Euthanasia program, Operation T4 and one of the men responsible for the gassing of Jews in the extermination camps. In 1936, he was also appointed chief of Hauptamt II (main office II) in the Chancellery of the Führer.
Karl Brandt – Personal physician of Adolf Hitler in August 1944 and co-headed the administration of the Aktion T4 euthanasia program from 1939. He was an SS-Gruppenführer.
Walther von Brauchitsch – Generalfeldmarschall, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army 1938–1941.
Franz Breithaupt, An SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS, he was Chief of the SS Court Main Office from 1942 to 1945, with exclusive jurisdiction for conducting investigations and trials of SS personnel.
Helmuth Brückner – A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch, he was Gauleiter of Gau Silesia from 1925 and Oberpräsident of the Prussian provinces of both Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia from 1933. An SA-Gruppenführer, he was removed from office and expelled from the Party in December 1934 in the aftermath of the Röhm Putsch.
Alois Brunner – Commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944.
Walter Buch – Jurist, Reichsleiter, Chairman of the Uschla 1927–1933 and Supreme Party Judge 1934–1945. He was an SS-Obergruppenführer.
Friedrich Buchardt – Member of the Einsatzgruppendeath squads, who started off grading people on their Germanness and then progressed to outright genocide. Attributed to having been responsible for sending tens of thousands to their deaths, avoided justice by working for the Allied powers as an "Intelligence Source" on the Soviets.
Werner Catel – Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Leipzig, considered an expert on the program of euthanasia for children and participated in the Aktion T4 program.
Otto Dietrich – Reichsleiter, Reich Press Chief, Vice-President of the Reich Press Chamber, State Secretary in the Ministry of Propaganda and an SS-Obergruppenführer.
Karl Dönitz – Großadmiral, Führer der Unterseeboote (Commander of Submarines) 1936–1943, Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine 1943–1945 and the last head of state of Nazi Germany following Hitler's suicide.
Adolf Eichmann – SS-Obersturmbannführer. Official in charge of RSHAReferat IV B4, Juden (RSHA Sub-Department IV-B4, Jews); responsible for facilitation and transportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps. Fled to Argentina; captured there by Mossad operatives in 1960, tried in Israel and executed on 1 June 1962.
Hermann Fegelein – An SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS, he was married to Eva Braun’s sister, Gretl. The SS Liaison Officer to Hitler’s headquarters, he was shot for desertion in April 1945.
Karl Fiehler – Reichsleiter for Municipal Politics and Oberburgomeister of Munich from 1933 to 1945. He was also an SS-Obergruppenführer.
Hans Frank – A lawyer, he was Hitler's legal advisor, an Uschla judge, Reichsleiter for Legal Issues, Bavarian Minister of Justice, President of the Academy for German Law (1933–1942) Reich Minister without portfolio and Governor-General of occupied Poland. He was also an SA-Obergruppenführer. Involved in perpetration of the Holocaust, he was convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Wilhelm Frick – Reichsleiter, Reich Minister of Interior (1933–1943); Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (1943–1945). Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Herbert Otto Gille – SS-Obergruppenfuhrer; Waffen-SS General. Awarded the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds and the German Cross in Gold, became the most highly decorated Waffen-SS member during World War II.
Richard Glücks – SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Waffen-SS, he was Concentration Camps Inspector (CCI) after Eicke, from 1939 to 1945, and committed suicide in May 1945.
Robert Ritter von Greim – LuftwaffeGeneralfeldmarschall and last Luftwaffe Commander-in-Chief succeeding the deposed Hermann Göring in the last days of World War II.
Arthur Greiser – Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of Reichsgau Wartheland from 1939 to 1945, he was an Obergruppenfuhrer in both the SS and the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK).
Wilhelm Grimm – Reichsleiter; Chairman of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Party Court 1932–1939 and an SS-Gruppenführer. Died in a car accident in 1944.
Franz Gürtner – Minister of Justice in Bavaria (1922–1932) he became Reich Minister of Justice from 1932 to his death in 1941.
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Eugen Hadamovsky – National programming director for German radio; chief of staff in the Nazi Party's Central Propaganda Office (Reichspropagandaleitung) in Berlin from 1942 to 1944.
Heinrich Hager – SA-Oberführer. Elected at Reichstag 1932 to his death in 1941. Leader of SA Brigade 77.
Karl Hanke – A State Secretary in the Ministry of Propaganda (1937–1941); Gauleiter of Gau Lower Silesia and Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945; the last Reichsführer-SS (after Himmler was expelled from office by Hitler) from late April to early May 1945.
Paul Hausser – SS-Oberstgruppenführer; Generaloberst der Waffen-SS. First commander of the military SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) that grew into the Waffen-SS, in which he was a prominent field commander.
Franz Hayler – State Secretary and Deputy to the Reich Economics Minister during the latter part of World War II.
Martin Heidegger – Eminent philosopher; NSDAP member who supported Hitler after he became Chancellor in 1933.
Erhard Heiden – Founding member of the Schutzstaffel (SS); its third Reichsführer from 1927 to 1929.
August Heißmeyer – An SS-Obergruppenführer, he led the SS Main Office (1935–1939) and was the Higher SS and Police Leader for Berlin and Brandenburg (1939–1945).
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff – An SA-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, he was Police President of Potsdam (1933–1935) and Berlin (1935–1944) where he led anti-Jewish riots. Involved in the 20 July Plot, he was executed in 1944.
Otto Hellmuth – Gauleiter of Gau Mainfranken and an Obergruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK).
Rudolf Hess (not to be confused with Rudolf Höß) – Reichsleiter, SS-Obergruppenführer and Deputy Führer to Hitler until his flight to Scotland on the eve of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.
Walther Hewel – An early Party member and a participant in the Beer Hall Putsch. He was a protégé of Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, a "Special Ambassador" and the Foreign Office liaison to Hitler. He was a personal friend of Hitler and an SS-Brigadeführer.
Werner Heyde – Psychiatrist; one of the main organizers of the T-4 Euthanasia Program.
Reinhard Heydrich – SS-Obergruppenführer; General der Polizei, Chief of the RSHA or Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Main Office: including the Gestapo, SD and Kripopolice agencies); Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia. He was Himmler's "right-hand man", and considered a principal architect of the Night of the Long Knives and the Final Solution. Assassinated in Prague in 1942 by British-trained Czech commandos.
Hans Hinkel – Journalist; Commissioner at the Reich Ministry for the People's Enlightenment and Propaganda.
August Hirt – Chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg; instigated a plan to build a study-collection of specialized human anatomical specimens from over 100 murdered Jews. Allied discovery of corpses, paperwork and statements of laboratory assistants led to war crimes trial preparation, which he avoided through suicide.
Adolf Hitler – Politician; leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. Dictator of Germany from 1934 to 1945, with titles of Chancellor from 1933 to 1945 and head of state (Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945.
Albert Hoffmann – The Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia-South from 1943 to 1945, at the same time he was Deputy to Goebbels in his capacity as Reich Inspector for Civil Air Warfare Measures and an SS-Gruppenführer.
Hermann Höfle – Deputy to Odilo Globocnik in the Aktion Reinhard program. Played a key role in the "Harvest Festival" massacre of Jewish inmates of various labor camps in the Lublin district of Nazi-occupied Poland in early November 1943.
Franz Josef Huber – former Munich political police department inspector with Heinrich Müller; in 1938 appointed chief of the Security Police (SiPo) and Gestapo for Vienna and the "Lower Danube", and "Upper Danube" regions of Austria.
Karl Jäger – SS officer; Einsatzkommando leader; author of the "Jäger Report" giving details of mass murders in Lithuania between July and December 1941.
Friedrich Jeckeln – An SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei und Waffen-SS, he was the Higher SS and Police Leader in Ukraine and, later, in Ostland. He was in charge of one of the largest collection of Einsatzgruppen and personally responsible for ordering the deaths of over 100,000 Jews, Slavs and Roma.
Alfred Jodl – Generaloberst; Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, or OKW) during World War II, acting as deputy to Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Rudolf Jung – An instrumental force and agitator of German-Czech National Socialism and, later on, a member of the German Nazi Party.
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Ernst Kaltenbrunner – SS-Obergruppenführer; General der Polizei und Waffen-SS. Chief of the RSHA (Reich Security Main Office), a main office of the SS, from January 1943 to Germany's surrender in May 1945. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Hans Kammler – SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS, he was the SS Construction Projects and V-2 program director.
Wilhelm Keitel – Generalfeldmarschall and head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces) during World War II. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Hanns Kerrl – Reich Minister of Church Affairs and First Deputy President of the Reichstag until his death in 1941.
Hans Krebs – General of the Wehrmacht; last OKH chief of staff from April to 2 May 1945 when he committed suicide in the Führerbunker.
Bernhard Krüger – Leader of the VI F 4a Unit in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt responsible for, among other things, falsifying passports and documents.
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger – Obergruppenführer in the SA and SS. The Higher SS and Police Leader in the General Government from 1939–1943, he was responsible for multiple acts of genocide.
Wilhelm Kube – Gauleiter of Gau Ostmark (1928–1933) and Kurmark (1933–1936), he was also Oberpräsident of the Prussian provinces of Brandenburg and Posen-West Prussia from 1933 to 1936. He was the Generalkommissar for Weißruthenien (White Ruthenia) in the Reichskommissariat Ostland from 1941 until assassinated by partisans in 1943. He was an SS-Gruppenführer.
Hans Lammers – Head of the Reich Chancellery and Reich Minister without portfolio. He was also an SS-Obergruppenführer.
Herbert Lange – SS-Sturmbannführer; Chełmno extermination camp commandant, implicated in thousands of gassings there; supervised the execution of 1,558 mental patients at Soldau concentration camp.
Karl-Siegmund Litzmann – Head of the National Socialist Equestrian Corps and an SA-Obergruppenführer, he was the Generalkommissar of occupied Estonia from 1941 to 1944.
Werner Lorenz – Waffen-SS general; leader of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, an organization charged with settling ethnic Germans in the Reich from other parts of Europe.
Martin Luther – Advisor & Undersecrtary of State to Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop; SA-Brigadeführer; participant in the Wannsee Conference.
Emil Maurice – Personal friend of Hitler, first head of the SA and one of the founding members of the SS. But referred to in 1960 paperback Eichmann: the Man and His Crimes as Hitler's chauffeur, speculating whether Hitler knew he was a French Jew.
Josef Mengele – SS-Hauptsturmführer; physician at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, who conducted medical experiments on inmates; especially children.
Christian Mergenthaler – Minister President and Minister of Culture of Württemberg (1933–1945). He was also an SA-Obergruppenführer.
Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling – SS-Sturmbannführer in Hitler's Chancellery; adjutant of Philipp Bouhler; staff officer, Reichsführer-SS and SS Main Office.
Erhard Milch – A Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftwaffe, he was State Secretary of the Reich Aviation Ministry from its inception in 1933, Inspector-General of the Luftwaffe from 1939 and its Chief of Procurement, Armaments & Supply from 1941.
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 favor; convinced Adolf Eichmann to transfer to his SS department which handled "Jewish Affairs".
Walter Model – Generalfeldmarschall and one of Hitler's favorite commanders, he held Army Group commands on the Eastern Front and briefly as Commander-in-Chief in the West. He committed suicide in the Ruhr pocket in April 1945.
Hermann Muhs – State Secretary in the Ministry of Church Affairs.
Heinrich Müller – SS-Gruppenführer; Generalleutnant der Polizei; headed Gestapo (Secret State Police) under Reinhard Heydrich the SiPo and later RSHA chief.
Ludwig Müller – Appointed “Reich Bishop” he was the leader of the German Christians and sought to unify all 28 Protestant regional churches into a unified “Reich Church” under authoritarian and anti-Semitic Nazi principles.
Martin Mutschmann – He was Gauleiter, Reichsstatthalter and Minister President of Gau Saxony. Also an SA-Obergruppenführer, he was executed in the Soviet Union in 1947.
Arthur Nebe – SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei; Berlin Police Commissioner in the 1920s; early member of both Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS); Interpol President from June 1942 to 1943; appointed head of Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police) or Kripo under Heydrich. Executed in 1945 for alleged involvement in the 20 July Plot.
Otto Ohlendorf – An SS-Gruppenführer, he headed SD, domestic branch, the RSHA department responsible for intelligence and security within Nazi Germany. He also led Einsatzgruppe D and was executed for war crimes.
Wilhelm Ohnesorge – State Secretary from 1933 and Reich Minister (1937–1945) in the Reich Postal Ministry. He was an Obergruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Korps (NSKK).
Franz von Papen – A prominent politician and reactionary in the Weimar Republic, he engineered Hitler's appointment as Chancellor with himself as Vice Chancellor. Outmaneuvered by Hitler, he was ousted in 1934 but continued to serve the Third Reich as Ambassador to Austria (1934–1938) and Turkey (1939–1944). He was acquitted of war crimes by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Phillip of Hesse – A grandson of German Emperor Frederick III, he joined the Nazi Party, was an SA-Obergruppenführer and Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau from 1933 to 1944. Married to the daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, he was suspected of complicity in the overthrow of Benito Mussolini, removed from office, arrested and put in a concentration camp.
Artur Phleps – SS-Obergruppenführer; saw action with 5. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Wiking; later commanded 7. SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division Prinz Eugen and the V SS Mountain Corps; killed in September 1944.
Paul Pleiger – General Director and Supervisory Board Chairman of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring. Reich Commissioner for Coal Supply. War Economy Leader.
Hans-Adolf Prützmann – An SS-Obergruppenführer, he was the Higher SS and Police Leader in Northern Russia and, later, Supreme SS and Police Leader in Ukraine.
Sigmund Rascher – SS doctor who carried out experiments on inmates at Dachau concentration camp.
Johann Rattenhuber – A policeman and SS-Gruppenführer, he headed the Reichssicherheitsdienst (Reich Security Service) that provided personal protection for Hitler and other Nazi leaders.
Walter Rauff – SS-Standartenführer and aide to Reinhard Heydrich. He escaped captivity at the end of the war, subsequently working for the Syrian Intelligence.
Walter Reder – SS-Sturmbannführer convicted of war crimes in Italy.
Wilhelm Rediess – Commanding General of SS forces in occupied Norway from 1940 to 1945.
Walter von Reichenau – Generalfeldmarschall and committed Nazi; he joined the Party in 1932 in violation of regulations and was one of the few ardent National Socialists among the Army's senior officers.
Fritz Reinhardt – Head of the Nazi Party training School for Orators. An economics and tax specialist, he became State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Finance 1933 to 1945 and was an SA-Obergruppenführer.
Joachim von Ribbentrop – Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany from 1938 until 1945 and an SS-Obergruppenführer. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Leni Riefenstahl – German photographer, actress and film director who, in close collaboration with the Nazi Party, produced major films of Nazi propaganda, including Triumph of the Will and Olympia.
Ernst Röhm – A co-founder of the Sturmabteilung (Storm Battalion) or SA, the Nazi Party militia. Later the SA-Stabschef, a Reichleiter and Reich Minister without portfolio. In 1934, as part of the Night of the Long Knives, he was executed on Hitler's orders as a potential rival.
Erwin Rösener – SS-Obergruppenführer, Higher SS and Police Leader, Commander SS Upper Division Alpenland (1941–1945).
Curt Rothenberger – A lawyer, judge and legal theorist, he advocated "partification" of the judiciary. State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice (1942–43), he was sentenced to seven years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Judges' Trial and died by suicide in 1959.
Karl Röver – He was Gauleiter of Gau Weser-Ems and Reichsstatthalter of both Oldenburg and Bremen until his death in 1942. He was also an Obergruppenführer in both the SA and the NSKK.
Ernst Rudin – Psychiatrist and eugenicist. His work directly influenced the racial policy of Nazi Germany.
Bernhard Rust – Reich Minister of Science, Education and National Culture from 1934 to 1945 and Gauleiter of Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick (1928–1940). He was an SA-Obergruppenführer.
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Fritz Sauckel – Gauleiter of Gau Thuringia, Reichsstatthalter of Thuringia, General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (1942–45) and an Obergruppenführer in both the SA and the SS. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Hjalmar Schacht – An economist, banker and politician, who served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic. A fierce critic of post-World War I reparation obligations, he became a supporter of Hitler and served as President of the Reichsbank and Reich Minister of Economics. He played a key role in restoring the German economy but since he opposed the policy of German re-armament, Schacht was first sidelined and then forced out beginning in December 1937. Schacht became a fringe member of the German Resistance and was imprisoned after the 20 July plot in 1944. He was tried at Nuremberg and acquitted.
Paul Schäfer – Hitler Youth member and Wehrmacht corporal, subsequently convicted for multiple charges of child sex abuse in Chile.
Walther Schellenberg – SS-Brigadeführer who rose through the SS as Heydrich's deputy. In March 1942, he became Chief of Department VI, SD-foreign branch, 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.
Max Scheubner-Richter – most senior Nazi killed during the Beer Hall Putsch, ideologue and mentor to Alfred Rosenberg.
Baldur von Schirach – Reichsleiter for Youth Education, leader of the Hitler Youth (1931–40) and Gauleiter & Reichsstatthalter of Vienna (1940–45). He was an SA-Obergruppenführer.
Franz Schlegelberger – Jurist and State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice (1931–1941) he became Acting Reich Minister of Justice (1941–1942).
Fritz Schlessmann – Police President, Deputy Gauleiter and Acting Gauleiter of Gau Essen. He was also an SS-Obergruppenführer.
Albert Schmierer - Head of the Reich pharmacists Reichsapothekerführer (1933-1945).
Carl Schmitt – Philosopher, jurist, and political theorist.
Kurt Schmitt – Economic leader and Reich Economomics Minister (1933–1934).
Wilhelm Freiherr von Schorlemer – SA-Obergruppenführer. Member of the constituency of the National Socialist Reichstag. Leader of SA Group "Danube". (1938–1945).
Ferdinand Schörner – A Generalfeldmarschall, he was a committed Nazi loyalist known for brutality and harsh discipline. A holder of the Golden Party Badge, he was appointed the last Commander-in-Chief of the German Army in Hitler’s will.
Julius Schreck – Co-founder of the SA and Stoßtrupp-Hitler. The first commander of the SS from April 1925 to April 1926. Later Hitler's personal chauffeur.
Arthur Seyss-Inquart – Austrian Nazi; upon being appointed Chancellor in 1938 he invited in German troops resulting in Austria's annexation. Later Deputy to Hans Frank in the General Government of occupied Poland (1939–40), and Reichskommissar of the Netherlands (1940–44). He was also an SS-Obergruppenführer. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Ludwig Siebert – Minister President and Minister of Finance in Bavaria until his death in 1942, he was also an SA-Obergruppenführer.
Gustav Simon – Gauleiter of Gau Moselland from 1931 and Chief of Civil Administration in Luxembourg from 1940 to 1944. He was an NSKK-Obergruppenführer.
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.
Otto Skorzeny – An SS-Obersturmbannführer, he headed many commando operations including the rescue from captivity of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
Jakob Sprenger – The Gauleiter of Gau Hesse-Nassau as well as Reichsstatthalter and Minister President of Hesse and Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Nassau from 1944, he was also an SA-Obergruppenführer.
Franz Stangl – Commandant of the Sobibor (1942) and Treblinka (1942–1943) extermination camps.
Johannes Stark – German physicist and Physics Nobel Prize laureate who was closely involved with the Deutsche Physik movement under the Nazi regime.
Felix Steiner – SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS. He was chosen by Himmler to oversee the creation of, and command the volunteer Waffen-SS Division, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking.
Walter Stennes – the Berlin commandant of the Sturmabteilung (SA), who in the summer of 1930 and again in the spring of 1931 led a revolt against the NSDAP in Berlin as these SA members saw their organization as a revolutionary group, the vanguard of a socialist order that would overthrow the hated Republic. Both revolts were put down and Stennes was expelled from the Nazi Party. He left Germany in 1933 and worked as a military adviser to Chiang Kai-shek.
Otto Strasser – early prominent German Nazi official and politician. Otto Strasser, together with his brother Gregor Strasser, was a leading member of the party's left-wing faction, and broke from the party due to disputes with the dominant "Hitlerite" faction.
Julius Streicher – founder and publisher of anti-semitic Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer (1923–1945), Gauleiter of Franconia (1929–40). Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Karl Strölin – Lord Mayor of Stuttgart (1933–1945) and Chairman of the Deutsches Ausland-Institut (DAI).
Jürgen Stroop – SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei. Stroop's most prominent role was the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, an action which cost the lives of over 50,000 people.
Wilhelm Stuckart – Jurist, State Secretary in the Interior Ministry and attendee at the Wannsee Conference. He was also an SS-Obergruppenführer.
Fritz Todt – civil engineer, Director of the Head Office for Engineering, Inspector General for German Roadways, General Commissioner for the Regulation of the Construction Industry, Inspector General for Water and Energy and founder and head of Organisation Todt. Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions from 1940, he died in a plane crash in February 1942. He was also a LuftwaffeGeneralmajor, an SA-Obergruppenführer and (posthumously) the first recipient of the German Order.
Fritz Wächtler – Gauleiter of the eastern Bavarian administrative region of Gau Bayreuth. He was an Obergruppenführer in both the SA and the SS.
Otto Wächter – Austrian lawyer and high-ranking member of the SS. He was appointed to government positions in Poland and Italy. In 1940 68,000 Jews were expelled from Krakow, Poland and in 1941 the Kraków Ghetto was created for the remaining 15,000 Jews by his decrees.
Otto Wagener – Soldier and economist. Was successively Stabschef of the SA, head of the Party Economic Policy Section, and briefly, Reich Commissar for the Economy. Subsequently he resumed his army career, reaching the rank of Generalmajor.
Adolf Wagner – A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch, he was Gauleiter of Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria as well as Deputy Minister President and Interior Minister of Bavaria. He was an SA-Obergruppenführer.
Gerhard Wagner – Reich Health Leader (Reichsärzteführer) from 1934 to 1939.
Josef Wagner – Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia-South from 1931 and also of Gau Silesia from 1934. Oberpräsident of the Prussian provinces of both Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia from 1934 and, after their union, the Province of Silesia (1938–1941). He was also an Obergruppenführer of both the SA and NSKK. Relieved of his posts in November 1941 and expelled from the Nazi Party in October 1942, he was executed by the Gestapo in 1945.
Robert Heinrich Wagner – A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch, he was Gauleiter of Gau Baden from 1925 and Reichsstatthalter of Baden. He was also Chief of Civil Administration for occupied Alsace from 1940 to 1944 and an NSKK-Obergruppenführer.
Karl Wahl – An early Party member, he was Gauleiter of Gau Swabia and an SS-Obergruppenführer.
Paul Wegener – A regional administrator in occupied Norway from 1940 to 1942, he succeeded Karl Röver as Gauleiter of Gau Weser-Ems and Reichsstatthalter of both Oldenburg and Bremen from 1942 to 1945. He was an SS-Obergruppenführer. President Karl Dönitz named him a State Secretary as staff chief of the civilian cabinet in May 1945.
Karl Weinrich – He was Gauleiter of Gau Electoral Hesse from 1928 to 1943 and an Obergruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Corp (NSKK).
Ernst von Weizsäcker – A career diplomat, he was State Secretary in the Foreign Office from 1938 to 1943 and Ambassador to the Holy See from 1943 to 1945. An SS-Brigadeführer, he was convicted of war crimes in the Ministries Trial.
Wilhelm Weiß – Editor-in-Chief of the Nazi Party's official newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, from 1938 to 1945, President of the Reich Press Association and an SA-Obergruppenführer.
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 or by a rival pimp, according to their opponents.
Max Winkler – Reich Commissioner for the German Film Industry.
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 – Dutch-German historian and scholar of ancient religions and symbols. He co-founded the SS-organization Ahnenerbe, but was later pushed out by Heinrich Himmler.
Eduard Wirths – Chief camp physician at Auschwitz concentration camp from 1942 to 1945.
Karl Wolff – SS-Obergruppenführer und 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.
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