List of nicknames and pseudonyms of Nazis

This is a list of nicknames and pseudonyms of Nazis. Common nicknames (as translated into English) include variations of "Beast", "Butcher" and "Angel of Death". Most high-ranking Nazis did not have a nickname. Most of the notable Nazis who did have nicknames were concentration camp personnel.

The common nickname of Sepp in German for Josef, for such Nazis as Josef Dietrich and Josef Oberhauser, is excluded from this list. The definite article "the" has been removed from the nicknames for the purposes of sorting properly.

Nicknames

Nickname (as translated in English) Person
American[1][2] Max Möller
Angel of Death[3] Josef Mengele
Angel of Death August Miete
Angel of Death Irma Grese
Badmeister Erich Bauer
Beast[4] Gustav Wagner
Beast of Belsen Irma Grese
Beast of Belsen Josef Kramer
Beast of Buchenwald[5] Ilse Koch
Beautiful Beast Irma Grese
Bitch of Buchenwald[6] Ilse Koch
Blonde Angel of Auschwitz Irma Grese
Blonde Beast Reinhard Heydrich
Bohemian corporal[7] Adolf Hitler
Butcher of Lyon Klaus Barbie
Butcher of Prague[8] Reinhard Heydrich
Butcher of Riga[9] Eduard Roschmann
Butcher of Warsaw[10] Josef Albert Meisinger
Butcher of Warsaw Heinz Reinefarth
Butcher Widow[11] Ilse Koch
Frankenstein[12] Josef Blösche
Desert Fox, The Erwin Rommel
Frankenstein[1][2] Willi Mentz
Gasmeister Erich Bauer
Globus Odilo Globocnik
Handsome Toni Anton Malloth
Hangman[13] Reinhard Heydrich
Himmler's Evil Genius Reinhard Heydrich
Hyena of Auschwitz Irma Grese
Queen of Buchenwald[14][15] Ilse Koch
Red Witch of Buchenwald[16][17] Ilse Koch
Uncle Mengele[18] Josef Mengele
Witch of Buchenwald Ilse Koch
Wolf[4] Gustav Wagner
Young Evil God of Death[19] Reinhard Heydrich

Pseudonyms

Some Nazis also used pseudonyms, in most cases to evade notice and capture after the war.

Pseudonym Person
S. Josi Alvers Aspiazu[20] Josef Mengele
Rudolf Berg[21] Dietrich Klagges
Carl Debouche[22] Hans Eisele
Werner Fiedler Walter Frank
Dr. Georg Fischer Alois Brunner
Wolfgang Gerhard[23] Josef Mengele
Michael Gollwitzer Heinrich Seetzen
Helmut Gregor[24] Josef Mengele
Heinrich Hitzinger[25] Heinrich Himmler
Ricardo Klement[26] Adolf Eichmann
Günther Mendel[27] Gustav Wagner
José Mengele[28] Josef Mengele
Pedro Ricardo Olmo Walter Kutschmann
Fausto Rindón[20] Josef Mengele
Frederico Wagner[29] Eduard Roschmann

References

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  2. ^ a b Arad, Yitzhak (1987). Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps (Google Books preview). Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253213053.
  3. ^ Levy 2006, p. 242.
  4. ^ a b Klee, Ernst, Dressen, Willi, Riess, Volker. The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders. ISBN 1-56852-133-2.
  5. ^ Alban, Dan (10 November 2005). "Books Bound in Human Skin; Lampshade Myth?". Harvard Law Record. Retrieved 22 September 2008.
  6. ^ William L. Shirer (1990). The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 885.
  7. ^ Margaritis, Peter (2019). Countdown to D-Day: The German perspective. Oxford, UK & PA, USA: Casemate. p. xv. ISBN 978-1-61200-769-4.
  8. ^ Ramen 2001, p. 8.
  9. ^ Schneider, Gertrude, Exile and destruction : the fate of Austrian Jews, 1938–1945, Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1995 ISBN 0-275-95139-1, p. 78
  10. ^ "Swiss Neutral Claims Nazis are Still on the Loose in Japan," Spartanburg Herald-Journal, 12 May 1946, p. A5.
  11. ^ "Army seeks new charges against butcher widow". The Evening Independent. 29 September 1948. p. 3. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
  12. ^ Seksualne niewolnice III Rzeszy, Wprost magazine, nr. 17, 2007. online version in Polish
  13. ^ Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth ed.). Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster. 1996. p. 1416. ISBN 0-87779-709-9.
  14. ^ Boyle, Hal (14 August 1947). "Cruel 'Queen of Buchenwald' given a permanent address". The Milwaukee Journal. p. 2. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
  15. ^ "Buchenwald Queen must face German court on release". The Evening Independent. 4 July 1949. p. 15. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
  16. ^ "Ilse Koch, Red Witch of Buchenwald, on Trial". Los Angeles Times. 28 November 1950. p. 5. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2012. (subscription required)
  17. ^ "Life sentence for 'Red Witch' of Buchenwald". Lewiston Evening Journal. 15 January 1951. p. 6. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
  18. ^ Lagnado & Dekel 1991, p. 9.
  19. ^ Snyder 1994, p. 146.
  20. ^ a b Zentner & Bedürftig 1991, p. 586.
  21. ^ cited by: Manfred Seidenfuß: Geschichtsdidaktik(er) im Griff des Nationalsozialismus?, p. 161, footnote 2
  22. ^ Fisk, Robert (7 August 2010). "Butcher of Buchenwald in an Egyptian paradise". The Independent.
  23. ^ Blumenthal 1985, p. 1.
  24. ^ Levy 2006, p. 264–265.
  25. ^ Longerich 2012, pp. 734–736.
  26. ^ Cesarani 2005, p. 207.
  27. ^ Sobibor Interviews: Biographies of SS-men
  28. ^ Levy 2006, pp. 269–270.
  29. ^ Rathkolb, Oliver, Revisiting the National Socialist legacy: Coming to terms with forced labor, expropriation, compensation, and restitution, New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, 2004 ISBN 0-7658-0596-0, p. 232, 237 and 264

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