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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 under his leadership marked the outbreak of the Second World War. Throughout the ensuing conflict, Hitler was closely involved in the direction of German military operations and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, the genocide of about six million Jews and millions of other victims.

Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)

Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
Oswald Spengler
German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)

Ernst Jünger
German writer (1895–1998)

Ernst Röhm
German Nazi politician, military officer and leader of the Sturmabteilung (1887-1934)
Carl Schmitt
German jurist, political theorist and professor of law (1888-1985)

Ulrike Meinhof
German left-wing militant (1934–1976)
Thomas Müntzer
early Reformation-era German pastor who was a rebel leader during the German Peasants' War

Georg Forster
German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary (1754-1794)
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
German scholar and poet (1798–1874)

Ernst Toller
German writer, politician and leader of the Munich Soviet Republic (1893-1939)

Gregor Strasser
German politician, rival of Adolf Hitler inside the Nazi Party (1892-1934)

Kurt Eisner
German politician and journalist (1867-1919)

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
German historian (1876–1925)
Gudrun Ensslin
German far-left militant (1940–1977)

Carl Schurz
Union Army general, politician (1829-1906)
Johann Most
German-American anarchist
Leo Jogiches
Marxist revolutionary, editor (1867-1919)
Ernst von Salomon
German writer and right-wing Freikorps member (1902–1972)
Otto Rühle
German councilist activist (1874-1943)
Larisa Reisner
Russian writer, editor (1895–1926)
Gottfried Kinkel
German author and politician, editor (1815–1882)
Ernst Niekisch
German politician (1889–1967)
Karl Grün
German journalist, political theorist and socialist politician (1817–1887)
Franz Sigel
Officer in the Grand Duchy of Baden; US Union Army general; civil servant (1824–1902)
Johanna Kinkel
German composer and author, editor (1810–1858)
Arthur Rosenberg
German historian refugee from Nazis because of Jewish heritage (1889-1943)
Gustav Struve
German revolutionary and journalist (1805-1870)
Joseph Weydemeyer
US Union Army officer (1818–1866)
Ludwig Bamberger
German politician (1823-1899)
Friedrich Hecker
German revolutionary and Union United States Army officer (1811-1881)
Johann Philipp Becker
German revolutionary (1809-1886)
August Thalheimer
German politician (1884-1948)
Jacob Venedey
German politician, opinion journalist and writer (1805-1871)
Lorenzo Brentano
United States journalist and politician (1813-1891)
August Winnig
German politician (1878-1956)

Karl Hillebrand
19th-century German author

Wilhelm Zimmermann
Württembergian Protestant theologian, university professor, historian, politician and poet (1807-1878)
Oswald Ottendorfer
Moravian-American journalist (1826-1900)
Karl Otto Paetel
German political journalist (1906-1975)
Karl Schapper
German activist (1812–1870)

Mathilde Franziska Anneke
German feminist (1817–1884)
Stephen Born
German trade unionist and politician (1824–1898)
Otto von Corvin
German author (1812–1886)
Wilhelm Loewe
German politician (1814-1886)

Joseph Moll
German revolutionary (1813–1849)
Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim
German politician (1819–1880)
Louis Blenker
Union Army general (1812-1863)
Ernst Meyer
German politician (1887-1930)
Fritz Anneke
German-American political activist, Union Army Civil War colonel, journalist
Friedrich Hielscher
German resistance member (1902–1990)
Max Baginski
German-American anarchist
Hermann Raster
American newspaper editor (1827-1891)
Andreas Gottschalk
German physician (1815-1849)
Max Levien
German journalist
Karl Artelt
German revolutionary (1890-1981)
Johann Adam Philipp Hepp
German politician and botanist (1797-1867)
Georg Fein
German publicist and democratic politician of the Vormärz, founder and organizer of workers' educational associations (1803–1869)