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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.
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900–1945)
Hermann Göring
Hermann Wilhelm Göring was a German politician, aviator, military commander, and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945. He also served as Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe, a position he held until the final days of the regime.
Joachim von Ribbentrop
German Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany (1893–1946)
Rudolf Hess
German Nazi leader and Reich Minister without Portfolio (1894–1987)
Albert Speer
German Nazi architect, Government Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany and convicted Nazi War Criminal (1905–1981)
Reinhard Heydrich
German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide (1904-1942)
Martin Bormann
German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1900–1945)
Wilhelm Keitel
German field marshal (1882–1946)
Alfred Rosenberg
Baltic German architect, Nazi politician and ideologue (1893-1946)
Alfred Jodl
German general and convicted war criminal (1890–1946)
Hans Frank
German lawyer, Nazi politician, General Governor of Nazi occupied Poland and convicted war criminal (1900-1946)
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Austrian SS official, a major perpetrator of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal (1903-1946)
Julius Streicher
German publisher, Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1885-1946)
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
Fritz Sauckel
German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1894-1946)
Fritz Todt
German engineer and senior Nazi figure (1891-1942)
Heinrich Müller
German SS police official SS-General and head of the Gestapo from 1939-1945 (1900–1945)
Roland Freisler
German jurist and politician (1893–1945)
Karl Brandt
German Nazi SS officer and physician, executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity (1904–1948)
Theodor Eicke
German SS general, commander of concentration camp Dachau and inspector of the concentration camps (1892–1943)
Herbert Backe
German politician (1896-1947)
Oswald Pohl
German SS functionary, head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, convicted war criminal (1892-1951)
Philipp Bouhler
German general, head of Nazi Action T4 euthanasia program for children and the handicapped (1899–1945)
Gottlob Berger
SS general (1896–1975)
Viktor Brack
German economist and Nazi party functionary, convicted war criminal (1904-1948)
Karl Hanke
German general and last Reichsführer-SS (1903-1945)
Ernst-Robert Grawitz
German general; Reichsarzt; facilitated medical torture and experiments on Nazi concentration camp inmates (1899–1945)
Franz Gürtner
German lawyer and politician (1881-1941)
Ettore Bastico
Italian general (1876-1972)
Hans Kammler
German architect, SS general, head of construction and armament projects in the German Reich (1901-1945)
Richard Glücks
German general (1889-1945); SS-Gruppenführer, head of the inspection of the concentration camps
Otto Dietrich
German general (1897-1952)
Walter Rauff
Nazi War ciminal (1906–1984)
Carl Værnet
Danish holocaust perpetrator (1893–1965)
Werner Best
German general (1903-1989)
Martin Luther
German diplomat (1895-1945)
Eduard Wagner
German army general and quartermaster-general (1894-1944)
Hermann Reinecke
German general (1888-1973)
Georg Thomas
German general (1890–1946)
Paul Nitsche
German psychiatrist (1876-1948)
Bruno Tesch
German chemist, arrested by the British as a war criminal, tried, and executed (1890-1946)
Walter Gross
German physician and Nazi politician (1904-1945)
Werner Heyde
SS officer and psychiatrist (1902-1964)
Ulrich Greifelt
German general of police (1896-1949)
August Frank
German SS functionary and convict at the Nuremberg trials (1898-1984)
Arno Schickedanz
German politician, journalist and diplomat (1892-1945)
Franz Novak
German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1913–1983)
list of major perpetrators of the Holocaust
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Walter Schmitt
SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS (1879-1945)
Alfred Ingemar Berndt
journalist and writer (1905-1945)
Curt Wittje
German politician (1894-1947)
Heinrich Bütefisch
SS officer (1894-1969)
Emil Kaschub
Nazi physician
Carl Schneider
senior researcher for the Action T4 Euthanasia program
Karl Weinbacher
German manager and war criminal (1898-1946)
Judenberater
The ' or (German plural: ; ), variously translated as "Jew advisers" or "Jew experts"''''', were Nazi SS officials who supervised anti-Jewish legislation and the deportations of Jews in the countries under their responsibility. Key architects of the Holocaust, most of them were under the direct command of Adolf Eichmann.
Toivo Horelli
Finnish politician (1888–1975)
Arno Anthoni
Finnish lawyer and Nazi collaborator