Nazi Leadership (Hard) and Notorious Members

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Leader of the Luftwaffe and second in command for much of WWII

Founder and editor of anti-semitic Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer (1923-1945), Gauleiter of Franconia (1929–40).

Nazi "philosopher" and Reich Minister for the Eastern Territories, tried at Nuremberg and executed on 16 October 1946

Commandant of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Deputy Führer to Hitler until his flight to Scotland on the eve of war with the Soviet Union in 1941.

SS-Obersturmbannführer. Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp.

Co-founder of the SA, first commander of the SS. Later Hitler's personal chauffeur.

Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany from 1938 until 1945.

German field marshal who served as chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Supreme High Command of the German Armed Forces) for most of World War II, thus effectively making him Minister of War.

Head Judge of the Nazi 'People's Court.' In reality a show court that sentenced hundreds to death. Was killed in an air raid.

Minister for Economic Affairs from 1937 to 1945.

Head of the Gestapo in Lyon. Nicknamed "the Butcher of Lyon" for his use of torture on prisoners.

Head of the Reich Chancellery.

Minister of Science, Education and National Culture from 1934 to 1945

German lawyer who worked for the Nazi party during the 1920s and 1930s, and later became Hitler's personal lawyer. Became Nazi Germany's chief jurist and Governor-General of occupied Poland's 'General Government' territory. During his tenure (1939–1945), he instituted a reign of terror against the civilian population, systematic plunder and brutal economic exploitation and became directly involved in the mass murder of Polish citizens. At the Nuremberg trials, he was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and was executed.

Cofounder of the German Stahlhelm paramilitary organization, a Nazi politician, and Minister for Labour of the German Reich from 1933 to 1945.

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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 including the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Propaganda Minister

Nicknamed the "Angel of Death." Carried out brutal and evil medical experiments at Auschwitz

One of the masterminds behind the Nazi 'Final Solution.' Assassinated in 1942.

The 'Fuhrer.'

Reichsfuhrer (commander) of the notorious SS

Nazi Architect

Commander in Chief of the Navy. President of the 3rd Reich after Hitler's Suicide

High ranking SS Official. Oversaw transportation of Jews to Concentration Camps. Captured by the Mossad in Argentina in 1960.

The 'Desert Fox.' German general forced to commit suicide after his implication in the July 20 plot against Hitler.

Leader of the Hitler Youth program from 1940-1945.

Chief of Administrator of the Lodz Ghetto.

Head of the Party Chancellery and private secretary to Adolf Hitler.

Personal physician of Adolf Hitler in August 1944 and headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939.

Press Chief of the Third Reich.