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  1. Friedrich Uebelhoer

    Governor of the Kalisz and Lodz districts of the Nazi-occupied Poland. He was responsible for the establishment of the Lodz ghetto,

  2. Ludwig Hahn

    • לודוויג האן
    • Karl Ludwig Hahn

    SS-Standartenführer (1944), Regierungsdirektor. Head of Gestapo Weimar, 1939 commander of Einsatzkommando 1 of Einsatzgruppe I in Poland, Jan. 1940 appointed Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (KdS) in Krakau, April 1941 head of Einsatzgruppe Griechenland, since August 1941 KdS Warschau. He organized the deportation of the Jews of Warszawa to Treblinka in 1942

  3. Paul Grüninger

    • Paul Grueninger

    Head of the District Police of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Between August and December 1938, after the Switzerland closed its borders to Jewish refugees following the Anschluss, Paul Grueninger provided forged entry visas to more than 3,000 Jewish refugees backdating their visas and falsifying other documents. Paul Grueninger was dimissed from his office and lost all his rights, including his retirement benefits. He lived in harsh conditions until his death in 1972. In 1995, the Swiss federal Government finally annulled Grüninger's conviction and cleared his name completely. Paul Grueninger ...

  4. De Gaulle Charles

    • [De Gaulle, Charles Andre Joseph Marie]

    22/11/1890

    09/11/1970

    French officer and statesman, recognised by Churchill as chief of the Free France 28 June 1940. French president 1958-1969.

  5. Dwight David Eisenhower

    • Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
    • Ike Eisenhower

    President of the United States of America.

  6. Jaques Van Harten

    A Jew who was a representative of the Red Cross in Hungary

  7. Judith Nowogródzka

    Commander of a Jewish underground group in the Bialystok ghetto

  8. Stella Kuebler

    A Jewish informer who worked for Gestapo Berlin

  9. Hans-Adolf Asbach

    Governor (Kreishauptmann) of the district of Janow Lubelski in the years 1940-1941 and Brzezany between 1941-1943

  10. Guenther Bovensiepen

    • גינטר בוונזיפן

    A commissar in the criminal division of the Dortmund Gestapo

  11. Ludwig Oldach

    Head of the Gestapo in Schwerin in the years 1933 - 1945

  12. Edmund Braeuning

    He worked in concentration camps Neuengamme, Ravensbrueck and Auschwitz

  13. Percival Treite

    Worked as a physician at the Concentration Camp Ravensbrück

  14. Richard Trommer

    A physician in the concentration camps Flossenbuerg, Neuengamme and Ravensbrueck

  15. Adolf Winkelmann

    Worked as a physician at the Concentration Camp Ravensbrück

  16. Artur Wilke

    He worked at the KdS Minsk

  17. Eberhard von Toll

    He worked at the KdS Minsk

  18. Wilhelm Kaul

    He worked at the KdS Minsk

  19. Artur Braun

    Worked in the Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen

  20. Heinz Beerbaum

    Worked in the Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen