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  1. Reichenau Walter von

    • Reichenau, Walter ˜vonœ 1884-1942
    • Reichenau, Walther Von
    • Reichenau.
    • Reichenau, Walther von, 1884-1942
    • Von Reichenau, Walther, 1884-1942
    • ...

    08/10/1884

    07/01/1942

    One of the leading commanders of the German army, received the rank of Fieldmarshal (Generalfeldmarschall). Involved his units in war crimes, including the Babi Jar massacre

  2. Rendulic Lothar

    • Rendulić, Lothar 1887-1971
    • Rendulič, Lotar 1887-1971
    • Rendulić, Lothar

    23/11/1887

    17/07/1971

    Wehrmacht general, during WWII in Yugoslavia, Norway and Finland.

  3. Reynaud Paul

    • Reynaud, Paul
    • Paul-Reynaud
    • レイノー, ポール
    • Reynaud, Paul, 1878-1966
    • Reynaud, Paul, 1878-

    15/10/1878

    21/09/1966

    Politician and statesman. Penultimate Prime Minister of the Third Republic. Called on active resistance against Nazi-Germany and criticised the policy of appeasement. Deported to Germany and imprisoned there until the liberation.

  4. Richter Gustav

    19/11/1912

    Assistant of Eichmann, adviser on Jewish Affairs in Romania.

  5. Ringelblum Emanuel

    • Ringelblum, Emmanuel, 1900-1944
    • Ringelblum, Emanuel, 1900-1944
    • Ringelblum, Emmanuel.
    • Ringelblum, E.
    • Ringelblum, ʻImanuʾel, 1900-1944
    • ...

    21/11/1900

    07/03/1944

    Worked in the political underground in the Warsaw ghetto. Administrated the Oneg Shabbat Archive inside the ghetto

  6. Robinson Jacob

    • Robinson, Jacob, 1889-1977
    • Rôbinsôn, Yaʿakôv 1889-1977
    • Robinzonas, Jokūbas 1889-1977
    • רובינזון, יעקב, 1889־
    • רבינסון, יעקב
    • ...

    1889

    1977

    Head of the Institute of Jewish Affairs in USA (1940).

  7. Rød Knut

    30/06/1900

    1986

    Police Officer during the war. Responsibile for deportation of Jews from Oslo-region in Norway.

  8. Rommelmann WIlhelm

    • Rommelmann, Wilhelm Heinrich 1907-1948

    1907

    1948

    Gestapo Tarnow (Poland)

  9. Rosenberg Alfred

    • Rosenberg, Alfred, 1893-1946
    • Rozenberg, Alʹfred, 1893-1946
    • Rosenberg, Alfred Ernst 1893-1946 Vollstaendiger Name
    • Rosenberg, Alfred
    • ローゼンベルク, アルフレット
    • ...

    12/01/1893

    16/10/1946

    Nazi-ideologist and head of the Nazi Party's Foreign Affairs Department (1933-45)

  10. Rossner Alfred

    1906

    1943

    Saved numerous Jewish lives as manager of a confiscated Jewish textile factory in the Bedzin ghetto. Arrested and executed by Gestapo for his actions.

  11. Röthke Heinz

    • Röthke, Heinz 1912-1966
    • Rothke, Heinz

    19/01/1912

    14/07/1966

  12. Rothmund Heinrich

    • Rothmund, Heinrich, 1888-1961

    06/07/1888

    08/04/1961

    Head of the Police Division of the Federal Department of Justice and Police

  13. Safran Alexandru

    • Safran, Alexandre, 1910-2006
    • Şafran, Alexandru, 1910-2006
    • Safran, Alexandre
    • Șafran, Alexandru
    • Śafran, Aleksander Y.
    • ...

    1910

    2006

    Chief Rabbi of Romania from 1940 to 1947 and philopsopher of Judaism. One of the signatories of a memorandum objecting to the closing of synagoges (1940)

  14. Sagalowitz Benjamin

    • Sagalowitz, Benjamin 1901-1970

    03/06/1901

    04/06/1970

  15. Saliege Jules-Geraud

    24/02/1870

    05/11/1956

    Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Archbishop of Toulouse (from 1928), elevated to the cardinalate in 1946. Protested against the Nazi treatmen of the Jews. Righteous among the Nations

  16. Sammern-Frankenegg Ferdinand von

    • Sammern und Frankenegg, Ferdinand ˜vonœ 1897-1944
    • Sammern-Frankenegg, Ferdinand von 1897-1944
    • Frankenegg, Ferdinand von Sammern und 1897-1944
    • Sammern-Frankenegg, Ferdinand von

    17/03/1897

    20/09/1944

    Police leader of the Warsaw area (1942) . Responsible of the deportation of 300 000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka

  17. Sandberger Martin

    • Sandberger, Martin

    17/08/1911

    30/03/2010

    Commander of Sonderkommando 1a (1941) and commander of the Sicherheitspolizei and SD in Estonia. Important in the mass murder of the Jews in the Baltic states

  18. Sauckel Fritz

    27/10/1894

    16/10/1946

    NSDAP-Gauleiter in Thüringen (since 1927),General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (Generalbevollmächtigter für den Arbeitseinsatz) 1942/1945. Organized the systematic enslavement of millions of foreign citizens.

  19. Sauer Albert

    18/08/1898

    03/05/1945

    Commandant of KZ Mauthausen and Sachsenhausen (1938-39)

  20. Schacht Hjalmar

    • Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley, 1877-1970
    • Schacht, Horace Greeley Hjalmar, 1877-1970
    • Schacht, Hjalmar, 1877-1970
    • Schacht, Hjalmar
    • Schacht, H.
    • ...

    22/01/1877

    03/06/1970

    President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics. Forced out of the government in 1937 because of disagreements with Hitler.