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  1. Josef Meisinger

    Commander of the Sipo and SD in the Warsaw District

  2. Max Thomas

    Einsatzgruppe C commander from 1941 to 1943

  3. Sztójay Döme

    • Sztójay, Döme, 1883-1946
    • Sztojay, Dome

    05/01/1883

    22/08/1946

    Hungary's military attaché in Berlin 1925-1933. After the German occupation of Hungary, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in the Hungarian collaborationist government responsible for segregation, ghettoization and deportation of Hungarian Jews (Mar-Jul 1944). Found guilty of war crimes and executed.

  4. Irma Grese

    Guard of the Ravensbrueck, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps

  5. Menahem Begin

    • מנחם בגין

    Prime Minister of Israel 1977-1983

  6. Friedrich Uebelhoer

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

  7. 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

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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.

  10. Dwight David Eisenhower

    • Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
    • Ike Eisenhower

    President of the United States of America.

  11. Jaques Van Harten

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

  12. Judith Nowogródzka

    Commander of a Jewish underground group in the Bialystok ghetto

  13. Geheime Staatspolizeistelle Berlin

    • Gestapo Berlin

    The Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo, was one of the most unfamous police organisations in the 1930s and 1940s. The Gestapo was widely represented in the occupied zones but also in Germany, for example with an office in Berlin.

  14. Stella Kuebler

    A Jewish informer who worked for Gestapo Berlin

  15. Hans-Adolf Asbach

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

  17. Guenther Bovensiepen

    • גינטר בוונזיפן

    A commissar in the criminal division of the Dortmund Gestapo

  18. Ludwig Oldach

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

  19. Edmund Braeuning

    He worked in concentration camps Neuengamme, Ravensbrueck and Auschwitz

  20. Percival Treite

    Worked as a physician at the Concentration Camp Ravensbrück