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  1. Bühler Josef

    • Bühler, Josef, 1904-1948
    • Bühler, Josef Friedrich (1904-48).
    • Bühler, Józef.
    • Bühler, Josef.
    • Buehler, Joseph

    16/02/1904

    21/08/1948

    Deputy of the Generalgouverneur Hans Frank in Poland. Participant of the Wannsee Conference. Sentenced to death in Warsaw.

  2. Bürckel Josef

    • Bürckel, Josef, 1895-1944
    • Bürckel, Joseph, 1895-1944
    • Bürckel, Gauleiter (Josef), 1895-1944
    • Burckel, Josef
    • Bürckel, Jos.
    • ...

    30/03/1895

    28/09/1944

    NSDAP-Gauleiter.

  3. Burckhardt Carl Jacob

    • Burckhardt, Carl Jacob
    • Burckhardt, Carl Jacob, 1891-1974
    • Burckhardt, Carl J., 1891-1974
    • Burckhardt, Carl Jakob, 1891-1974
    • Burckhardt, Carl, 1891-1974
    • ...

    10/09/1891

    03/03/1974

    Swiss diplomat and historian. 1937-1939 League of Nations High Commissioner for the Free City of Danzig, in leading position in the ICRC, president after WWII.

  4. Burger Anton

    • Burger, Anton, 1911-1991
    • Bauer, Wilhelm, 1911-1991
    • Bauer, Johann Anton, 1911-1991
    • Burger, Anton Ambros, 1911-1991
    • Steiner, Anton Toni
    • ...

    19/11/1911

    25/12/1991

    SS-Hauptsturmführer (1945). 1938 Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung with Eichmann, 1939 Prager Zentralstelle. Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Abt. IV B (Judenreferat). Feb 1943 in Saloniki to deport Mazedonian Jews to Auschwitz. Kommandant of Terezin. March 1944 Leiter (head) of Judenreferat at Befehlshaber der Sipo and SD Athens to deport Jews from Athens, Corfu and Rhodes. Arrested, escaped from internment.

  5. Burger Wilhelm

    19/04/1904

    SS-Sturmbannführer. Since 1935 Verwaltungsführer. Russlandfeldzug (Eastern campaign) with SS-Totenkopf-Infanterieregiment I until May 1942. Since July 1942 head of the Standortverwaltung Auschwitz, since April 1943 Amtschef (headed department) D IV (Inspektion der Konzentrationslager) in the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt.

  6. Caen Adolphe

    Vice president of the Consistoire Centrale ; treasurer of the Consistorial Association of Parisian Jews to Rabbi Schwartz, August 1940.

  7. Caleb Josué

    1875

    1943

    Lawyer and journalist, early member and leader of the Zionist movement in Ottoman and independent Bulgaria.

  8. Calotescu Corneliu

    1889

    1970

    General, governor of Bukovina 5 Sept 1941 - 20 March 1943.

  9. Campet Jacques

    General, chief of Petain's military cabinet 1941-1943.

  10. Chilowicz Wilek

    1900

    1944

    Jewish Lagerälterster in Plaszow, shot dead because of Amon Göth's orders

  11. Christmann Kurt

    01/06/1907

    04/04/1987

    SS-Obersturmbannführer (1942), participant Hitlerputsch 1923, 1938 Staatspolizeileitstelle Vienna and Innsbruck, Autumn 1939 head of Gestapo Salzburg, Aug 1942 - Feb 1943 leader of the Einsatzkommando 10a in Krasnodar, use of gas van. Autumn 1943 head of Gestapo Klagenfurt, then Koblenz.

  12. Codreanu Corneliu Zelea

    • Codreanu, Corneliu Zelea, 1899-1938
    • Zieliński, Corneliu
    • Zelinschi, Corneliu
    • Zelea, Corneliu Codreanu
    • Codreanu, Corneliu Z.
    • ...

    13/09/1899

    30/11/1938

    Romanian politician of the far right, the founder and leader of the Iron Guard or The Legion of the Archangel Michael (also known as the Legionary Movement), an ultra-nationalist and violently antisemitic organization active throughout most of the interwar period. Advocated Romania's adherence to a military and political alliance formed around Nazi Germany.

  13. Cuza Alexandru C.

    • Alexandru C. Cuza
    • Cuza, Alexandru C.

    08/11/1857

    1946

    Romanian far right politician and theorist.

  14. Cyper Elie

    12/09/1908

    15/07/1944

    Rabbi in various places in France, member of the Jewish underground in France.

  15. Daluege Kurt

    • Daluege, Kurt, 1897-1946
    • Daluege, Kurt
    • Daluge, Kurt 1897-1946

    15/09/1897

    23/10/1946

    Head of the German Ordnungspolizei (Orpo). 1942 SS-Oberstgruppenführer and Generaloberst. After Heydrich´s death, June 1942 Deputy Reichsprotektor Bohemia and Moravia. Sentenced to death and executed among other things because of the massacre of Lidice.

  16. Darlan Jean

    • Louis Xavier Francois

    07/08/1881

    26/12/1942

    French admiral and politician. Supporter of Petain. Minister of the Navy in Vichy government. Petain's deputy from 1941. Head of the French government 1941 - 1942. High Commissioner of France for North and West Africa, November 1942. Executed by the Resistance in December 1942.

  17. Louis Darquier de Pellepoix

    • [Darquier de Pellepoix, Louis]
    • Darquier de Pellepoix, Louis, 1897-1980
    • Pellepoix, Louis Darquier de, 1897-1980
    • Darquier Louis 1897-1980
    • Darquier de Pellepoix, Louis
    • ...

    1897

    1980

    French coordinator of the anti-Jewish programme of the Vichy government, head of the CGQJ (The General Office for Jewish Questions) 1942 - 1944.

  18. Deutsch Abraham

    • Deutsch, Abraham.

    1902

    1992

    French Rabbi during WWII.

  19. Dimitrov Georgi

    • Dimitrov, Georgi, 1882-1949
    • Dimitroff, G.
    • Dimitrov, Georgi
    • Dimitrov, Georgi Mihajlov
    • Dimitrow, G. (Georgi)
    • ...

    18/06/1882

    02/07/1949

    Bulgarian communist. After being acquitted as the star defendant at the Reichstag Fire Trial in 1933, D. became general secretary of the comintern in 1935. Leader of Bulgarian communists after the Soviet liberation and became prime minister on 06.11.1946.

  20. Dirlewanger Oskar Paul

    • Dirlewanger, Oskar-Paul, 1895-1945
    • Dirlewanger, Oskar, 1895-1945
    • Dirlevanger, Oskar Daulʹ, 1895-1945
    • Dirlewanger, Oskar

    26/09/1895

    07/06/1945

    Obersturmführer (1939), SS-Standartenführer (1944). Joined the Condor Legion in 1937. 1940 founded the special SS battalion "Dirlewanger" made up of criminals. This unit was investigated by a Hauptamt SS court for extreme cruelty and murderous havoc during "partisan combat" in Poland and Belarus. The "Dirlewanger" unit was also active in the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.