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  1. Ehud Avriel

    • אהוד אבריאל

    Activist of "Hamossad Le'Aliyah Bet". After WWII member of the Knesset and Ambassador.

  2. Herman Bernstein

    • הרמן ברנשטיין

    Jewish writer and United States Ambassador to Albania

  3. Mantello George

    • Mantello, George
    • Mantello, George, 1901-1992
    • Mantello, George, -1992
    • Mandl, George, 1901-1992

    1901

    1992

    Honorary First Secretary for El Salvador in Geneva, 1942-45

  4. Abetz Otto

    26/03/1903

    05/05/1958

    German ambassador in Paris since August 1940.

  5. Kapel Shmuel René

    • Kapel, René Samuel
    • Kapel, Shmuel René
    • Ḳapel, Shemuʾel Reneh
    • Kapel, Samuel René
    • קפל, שמואל רנה
    • ...

    1907

    1994

    French Rabbi during WWII, one of the chaplains for the internment camps in South France. Holocaust survivor, France. Israeli Ambassador to Greece and Latin American countries.

  6. Lutz Carl

    • Lutz, Carl
    • Lutz, Carl, 1895-1975
    • Lutz, Carl Robert 1895-1975
    • Lutz, Charles 1895-1975
    • Lutz, Carl 1895-1975

    30/03/1985

    1975

    Diplomat credited with saving over 65 000 Jews. Righteous Among the Nations (1965)

  7. 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

  8. Ciano Galeazzo

    • Ciano, Galeazzo, conte, 1903-1944
    • Chiano, Galeazzo, Conte, 1903-1944
    • Ciano, Galeazzo, 1903-1944
    • Ciano, Galeazzo, comte, 1903-1944
    • Ciano, Galeazzo, conte
    • ...

    1903

    11/01/1944

    Italian Statesman. Married to Mussolini's daughter, fascist. Ambassador to the Holy See (1943), prisoner of the Germans in Bavaria, then in the Gestapo prison in Vienna. Charged with treason on Mussolini's instructions for leading role in 25.7.1943 coup. Shot dead in Verona's Scalzi prison.

  9. Laval Pierre

    • Laval, Pierre, 1883-1945
    • Laval, Pierre
    • Laval, Pierre (Pierre Jean Marie), 1883-1945

    26/06/1883

    15/10/1945

    French politician, political head of Vichy France

  10. Weizsäcker Ernst Baron Von

    • Weizsäcker, Ernst von (1882-1951).
    • Weizsäcker, Ernst, Freiherr von, 1882-1951
    • Weizsäcker, Ernst von, 1882-1951
    • Von Weizsäcker, Ernst, 1882-1951
    • Weizsäcker, Ernst Heinrich, Freiherr von, 1882-1951
    • ...

    12/05/1882

    04/08/1951

    1938-1943, State Secretary at the Foreign Office 1943-1945 German Ambassador to the Holy See.

  11. Molotov Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich

    09/03/1890

    08/11/1986

    Soviet statesman and diplomat, foreign minister 1939-49 and 1953-56. Negotiated the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact 1939.

  12. Neurath Constantin Freiherr von

    • Neurath, Konstantin Hermann Karl von, 1873-1956
    • Neurath, Konstantin Freiherr Von
    • Neurath, Konstantin, Freiherr von, 1873-1956
    • Neurath, Konstantin Hermann Karl, 1873-1956
    • Neurath, Konstantin ˜vonœ 1873-1956
    • ...

    02/02/1873

    15/08/1956

    German Foreign Minister (1932-1938). Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1943).

  13. Daladier Édouard

    • Daladier, Édouard, 1884-1970
    • Daladʹe, Ė. 1884-1970
    • Daladier, Édouard
    • Daladier, Édouard 1884-1970
    • Daladier, Edouard, 1884-

    18/06/1884

    10/10/1970

    Édouard Daladier was a French Radical politician and the Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War.

  14. Ribbentrop Joachim von

    • Ribbentrop, Joachim ˜vonœ 1893-1946
    • Ribbentrop, Joachim von
    • Von Ribbentrop, Joachim, 1893-1946
    • Ribbentrop, Ullrich Friedrich Willy Joachim, 1893-1946
    • Ribbentrop, Joachim 1893-1946
    • ...

    30/04/1893

    01/10/1946

    Minister of Foreign Affairs in The Third Reich 1938-1945.

  15. Himmler Heinrich

    • Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945
    • Himmler, Heinrich Luitpold, 1900-1945
    • Gimmler, Genrich 1900-1945
    • Himmler, Heini, 1900-1945
    • Gimmler, Genrikh, 1900-1945
    • ...

    07/10/1900

    23/05/1945

    Various positions, most influential: Reichsführer SS (RFSS), head of the Deutsche Polizei (German police), directly subordinated to Hitler. Also: "Reichskommissar für die Festigung Deutschen Volkstums" (RKF) for the Occupied Eastern Territories, since 25 Aug 1943 also Minister of the Interior, and since 1944 additionally commander of the reserve army (Befehlshaber des Ersatzheeres).