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  1. Pavelic Ante

    • Pavelić, Ante Smith
    • Pavelić, Ante
    • Smith Pavelic, Ante
    • Pavelić, Ante, 1889-1959
    • Pawelitsch, Ante, 1889-1959
    • ...

    14/07/1889

    28/12/1959

    Fascist leader, formed USTASA and later added antisemitism to the Ustasa's ideology

  2. Pechersky Aleksandr

    • Pečerskij, Aleksandr Aronovič, 1909-1990
    • Peczerski, Aleksander.
    • Pecherskiĭ, Aleksandr Aronovich 1909-1990
    • Petschjorski Aleksander Aronowitsch 1909-1990
    • Pečërskij, Aleksandr Aronovič 1909-1990
    • ...

    1909

    1990

    Chief organiser and leader of the uprising and mass-escape of Jews from Sobibor extermination camp on 14.10.1943

  3. Perlasca Giorgio

    • Perlasca, Giorgio, 1910-1992
    • Perlasca, Giorgio
    • Perlasca, Jorge, 1910-1992

    1910

    Businessman. Saved 5200 Jews pretending to be a Spanish consul to Budapest.

  4. Peshev Dimitar

    • Pešev, Dimit''r 1894-1973
    • Peshev, Dimitar, 1894-1973
    • Пешев, Димитър 1894-1973
    • Pešev, Dimitǎr, 1894-1973
    • Peshev, Dimitur, 1894-1973
    • ...

    25/06/1894

    20/02/1973

    Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria and Minister of Justice during World War II. Prevented deportations of Jews from Bulgaria

  5. Pétain Henri-Philippe

    24/04/1856

    23/07/1951

    General and chief of the collaborationist Vichy-government during the WWII

  6. Pfundtner Hans

    15/07/1881

    25/04/1945

    State Secretary in the Ministry of Interior (1933)

  7. Pister Hermann

    21/02/1885

    22/12/1947

    Commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp (from 1941)

  8. Poche Oswald

    28/01/1908

    22/09/1962

    Head of the Gestapo in Frankfurt am Main (1941-1943). Head of Einsatzkommando 2 (1943).

  9. Pohl Oswald

    • Pohl, Oswald
    • Pohl, Ludwig Oswald, 1892-1951
    • Pohl, Oswald, 1892-1951

    30/06/1892

    08/06/1951

    Chief of the SS Economic and Administrative Dept (1942-) ( SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt ). Responsible for sending valuables, clothes and hair from gassed Jewish inmates to Germany

  10. Poliakov Leon

    • Poliakov, Léon, 1910-1997
    • Poljakov, Lev Vladimirovič, 1910-1997
    • Поляков, Лев Владимирович, 1910-1997
    • Polyaḳov, Leon, 1910-1997
    • Poliakov, Léon, 1910-
    • ...

    1910

    1997

    Jewish historian, emigrated from Russia to France in 1920. Served in the French army during WWII. One of the first historians of the Holocaust

  11. Pius 12 Pope

    • Pius XII (papież ; 1876-1958).
    • Pacelli, Eugenio.
    • Pío XII.
    • Pij XII.
    • Pie XII (pape).
    • ...

    02/03/1876

    09/10/1958

    Head of the Roman Catholic Church (1939-58). Controversy around his and the Vatican's "neutrality" during the Holocaust

  12. Prützmann Hans Adolf

    • Prützmann, Hans-Adolf 1901-1945
    • Prützmann, Hans Adolf 1901-1945
    • Prützmann, Hans 1901-1945
    • Pruetzmann, Hans Adolf, 1901-
    • Prützmann, Hans Adolf, 1901-
    • ...

    31/08/1901

    1945

    Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer (HSSPF) in Hamburg, Köningsberg, Russia and Ukraine. Organised Werwolf.

  13. Quisling Vidkun

    • Quisling, Vidkun, 1887-1945
    • Quisling
    • Qvisling, Vidkun A. 1887-1945
    • Quisling, Vidkun Abraham Lauritz 1887-1945
    • Quisling, Vidkun A. 1887-1945
    • ...

    18/07/1887

    24/10/1945

    Army officer and head of the collaborationist Nazi puppet-government, declared antisemite and partially responsible for the deportations of the Norwegian Jews

  14. Racine Emmanuel

    • Racine, Emmanuel

    02/12/1911

    From 1941 Résistance, organiser of saving actions of children.

  15. Rademacher Franz

    • Rademacher, Franz 1906-1973
    • Rademacher, Franz

    20/02/1906

    17/03/1973

    Diplomat "Jewish expert" in the German Foreign Office. Head of the "Judenreferat" in the German Foreign Office, drew up the Madagascar-Plan, 1940.

  16. Raeder Erich

    • Raeder, Erich
    • Raeder, Erich, 1876-1960
    • Raeder, E. (Erich), 1876-1960
    • Raeder, Erich.
    • Raeder, E.
    • ...

    24/04/1876

    06/11/1960

    Grand Admiral in the German Navy until retirement in 1941

  17. Rahm Karl

    02/04/1907

    30/04/1947

    Born 1907 in Klosterneuburg. Died 1947 in Litoměřice. Austrian SS-Obersturmführer and commander in Terezín. Rahm worked at the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna and Prague. Commandant of Terezín from February 1944 - May 1945.

  18. Rapp Albert

    16/11/1908

    Head of "Umwandererzentrale" Posen, (1942-1943). Head of Sonderkommando 7a

  19. Rasch Otto

    07/12/1891

    01/11/1948

    SS-Brigadeführer (1940). Head of Einsatzgruppe C. Ordered the massacre in Babi Jar 29/30.09.1941

  20. Rauff Walther

    • Rauff, Walter
    • Rauff, Walther
    • Rauff, Walther, 1906-1984
    • Rauff, Walter, 1906-1984
    • Rauff, Hermann Julius Walther Rauff 1906-1984 Vollstaendiger Name
    • ...

    19/06/1906

    SS officer and RSHA functionary. Responsible for arming Einsatzgruppen and for building gas waggons. Head of an SD-Einsatzkommando in Tunis.