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  1. Ulrich Greifelt

    SS-Obergruppenführer, lieutenant general of police, and convicted war criminal. After the beginning of the Second World War, Greifelt was appointed Chief of Staff of RKFDV (Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums; Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood) in October 1939. He was found guilty of war crimes at the RuSHA trial at Nuremberg, sentenced to life imprisonment, and died in Landsberg Prison.

  2. Kaltenbrunner Ernst

    • Kaltenbrunner, Ernst
    • Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 1903-1946
    • Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 1902-1946

    04/10/1903

    16/10/1946

    Head of the SS and police in Austria. Since 01.01.1943, head of RSHA and of Sipo and SD. Sentenced to death and executed in Nuremberg in 1946.

  3. Keitel Wilhelm

    22/09/1882

    16/10/1946

    Head of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the supreme command of the German army (since 04 Feb 1938).

  4. Schutzstaffel

    • Black Shirts
    • SS
    • SS - Schutzstaffel

    Founded in 1925

    The Schutzstaffel was a small detachment was formed in 1925 to provide security for Hitler. Beginning in 1929, under the tutelage of Heinrich Himmler, the SS was enlarged and became an independent entity (1944-07) within the Nazi Party. In 1934, it effectively eliminated its rival, the SA, during the Night of the Long Knives. The SS was composed of the Gestapo, Kriminalpolizei, Waffen-SS,and Totenkopfverbaende. All police agencies were brought under the control of the SS in 1936. The Nuremberg Tribunal declared the SS to be a criminal organization for the ‘persecution and extermination of J...

  5. Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine

    • Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation
    • CDJC

    1943/present

    When the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine was founded in 1943 in Grenoble by a committee set up by Isaac Schneersohn, it was a clandestine organization. Its specific objective was to document the Shoah by pooling the information of Jewish organizations and scholars and by collecting documentary evidence. After the liberation of France in 1944, the founder, Isaac Schneersohn, and Léon Poliakov, in charge of research, moved the CDJC to Paris to save it from destruction and to sequester the archives of the Vichy government and of the German occupying forces. Later the CDJC became on...

  6. Bormann Martin

    • Bormann, Martin 1900-1959?
    • Bormann, Martin, 1900-1945?
    • Borman, Martin, 1900-1945
    • Bormann, Martin
    • ボアマン, マルティン

    17/06/1900

    02/05/1945

    Leiter (Head) of Polizeikanzlei of the NSDAP in a rank of a Reichsminister. One of the people closest to Hitler. Suicide.

  7. Schirach Baldur von

    • Schirach, Baldur ˜vonœ 1907-1974
    • Von Schirach, Baldur, 1907-1974
    • Schirach, Baldur von
    • シーラッハ,
    • Schirach, Baldur von (Baldur Benedikt), 1907-1974

    09/03/1907

    08/08/1974

    Reich Youth leader. Governor of Vienna since 1941. Participated in the deportation of Vienna's Jews

  8. Schulz Erwin

    • Schulz, Erwin
    • Schulz, Erwin 1900-1981

    27/11/1900

    11/11/1981

    Head of Gestapo Bremen. Commander of Sipo Hamburg (1940-). Head of Ek5 of Einsatzgruppe C in Ukraina (1941-).

  9. Seyss-Inquart Arthur

    • Seyss-Inquart, Arthur
    • Seyß-Inquart, Arthur, 1892-1946
    • Zajtich, Arthur, 1892-1946
    • Seyss-Inquart, Arthur, 1892-1946
    • Seyss-Inquart, A. (Arthur), 1892-1946
    • ...

    22/07/1892

    16/10/1946

    Reich governor of Austria. Reich Commissioner of German-occupied Netherlands. Responsible for rounding-up of Dutch Jews.

  10. Stuckart Wilhelm

    • Stuckart, Wilhelm, 1902-1953
    • Štukart, Vilchelm 1902-1953
    • Stuckart-Hoffmann, Wilhelm 1902-1953
    • Stuckart-Globke, Wilhelm 1902-1953
    • Hoffmann, Wilhelm Stuckart- 1902-1953
    • ...

    16/09/1902

    12/1953

    Nazi politician and jurist. State Secretary in hte Rich Ministry of Internal Affairs (1935-.) Drafted the Nuremberg Laws. Active participator at the Wannsee Conference.

  11. Doenitz Karl

    • Dönitz, Karl, 1891-1980
    • Doenitz, Karl, 1891-1980
    • Dönitz Oberleutnant zur See 1891-1980
    • Donitz, Karl
    • Dönitz, Karl
    • ...

    16/09/1891

    24/12/1980

    Großadmiral, commander of the German navy (Kriegsmarine).

  12. Frank Hans

    • Frank, Hans, 1900-1946
    • Frank, Hans M., 1900-1946
    • Frank, Hans
    • Frank, Hans Michael
    • Frank.
    • ...

    23/05/1900

    16/10/1946

    Reichsrechtsführer. Hitler's lawyer, leading jurist in the Third Reich. Since 25 Oct 1939 Generalgouverneur of occupied Poland.

  13. Frick Wilhelm

    • Frick, Wilhelm, 1877-1946
    • Fulike 1877-1946
    • Frick, Wilhelm.

    12/03/1877

    16/10/1946

    Minister of the Interior, Bulgaria, 1940-1943.

  14. 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

  15. Göring Hermann

    • Göring, Hermann, 1893-1946
    • Goering, Hermann, 1893-1946
    • Goering 1893-1946
    • Göring, Hermann Wilhelm
    • Goering, Hermann Wilhelm
    • ...

    12/01/1893

    15/10/1946

    Reichsmarschall. One of the main leaders of the Nazi state. Headed the Air Ministry and air force (Luftwaffe) and minister in charge of the Four Year Plan.

  16. Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland

    • Reich Association of Jews in Germany

    1939-07-04/1943

    This successor entity to the Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden started 1939-07-04, charged by the Nazis as its major mission emigration of Jews from the Reich. In included all Jews as defined by the Nuremberg Laws, but its jurisdiction was confined to Germany and the Sudetenland. Austria and Bohemia-Moravia were excluded. The Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland came under the direct control of the SS who gave it tasks that eventually led to the Final Solution. It continued to provide Jewish welfare and schooling. The emigration aspects ended after 1941-10-01. The Emigration sectio...

  17. Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürgers Jüdischen Glaubens

    • Central Union of German Citizens of Jewish Belief
    • CV

    1893/1938

    The Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürgers Jüdischen Glaubens was dedicated to protecting the civil and social rights of Jews in Germany, while at the same time, cultivating their German identity. The Centralverein, active from 1893/1938, was originally established in response to the rise of political anti-Semitism. Part of the union’s platform was to view Jews as a religious group. When the Nazi party rose to national power in 1933, the union opened a legal office to fight for Jewish rights, and initiated an information campaign, which at first tried to calm German Jews. After the anti-Jewi...

  18. Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden

    • Aid Association of German Jews

    1901/1939

    German Jewish organization established in 1901 mainly to help Jewish communities in Eastern Europe that had fallen victim to pogroms and wars. It supported the creation of Jewish education and social welfare institutions in Eastern Europe, as well. After the First World War the association also helped Jews emigrate from eastern Europe through Germany to locations abroad. After Hitler came to power in 1933, the association began to provide assistance for German Jews who wanted to leave Germany for countries other than Palestine (those immigrating to Palestine were served by the Jewish Agency...

  19. Council for German Jewry

    • CFGJ

    Founded in 1936

    The Council for German Jewry was a British Jewish organization established in 1936 to help German Jews leave Germany. British Jewish leaders instituted the Council for German Jewry in response to the racial Nuremberg Laws of 1935; they designed an emigration plan whereby 100,000 German Jews aged 17-35 could leave Germany in an organized manner. Half were to move to Palestine, and half to other countries. The CFGJ also hoped that another 100,000 German Jews would emigrate without their help. The American Joint Distribution Committee formally joined the council in 1936-08. The CFGJ was never ...

  20. Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft

    • IG Farben

    1925-12-09/1945-11-30

    Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft had been founded on 1925-12-09, with the recording of the merger contract between the German chemical companies Bayer, BASF, Agfa, Griesheim-Elektron, Weiler-ter Meer and Hoechst. IG Farben became the sinister symbol of the economic power of the Nazis during World War Two. The production included poison gases and foreign, often forced and sometimes enslaved, laborers made up one-half of the 333.000 personnel. Because of the company’s entanglement and active participation in the crimes of the Nazi regime the Allies ‘decartelized’ IG ...