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  1. Falkenhausen Alexander von

    • Falkenhausen, Alexander ˜vonœ 1878-1966
    • Falkenhausen, Alexander Von
    • Falkenhausen, Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann von, 1878-1966
    • Falkenhausen, Alexander Ernst 1878-1966 Baron von
    • Alexander 1878-1966 Freiherr von Falkenhausen
    • ...

    29/10/1878

    31/07/1966

    General of the German Infantry. 1940-1944 head of the military government (Chef der Militärverwaltung) in occupied Belgium and northern France, imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp after the July Plot. After the war sentenced to 12 years of hard labour for shooting 240 hostages and for the deportation of 25000 Belgian Jews but released after three weeks in recognition of the fact that he also protected Belgians from the SS.

  2. Horthy Miklós

    • Horthy, Miklós, 1868-1957
    • Horthy, Nicolaus von, 1868-1957
    • Horthy, Miklós, nagybányai, 1868-1957
    • Nagybányai Horthy, Miklós, 1868-1957
    • הורטי, ניקולאוס
    • ...

    18/06/1868

    09/02/1957

    Hungarian military officer and politician, the Regent of Hungary between March 1, 1920, and October 16, 1944. After the coup d'état of the Arrow Cross Party, he was under German house arrest. After the end of the war he settled in Portugal.

  3. Lakatos Géza

    • Lakatos, Géza
    • Lakatos, Géza, 1890-1967

    30/04/1890

    21/05/1967

    Military oficer and politician. Prime Minister of Hungary 29.08./16.10.1944.

  4. Rendulic Lothar

    • Rendulić, Lothar 1887-1971
    • Rendulič, Lotar 1887-1971
    • Rendulić, Lothar

    23/11/1887

    17/07/1971

    Wehrmacht general, during WWII in Yugoslavia, Norway and Finland.

  5. Bergen-Belsen Memorial

    • Gedenkstäte Bergen-Belsen

    After the outbreak of World War II, the Wehrmacht set up a camp for Belgian and French prisoners of war in huts at the edge of the Bergen Military Training Area. The camp was significantly expanded in the spring of 1941. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, over 21,000 Soviet POWs were deported to the camp until the autumn of 1941. Between July 1941 and April 1942, 14,000 Soviet POWs died there of starvation, disease and exposure. In April 1943, the SS took over the southern section of the camp and turned it into an “exchange camp” for Jewish prisoners. The SS decided in the s...

  6. Keitel Wilhelm

    22/09/1882

    16/10/1946

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

  7. 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

  8. 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.

  9. Bibelforscher

    • Jehovah's Witnesses

    1870s/present

    Founded in the United States in the 1870s, the Jehovah's Witnesses organization sent missionaries to Germany to seek converts in the 1890s. By the early 1930s, only 20,000 (of a total population of 65 million) Germans were Jehovah's Witnesses, usually known at the time as "International Bible Students". Even before 1933, despite their small numbers, door-to-door preaching and the identification of Jehovah's Witnesses as heretics by the mainstream Protestant and Catholic churches made them few friends. Individual German states and local authorities periodically sought to limit the group's pr...

  10. Seldte Franz

    • Seldte, Franz
    • セルデ, フランツ
    • Seldte, Franz, 1882-1947

    1882-06-29

    01/04/1947

  11. Stülpnagel Otto von

    • Stülpnagel, Otto von
    • Stülpnagel, Otto ˜vonœ 1878-1948
    • Stülpnagel, Otto v. (Otto von)

    16/06/1878

    06/08/1948

    General. Military governor of France, 1940-1942.

  12. Antonescu Ion

    • Antonescu, Ion, 1882-1946
    • Antonescu, Jon 1882-1946
    • Antonescu, Ion. 1882-1946
    • Antonescu-Hitler, ... 1882-1946
    • Antonescu, I. 1882-1946
    • ...

    15/07/1882

    01/06/1946

    Marshal and statesman who became dictator of the pro-German government during World War II. 1940 Prime minister with absolute powers, established a military dictatorship and openly embraced the Axis powers. In the summer of 1941, Antonescu ordMarshal and statesman who became dictator of the pro-German government during World War II. 1940 Prime minister with absolute powers, established a military dictatorship and openly embraced the Axis powers. In the summer of 1941, Antonescu ordered the expulsion of 150,000 Jews from Bessarabia, Bukovina, and the Dorohoi district, survivors of earlier ma...

  13. 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

  14. 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.

  15. 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).

  16. Blum Leon

    • Blum, Léon, 1872-1950
    • Blum, Leʾon, 1872-1950
    • בלום, ליאון, 1872־1950
    • בלום, ליאון
    • בלום, לאיון
    • ...

    09/04/1872

    30/03/1950

    French statesman. First Jew and first Socialist to be premier of France (05.06.1936-19.06.1937 and 13.03.-10.04.1938), opposed granting absolute powers to Petain. Arrested on Petain's orders. Riom Trials (1942). Turned over to the Germans in March 1943. Liberated with the Niederdorf group.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. Imrédy Béla

    • Imrédy, Béla, 1891-1946
    • Imredy, Bela

    29/12/1891

    28/02/1946

    Hungarian economist and politician, the Minister of Finance under the Gömbös Cabinet (1932-36), and the President of the Hungarian National Bank. Under Prime Minister Darányi he was Minister of Economics. From May 14, 1938, to February 14, 1939, he was Prime Minister. He founded the Party of Hungarian Renewal (Magyar Megújulás Pártja) in 1940. The first anti-Jewish law was passed under and the second was introduced by his government. He resigned when it was suggested that he had Jewish ancestors; the main reason for his downfall, however, was that his politics was incompatible with Horthy’s...

  20. 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