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  1. Bach-Zelewski Erich von dem

    • Bach, Erich ˜von demœ 1899-1972
    • Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem, 1899-1972
    • Zelewski, Erich von dem Bach-, 1899-1972
    • Bach-Zalewski, Erich von dem, 1899-1972
    • Zalewski, Erich von dem Bach- 1899-1972
    • ...

    01/03/1899

    08/03/1972

    SS-Obergruppenführer , General der Polizei (General of police) (1944). 1938 Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer in Silesia, 1941 HSSPF Russland-Mitte, head of Einsatzgruppe B. Since 21 June 1943 Bevollmächtigter des Reichsführer-SS zur Bandenbekämpfung (murder of Jews and partisans). 1944 suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. End of 1944/1945 Stabschef des Befehlshabers des Ersatzheeres. In the Nuremberg Trials crown witness for the prosecution. Sentenced to life for the murder of three communists in 1961.

  2. Baeck Leo

    23/05/1873

    02/11/1956

    Rabbi, president of the Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden (renamed the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland after the Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935), sent to Terezin aged 70.

  3. Best Werner

    • Best, Werner
    • Best, Werner, 1903-1989
    • Best, Werner, 1903-
    • Best, Karl Rudolf Werner, 1903-1989
    • Best, Werner Karl Rudolf, 1903-1989
    • ...

    10/07/1903

    23/06/1989

    SS-Obergruppenführer (1944). Deputy of Reinhard Heydrich in the SD and later in the RSHA (1934–1940). German Statthalter in occupied Denmark (1942–1945).

  4. Blobel Paul

    • Blobel, Paul 1894-1951
    • Blobel, Paul

    13/08/1894

    07/06/1951

    SS-Standartenführer (1941), head of Sonderkommando 4a, Leiter (head ) of the massacre of 33 771 Jews in the ravine of Babi Jar near Kiev. Later head of Sonderkommando 1005. Sentenced to death in Einsatzgruppen Trial and executed.

  5. 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.

  6. Bouhler Philipp

    • Bouhler, Philipp, 1899-1945
    • Būlers, Filips, 1899-1945
    • Bouhler, Philipp

    11/09/1899

    19/05/1945

    Euthanasiebevollmächtigter Hitlers (1939). Suicide.

  7. Brack Viktor

    • Brack, Viktor, 1904-1948
    • Brack, Victor 1904-1948
    • Brack, Viktor

    09/11/1904

    02/06/1948

    Head of Amt II in the Kanzlei des Führers (KdF), one of the main leaders of the T4 "Euthanasie" program and organiser of medical experiments in concentration camps. Sentenced to death in Nuremberg Doctors' Trial and executed.

  8. Brandt Karl

    • Brandt, Karl, ca. 1904-1948
    • Brandt, Karl, 1904-1948
    • Brandt, Karl
    • Brandt, K. 1904-1948
    • Brandt, Carl 1904-1948

    08/01/1904

    02/06/1948

    Brandt headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939 onwards and was selected as Adolf Hitler's personal physician in August 1934.

  9. Brandt Rudolf

    • Brandt, Rudolf, 1909-1948
    • Brandt, Rudolf

    02/06/1909

    02/06/1948

    SS-Standartenführer (1944). Personal referent of Himmler. Head of the Ministerbüro in the Reichsinnenministerium (Reich Ministry of the Interior). Participated in the organisation of the murder of at least 86 Jews for Hirt's skeleton collection in Strassburg. Sentenced to death in Nuremberg Doctors' Trial.

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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 ...

  13. Demjanjuk John Iwan

    • דמיאניוק, ג'ון, 1920-2012
    • Demyanyuk, Ivan, 1920-2012
    • Demyanyuk, G'ohn, 1920-2012
    • Demjanjuk, Iwan, 1920-2012
    • דמיניוק, ג'ון
    • ...

    03/04/1920

    17/12/2012

    Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who immigrated to the United States and was extradited to Israel, was accused of serving as a guard in the Treblinka extermination camp during the war. The inmates of the camp referred to him as "Ivan the Terrible". In 1987, Ivan Demjanjuk was placed on trial in Jerusalem in accordance with the Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law. The Jerusalem District Court, in session with the special panel of Judges Dov Levin, Tzvi Tal and Dalia Dorner, found Demjanjuk guilty and sentenced him to death. Demjanjuk appealed the verdict, and in 1993, he was acquitted because...

  14. 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).

  15. 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.

  16. Frick Wilhelm

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

    12/03/1877

    16/10/1946

    Minister of the Interior, Bulgaria, 1940-1943.

  17. Funk Walther Emanuel

    1890/08/18

    31/05/1960

    Reichswirtschaftsminister (Reich minister for economic affairs).

  18. Ginz Petr

    • Ginz, Petr
    • Ginz, Pitẹr 1928-1944
    • Ginze, Petra, 1928-1944
    • Ginz, Peter, 1928-1944
    • גינז, פטר
    • ...

    1928

    1944

    Jewish teenager who spent his adolescence in the children’s home in the Terezin ghetto camp. Talented at writing and drawing, he edited the youth newspaper Vedem ‘We are the Leaders’ and wrote a diary. He was murdered in Auschwitz.

  19. Globke Hans

    • Globke, Hans, 1898-1973
    • Globke, Hans
    • Globke, Hans Josef Maria, 1898-1973
    • Globke, Hans Maria 1898-1973
    • גלאבקע, האנס
    • ...

    10/09/1898

    13/02/1973

    Jurist. Leading legal expert in the German Interior Ministry (Reichsinnenministerium), involved in drafting Nazi laws, including the implementation decrees to the Nuremberg Laws.

  20. 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.