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  1. Komisarstvo Evreyskite Vaprosi

    • Commissariat for Jewish Questions
    • KEV

    Founded in 1940

    The Bulgarian government created in 1940 the Komisarstvo Evreyskite Vaprosi to implement and oversee Jewish policies. The KEV was headed by Alexander Belev, an attorney just returned from Germany, where he had studied the Nuremberg Laws to help write the Zakon ze Zashtita na Natziata (Law for the Protection of the Nation). The KEV was funded by property stolen from Jews.

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. Frick Wilhelm

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

    12/03/1877

    16/10/1946

    Minister of the Interior, Bulgaria, 1940-1943.

  5. Hitler Adolf

    • Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
    • Hitler.
    • Hitler, Adolph, 1889-1945
    • Khitker, Adolf, 1889-1945
    • Hitler, Adolf
    • ...

    20/04/1889

    30/04/1945

    Führer and Reichskanzler, since 04.02.1938 Oberbefehlshaber der Wehrmacht.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Heß Rudolf

    • Hess, Rudolf
    • Hess, Rudolf, 1894-1987
    • Hess, Walter Richard Rudolf, 1894-1987
    • Hess, Richard Walter Rudolf, 1894-1987
    • Hīs, Rūdulf 1894-1987
    • ...

    26/04/1894

    17/08/1987

    Stellvertreter des Führers (StdF).

  9. International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg

    • Mezinárodní vojenský tribunál v Norimberku
    • Międzynarodowy Trybunał Wojskowy w Norymberdze
    • Internationaler Militärgerichtshof (IMG)

    20 November 1945 - 1 October 1946

    The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg was established after the mutual agreement of Great Britain, France, United States and the Soviet Union to punish captured Nazi officials for their war crimes. The main proceeding was lead against 24 Nazi representatives (including Hermann Göring or Rudolf Hess) and also against representatives of 6 criminal organizations (NSDAP, SS, SD, Gestapo, SA, OKW - these organizations were prohibited). During the proceeding were the accused sentenced to death, life imprisonment or 10-20 years of imprisonment. After the main proceeding went after subse...

  10. 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).

  11. 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.

  12. Vermögensverkehrsstelle Wien

    • Property Registration Office in Vienna

    Founded in 1938-05-18

    On the basis of a decree of 1938-04-26 enforced in 1938-06, persons considered 'Jewish' under the racist Nuremberg Laws were required to register their property over RM 5,000 at the Vermögensverkehrsstelle, an authority created on 1938-05-18. The asset registrations formed the basis of later confiscations. The Vermögensverkehrsstelle had also an office in Vienna.

  13. 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...

  14. Helmut Rudersdorf

    • הלמוט רודרסדורף

    Coordinator of Expropriation and Confiscation of Jewish Assets in Nuremberg

  15. Theodor Grafenberger

    Head of the Jewish Department in Nuremberg

  16. Martin Benno

    • מרטין בנו

    Chief of Police in Nuremberg-Fürth, SS-Obergruppenführer, General of the Waffen SS and Higher SS and Chief of Police (Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer) Main

  17. Hans Match

    • הנס מאכט

    Staff member at the Jewish Affairs desk of Nuremberg Gestapo

  18. 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.

  19. Gustave Mark Gilbert

    Gustave Mark Gilbert was an American psychologist best known for his psychological diagnoses of high ranking Nazi leaders and officials during the Nuremberg Trials.

  20. Yitzhak Stone

    Nuerenberg Trials