Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski – An SS-Obergruppenführerund General der Polizei, he was the commander of the "Bandenkampfverbände" SS units responsible for the mass murder of 35,000 civilians in Riga and more than 200,000 in Belarus and eastern Poland.
Herbert Backe –State Secretary (1933–1944) in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture and later Reich Minister (1944–1945), he was also an SS-Obergruppenführer. An architect of the infamousHunger Plan.
Richard Baer – Commander of theAuschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to February 1945.
Hans-Friedrich Blunck – Propagandist and head of the Reich Literature Chamber between 1933 and 1935.
Ernst Boepple – State Secretary of the General Government in Poland, serving as deputy to Deputy GovernorJosef Bühler. Deeply implicated in the "Final Solution".
Martin Bormann –Reichsleiter, head of theParty Chancellery (Parteikanzlei) and Secretary to the Führer, Adolf Hitler. Also an SS-Obergruppenführer, he committed suicide in May 1945. Convicted of war crimes and sentenced to deathin absentia by theNuremberg Tribunal.
Viktor Brack – Organizer of the Euthanasia program, Operation T4 and one of the men responsible for the gassing of Jews in theextermination camps. In 1936, he was also appointed chief ofHauptamt II (main office II) in theChancellery of the Führer.
Karl Brandt – Personal physician of Adolf Hitler in August 1944 and co-headed the administration of theAktion T4 euthanasia program from 1939. He was an SS-Gruppenführer.
Walther von Brauchitsch –Generalfeldmarschall, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army 1938–1941.
Franz Breithaupt, AnSS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS, he was Chief of theSS Court Main Office from 1942 to 1945, with exclusive jurisdiction for conducting investigations and trials of SS personnel.
Alois Brunner – Commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944.
Walter Buch –Jurist,Reichsleiter, Chairman of theUschla 1927–1933 and Supreme Party Judge 1934–1945. He was an SS-Obergruppenführer.
Friedrich Buchardt – Member of theEinsatzgruppendeath squads, who started off grading people on their Germanness and then progressed to outright genocide. Attributed to having been responsible for sending tens of thousands to their deaths, avoided justice by working for the Allied powers as an "Intelligence Source" on the Soviets.
Werner Catel – Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at theUniversity of Leipzig, considered an expert on the program of euthanasia for children and participated in theAktion T4 program.
Otto Dietrich –Reichsleiter, Reich Press Chief, Vice-President of the Reich Press Chamber, State Secretary in the Ministry of Propaganda and an SS-Obergruppenführer.
Karl Dönitz –Großadmiral,Führer der Unterseeboote (Commander of Submarines) 1936–1943, Commander-in-Chief of theKriegsmarine 1943–1945 and the last head of state of Nazi Germany following Hitler's suicide.
Adolf Eichmann – SS-Obersturmbannführer. Official in charge ofRSHAReferat IV B4 (RSHA Sub-Department IV-B4); responsible for facilitation and transportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps. Fled to Argentina; captured there byMossad operatives in 1960, tried inIsrael and executed on 1 June 1962.
Hermann Fegelein – An SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS, he was married toEva Braun’s sister,Gretl. The SS Liaison Officer to Hitler’s headquarters, he was shot for desertion in April 1945.
Hans Frank – A lawyer, he was Hitler's legal advisor, anUschla judge,Reichsleiter for Legal Issues, Bavarian Minister of Justice, President of theAcademy for German Law (1933–1942) Reich Minister without portfolio and Governor-General ofoccupied Poland. He was also an SA-Obergruppenführer. Involved in perpetration of theHolocaust, he was convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Wilhelm Frick –Reichsleiter, Reich Minister of Interior (1933–1943); Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (1943–1945). Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Herbert Otto Gille – SS-Obergruppenfuhrer; Waffen-SS General. Awarded the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds and the German Cross in Gold, became the most highly decorated Waffen-SS member during World War II.
Richard Glücks – SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Waffen-SS, he wasConcentration Camps Inspector (CCI) after Eicke, from 1939 to 1945, and committed suicide in May 1945.
Robert Ritter von Greim –LuftwaffeGeneralfeldmarschall and lastLuftwaffe Commander-in-Chief succeeding the deposed Hermann Göring in the last days of World War II.
Arthur Greiser –Reichsstatthalter andGauleiter ofReichsgau Wartheland from 1939 to 1945, he was anObergruppenfuhrer in both the SS and the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK).
Wilhelm Grimm –Reichsleiter; Chairman of the Second Chamber of theSupreme Party Court 1932–1939 and an SS-Gruppenführer. Died in a car accident in 1944.
Eugen Hadamovsky – National programming director for German radio; chief of staff in the Nazi Party's Central Propaganda Office (Reichspropagandaleitung) in Berlin from 1942 to 1944.
Heinrich Hager – SA-Oberführer. Elected at Reichstag 1932 to his death in 1941. Leader of SA Brigade 77.
Karl Hanke – A State Secretary in the Ministry of Propaganda (1937–1941);Gauleiter ofGau Lower Silesia andOberpräsident of the PrussianProvince of Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945; the lastReichsführer-SS (after Himmler was expelled from office by Hitler) from late April to early May 1945.
Paul Hausser – SS-Oberstgruppenführer;Generaloberst der Waffen-SS. First commander of the militarySS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) that grew into the Waffen-SS, in which he was a prominent field commander.
Franz Hayler – State Secretary and Deputy to the Reich Economics Minister during the latter part of World War II.
Martin Heidegger – Eminent philosopher; NSDAP member who supported Hitler after he became Chancellor in 1933.
Erhard Heiden – Founding member of theSchutzstaffel (SS); its thirdReichsführer from 1927 to 1929.
August Heißmeyer – An SS-Obergruppenführer, he led theSS Main Office (1935–1939) and was the Higher SS and Police Leader for Berlin and Brandenburg (1939–1945).
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff – An SA-Obergruppenführer andGeneral der Polizei, he was Police President of Potsdam (1933–1935) and Berlin (1935–1944) where he led anti-Jewish riots. Involved in the20 July Plot, he was executed in 1944.
Otto Hellmuth –Gauleiter ofGau Mainfranken and anObergruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK).
Rudolf Hess (not to be confused withRudolf Höß) –Reichsleiter, SS-Obergruppenführer and DeputyFührer to Hitler until his flight toScotland on the eve of the German invasion of theSoviet Union in June 1941.
Walther Hewel – An early Party member and a participant in the Beer Hall Putsch. He was a protégé of Foreign MinisterJoachim von Ribbentrop, a "Special Ambassador" and the Foreign Office liaison to Hitler. He was a personal friend of Hitler and an SS-Brigadeführer.
Werner Heyde – Psychiatrist; one of the main organizers of the T-4 Euthanasia Program.
Reinhard Heydrich – SS-Obergruppenführer;General der Polizei, Chief of the RSHA orReichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Main Office: including theGestapo,SD andKripopolice agencies);Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia. He was Himmler's "right-hand man", and considered a principal architect of theNight of the Long Knives and theFinal Solution. Assassinated in Prague in 1942 by British-trained Czech commandos.
Hans Hinkel – Journalist; Commissioner at the Reich Ministry for the People's Enlightenment and Propaganda.
August Hirt – Chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg; instigated a plan to build a study-collection of specialized human anatomical specimens from over 100 murdered Jews. Allied discovery of corpses, paperwork and statements of laboratory assistants led to war crimes trial preparation, which he avoided through suicide.
Adolf Hitler – Politician; leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German:Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. Dictator of Germany from 1934 to 1945, with titles of Chancellor from 1933 to 1945 and head of state (Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945.
Albert Hoffmann – TheGauleiter ofGau Westphalia-South from 1943 to 1945, at the same time he was Deputy to Goebbels in his capacity as Reich Inspector for Civil Air Warfare Measures and an SS-Gruppenführer.
Hermann Höfle – Deputy toOdilo Globocnik in the Aktion Reinhard program. Played a key role in the "Harvest Festival" massacre of Jewish inmates of various labor camps in the Lublin district of Nazi-occupied Poland in early November 1943.
Franz Josef Huber – former Munich political police department inspector withHeinrich Müller; in 1938 appointed chief of the Security Police (SiPo) andGestapo for Vienna and the "Lower Danube", and "Upper Danube" regions of Austria.
Karl Jäger – SS officer;Einsatzkommando leader; author of the "Jäger Report" giving details of mass murders in Lithuania between July and December 1941.
Friedrich Jeckeln – An SS-Obergruppenführer andGeneral der Polizei und Waffen-SS, he was the Higher SS and Police Leader inUkraine and, later, inOstland. He was in charge of one of the largest collection ofEinsatzgruppen and personally responsible for ordering the deaths of over 100,000 Jews, Slavs and Roma.
Alfred Jodl –Generaloberst; Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, or OKW) during World War II, acting as deputy to Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner – SS-Obergruppenführer;General der Polizei und Waffen-SS. Chief of theRSHA (Reich Security Main Office), a main office of the SS, from January 1943 to Germany's surrender in May 1945. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Hans Kammler – SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS, he was the SS Construction Projects andV-2 program director.
Wilhelm Keitel –Generalfeldmarschall and head of theOberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces) during World War II. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Hanns Kerrl – Reich Minister of Church Affairs and First Deputy President of theReichstag until his death in 1941.
Wilhelm Kube –Gauleiter of Gau Ostmark (1928–1933) andKurmark (1933–1936), he was alsoOberpräsident of the Prussian provinces ofBrandenburg andPosen-West Prussia from 1933 to 1936. He was theGeneralkommissar forWeißruthenien (White Ruthenia) in theReichskommissariat Ostland from 1941 until assassinated bypartisans in 1943. He was an SS-Gruppenführer.
Hans Lammers – Head of theReich Chancellery and Reich Minister without portfolio. He was also an SS-Obergruppenführer.
Herbert Lange – SS-Sturmbannführer;Chełmno extermination camp commandant, implicated in thousands of gassings there; supervised the execution of 1,558 mental patients atSoldau concentration camp.
Karl-Siegmund Litzmann – Head of the National Socialist Equestrian Corps and an SA-Obergruppenführer, he was theGeneralkommissar ofoccupied Estonia from 1941 to 1944.
Werner Lorenz – Waffen-SS general; leader of theVolksdeutsche Mittelstelle, an organization charged with settling ethnic Germans in the Reich from other parts of Europe.
Martin Luther – Advisor & Undersecrtary of State to Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop; SA-Brigadeführer; participant in theWannsee Conference.
Emil Maurice – Personal friend of Hitler, first head of the SA and one of the founding members of the SS. But referred to in 1960 paperbackEichmann: the Man and His Crimes as Hitler's chauffeur, speculating whether Hitler knew he was a French Jew.
Josef Mengele – SS-Hauptsturmführer; physician atAuschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, who conducted medical experiments on inmates; especially children.
Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling – SS-Sturmbannführer in Hitler's Chancellery; adjutant of Philipp Bouhler; staff officer,Reichsführer-SS and SS Main Office.
Erhard Milch – AGeneralfeldmarschall of theLuftwaffe, he was State Secretary of theReich Aviation Ministry from its inception in 1933, Inspector-General of theLuftwaffe from 1939 and its Chief of Procurement, Armaments & Supply from 1941.
Leopold von Mildenstein – Pro-Zionism expert in the headquarters of theSicherheitsdienst (SD) underReinhard Heydrich until 1936, when the planned mass immigration of Jews toPalestine fell out of favor; convincedAdolf Eichmann to transfer to his SS department which handled "Jewish Affairs".
Walter Model –Generalfeldmarschall and one of Hitler's favorite commanders, he held Army Group commands on the Eastern Front and briefly as Commander-in-Chief in the West. He committed suicide in theRuhr pocket in April 1945.
Ludwig Müller – Appointed “Reich Bishop” he was the leader of theGerman Christians and sought to unify all 28 Protestant regional churches into a unified “Reich Church” under authoritarian and anti-Semitic Nazi principles.
Martin Mutschmann – He wasGauleiter,Reichsstatthalter and Minister President ofGau Saxony. Also an SA-Obergruppenführer, he was executed in theSoviet Union in 1947.
Arthur Nebe – SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei; Berlin Police Commissioner in the 1920s; early member of bothSturmabteilung (SA) andSchutzstaffel (SS); Interpol President from June 1942 to 1943; appointed head ofKriminalpolizei (Criminal Police) or Kripo under Heydrich. Executed in 1945 for alleged involvement in the20 July Plot.
Otto Ohlendorf – An SS-Gruppenführer, he headedSD, domestic branch, the RSHA department responsible for intelligence and security within Nazi Germany. He also ledEinsatzgruppe D and was executed for war crimes.
Wilhelm Ohnesorge – State Secretary from 1933 and Reich Minister (1937–1945) in the Reich Postal Ministry. He was anObergruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Korps (NSKK).
Franz von Papen – A prominent politician andreactionary in theWeimar Republic, he engineered Hitler's appointment as Chancellor with himself as Vice Chancellor. Outmaneuvered by Hitler, he was ousted in 1934 but continued to serve the Third Reich as Ambassador toAustria (1934–1938) and Turkey (1939–1944). He was acquitted of war crimes by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Artur Phleps – SS-Obergruppenführer; saw action with 5. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Wiking; later commanded 7. SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division Prinz Eugen and the V SS Mountain Corps; killed in September 1944.
Paul Pleiger – General Director and Supervisory Board Chairman of theReichswerke Hermann Göring. Reich Commissioner for Coal Supply. War Economy Leader.
Hans-Adolf Prützmann – An SS-Obergruppenführer, he was the Higher SS and Police Leader in Northern Russia and, later, Supreme SS and Police Leader in Ukraine.
Sigmund Rascher – SS doctor who carried out experiments on inmates at Dachau concentration camp.
Johann Rattenhuber – A policeman and SS-Gruppenführer, he headed theReichssicherheitsdienst (Reich Security Service) that provided personal protection for Hitler and other Nazi leaders.
Walter Rauff – SS-Standartenführer and aide to Reinhard Heydrich. He escaped captivity at the end of the war, subsequently working for the Syrian Intelligence.
Walter Reder – SS-Sturmbannführer convicted of war crimes in Italy.
Wilhelm Rediess – Commanding General of SS forces in occupied Norway from 1940 to 1945.
Walter von Reichenau –Generalfeldmarschall and committed Nazi; he joined the Party in 1932 in violation of regulations and was one of the few ardent National Socialists among the Army's senior officers.
Fritz Reinhardt – Head of the Nazi Party training School for Orators. An economics and tax specialist, he became State Secretary in theReich Ministry of Finance 1933 to 1945 and was an SA-Obergruppenführer.
Joachim von Ribbentrop –Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany from 1938 until 1945 and an SS-Obergruppenführer. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Leni Riefenstahl – German photographer, actress and film director who, in close collaboration with the Nazi Party, produced major films of Nazi propaganda, includingTriumph of the Will andOlympia.
Ernst Röhm – A co-founder of theSturmabteilung (Storm Battalion) or SA, the Nazi Party militia. Later the SA-Stabschef, aReichleiter and Reich Minister without portfolio. In 1934, as part of theNight of the Long Knives, he was executed on Hitler's orders as a potential rival.
Erwin Rösener – SS-Obergruppenführer, Higher SS and Police Leader, Commander SS Upper Division Alpenland (1941–1945).
Curt Rothenberger – A lawyer, judge and legal theorist, he advocated "partification" of the judiciary.State Secretary in theReich Ministry of Justice (1942–43), he was sentenced to seven years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity at theJudges' Trial and died by suicide in 1959.
Karl Röver – He wasGauleiter ofGau Weser-Ems andReichsstatthalter of bothOldenburg andBremen until his death in 1942. He was also anObergruppenführer in both the SA and the NSKK.
Ernst Rudin – Psychiatrist and eugenicist. His work directly influenced the racial policy of Nazi Germany.
Bernhard Rust – Reich Minister of Science, Education and National Culture from 1934 to 1945 andGauleiter ofGau Southern Hanover-Brunswick (1928–1940). He was an SA-Obergruppenführer.
Fritz Sauckel –Gauleiter ofGau Thuringia,Reichsstatthalter ofThuringia, GeneralPlenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (1942–45) and anObergruppenführer in both the SA and the SS. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Hjalmar Schacht – An economist, banker and politician, who served as the Currency Commissioner and President of theReichsbank under theWeimar Republic. A fierce critic of post-World War I reparation obligations, he became a supporter of Hitler and served as President of theReichsbank and Reich Minister of Economics. He played a key role in restoring the German economy but since he opposed the policy of German re-armament, Schacht was first sidelined and then forced out beginning in December 1937. Schacht became a fringe member of the German Resistance and was imprisoned after the20 July plot in 1944. He was tried at Nuremberg and acquitted.
Paul Schäfer – Hitler Youth member and Wehrmacht corporal, subsequently convicted for multiple charges of child sex abuse in Chile.
Walther Schellenberg – SS-Brigadeführer who rose through the SS as Heydrich's deputy. In March 1942, he became Chief of Department VI,SD-foreign branch, which, by then, was a department of the RSHA. Later, following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944, he became head of all foreign intelligence.
Baldur von Schirach –Reichsleiter for Youth Education, leader of theHitler Youth (1931–40) andGauleiter &Reichsstatthalter of Vienna (1940–45). He was an SA-Obergruppenführer.
Franz Schlegelberger – Jurist and State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice (1931–1941) he became Acting Reich Minister of Justice (1941–1942).
Fritz Schlessmann – Police President, DeputyGauleiter and ActingGauleiter ofGau Essen. He was also an SS-Obergruppenführer.
Albert Schmierer - Head of the Reich pharmacistsReichsapothekerführer (1933-1945).
Carl Schmitt – Philosopher, jurist, and political theorist.
Kurt Schmitt – Economic leader and Reich Economomics Minister (1933–1934).
Wilhelm Freiherr von Schorlemer – SA-Obergruppenführer. Member of the constituency of the National SocialistReichstag. Leader of SA Group "Danube". (1938–1945).
Ferdinand Schörner – AGeneralfeldmarschall, he was a committed Nazi loyalist known for brutality and harsh discipline. A holder of theGolden Party Badge, he was appointed the last Commander-in-Chief of the German Army in Hitler’s will.
Julius Schreck – Co-founder of the SA andStoßtrupp-Hitler. The first commander of the SS from April 1925 to April 1926. Later Hitler's personal chauffeur.
Arthur Seyss-Inquart – Austrian Nazi; upon being appointed Chancellor in 1938 he invited in German troops resulting in Austria's annexation. Later Deputy toHans Frank in theGeneral Government of occupiedPoland (1939–40), andReichskommissar of theNetherlands (1940–44). He was also an SS-Obergruppenführer. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Ludwig Siebert – Minister President and Minister of Finance in Bavaria until his death in 1942, he was also an SA-Obergruppenführer.
Gustav Simon –Gauleiter ofGau Moselland from 1931 and Chief of Civil Administration inLuxembourg from 1940 to 1944. He was an NSKK-Obergruppenführer.
Franz Six – Chief of Amt VII, Written Records of theReichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) which dealt with ideological tasks. These included the creation of anti-semitic, anti-masonic propaganda, the sounding of public opinion and monitoring of Nazi indoctrination by the public.
Otto Skorzeny – An SS-Obersturmbannführer, he headed many commando operations including the rescue from captivity of Italian dictatorBenito Mussolini.
Felix Steiner – SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS. He was chosen by Himmler to oversee the creation of, and command the volunteer Waffen-SS Division,5th SS Panzer Division Wiking.
Walter Stennes – the Berlin commandant of the Sturmabteilung (SA), who in the summer of 1930 and again in the spring of 1931 led a revolt against the NSDAP in Berlin as these SA members saw their organization as a revolutionary group, the vanguard of a socialist order that would overthrow the hated Republic. Both revolts were put down and Stennes was expelled from the Nazi Party. He left Germany in 1933 and worked as a military adviser to Chiang Kai-shek.
Otto Strasser – early prominent GermanNazi official and politician. Otto Strasser, together with his brotherGregor Strasser, was a leading member of the party'sleft-wing faction, and broke from the party due to disputes with the dominant "Hitlerite" faction.
Julius Streicher – founder and publisher of anti-semitic Nazi newspaperDer Stürmer (1923–1945),Gauleiter of Franconia (1929–40). Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Karl Strölin – Lord Mayor of Stuttgart (1933–1945) and Chairman of theDeutsches Ausland-Institut (DAI).
Jürgen Stroop – SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei. Stroop's most prominent role was the suppression of theWarsaw Ghetto Uprising, an action which cost the lives of over 50,000 people.
Wilhelm Stuckart – Jurist, State Secretary in the Interior Ministry and attendee at theWannsee Conference. He was also an SS-Obergruppenführer.
Fritz Todt – civil engineer, Director of the Head Office for Engineering, Inspector General for German Roadways, General Commissioner for the Regulation of the Construction Industry, Inspector General for Water and Energy and founder and head ofOrganisation Todt. Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions from 1940, he died in a plane crash in February 1942. He was also aLuftwaffeGeneralmajor, an SA-Obergruppenführer and (posthumously) the first recipient of theGerman Order.
Fritz Wächtler –Gauleiter of the eastern Bavarian administrative region ofGau Bayreuth. He was anObergruppenführer in both the SA and the SS.
Otto Wächter – Austrian lawyer and high-ranking member of the SS. He was appointed to government positions in Poland and Italy. In 1940 68,000Jews were expelled from Krakow, Poland and in 1941 theKraków Ghetto was created for the remaining 15,000 Jews by hisdecrees.
Otto Wagener – Soldier and economist. Was successivelyStabschef of the SA, head of the Party Economic Policy Section, and briefly, Reich Commissar for the Economy. Subsequently he resumed his army career, reaching the rank ofGeneralmajor.
Adolf Wagner – A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch, he wasGauleiter ofGau Munich-Upper Bavaria as well as Deputy Minister President and Interior Minister of Bavaria. He was an SA-Obergruppenführer.
Gerhard Wagner – Reich Health Leader (Reichsärzteführer) from 1934 to 1939.
Josef Wagner –Gauleiter ofGau Westphalia-South from 1931 and also ofGau Silesia from 1934.Oberpräsident of the Prussian provinces of bothUpper Silesia andLower Silesia from 1934 and, after their union, theProvince of Silesia (1938–1941). He was also anObergruppenführer of both the SA and NSKK. Relieved of his posts in November 1941 and expelled from the Nazi Party in October 1942, he was executed by the Gestapo in 1945.
Robert Heinrich Wagner – A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch, he wasGauleiter ofGau Baden from 1925 andReichsstatthalter ofBaden. He was also Chief of Civil Administration for occupiedAlsace from 1940 to 1944 and an NSKK-Obergruppenführer.
Karl Wahl – An early Party member, he wasGauleiter ofGau Swabia and an SS-Obergruppenführer.
Paul Wegener – A regional administrator inoccupied Norway from 1940 to 1942, he succeededKarl Röver asGauleiter ofGau Weser-Ems andReichsstatthalter of bothOldenburg andBremen from 1942 to 1945. He was an SS-Obergruppenführer. PresidentKarl Dönitz named him a State Secretary as staff chief of the civilian cabinet in May 1945.
Karl Weinrich – He wasGauleiter ofGau Electoral Hesse from 1928 to 1943 and anObergruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Corp (NSKK).
Ernst von Weizsäcker – A career diplomat, he was State Secretary in the Foreign Office from 1938 to 1943 and Ambassador to theHoly See from 1943 to 1945. An SS-Brigadeführer, he was convicted of war crimes in theMinistries Trial.
Wilhelm Weiß – Editor-in-Chief of the Nazi Party's official newspaper, theVölkischer Beobachter, from 1938 to 1945, President of the Reich Press Association and an SA-Obergruppenführer.
Horst Wessel –Sturmführer in the Berlin SA and author of theHorst-Wessel-Lied ("Die Fahne Hoch"), the Party anthem. Elevated to martyr status by Nazi propaganda after his 1930 murder– by Communists or by a rival pimp, according to their opponents.
Max Winkler – Reich Commissioner for the German Film Industry.
Christian Wirth – SS-Obersturmführer. He was a senior German police and SS officer during the program to exterminate the Jewish people of occupied Poland during World War II, known as "Operation Reinhard". Wirth was a top aide ofOdilo Globocnik, the overall director of "Operation Reinhard" (Aktion Reinhard or Einsatz Reinhard).
Hermann Wirth – Dutch-German historian and scholar of ancient religions and symbols. He co-founded the SS-organizationAhnenerbe, but was later pushed out by Heinrich Himmler.
Eduard Wirths – Chief camp physician at Auschwitz concentration camp from 1942 to 1945.
Karl Wolff – SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS. He became Chief of Personal Staff to theReichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler) and SS Liaison Officer to Hitler until his replacement in 1943. From 1943 to 1945, Wolff was the Supreme SS and Police Leader of the 'Italien' area. By 1945 Wolff was acting military commander of Italy, and in that capacity negotiated the surrender of all the forces in the Southwest Front.
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