Description
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Lifespan
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Death / Nuremberg verdict
|
Person
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Führer
|
1889–1945
|
suicide
|
Adolf Hitler
|
orator and Minister of Propaganda
|
1897–1945
|
suicide
|
Joseph Goebbels
|
Leader of the SS, Holocaust organiser
|
1900–1945
|
suicide in capture
|
Heinrich Himmler
|
field marshal known as the "Desert Fox"
|
1891–1944
|
forced suicide
|
Erwin Rommel
|
engineer who developed Nazi rockets
|
1912–1977
|
–
|
Wernher von Braun
|
influential Commander of the Luftwaffe
|
1893–1946
|
suicide in prison
|
Hermann Göring
|
companion, later wife of #1
|
1912–1945
|
suicide
|
Eva Braun
|
female director of Nazi propaganda films
|
1902–2003
|
–
|
Leni Riefenstahl
|
Minister of Foreign Affairs since 1938
|
1893–1946
|
death sentence
|
Joachim von Ribbentrop
|
Commander of the Navy, succeeded #1
|
1891–1980
|
10 years
|
Karl Dönitz
|
major Holocaust organiser, hid in Argentina
|
1906–1962
|
executed in Israel
|
Adolf Eichmann
|
Deputy Führer, imprisoned since 1941
|
1894–1987
|
lifelong
|
Rudolf Heß
|
officer who tried to assassinate #1
|
1907–1944
|
executed by Nazis
|
Claus von Stauffenberg
|
powerful head of the Party Chancellery
|
1900–1945
|
death sentence
|
Martin Bormann
|
main architect of the Holocaust
|
1904–1942
|
assassinated
|
Reinhard Heydrich
|
Minister of Armaments and War Production
|
1905–1981
|
20 years
|
Albert Speer
|
vice-chancellor 1933–34, then ambassador
|
1879–1969
|
acquitted
|
Franz von Papen
|
Auschwitz physician, "Angel of Death"
|
1911–1979
|
–
|
Josef Mengele
|
leader of the Command of the Wehrmacht
|
1882–1946
|
death sentence
|
Wilhelm Keitel
|
chief of Operations Staff of the Wehrmacht
|
1890–1946
|
death sentence
|
Alfred Jodl
|
commander of the SA, executed in a purge
|
1887–1934
|
executed by Nazis
|
Ernst Röhm
|
head of Party Office of Foreign Affairs a.o.t.
|
1893–1946
|
death sentence
|
Alfred Rosenberg
|
general, blitzkrieg & panzer division pioneer
|
1888–1954
|
–
|
Heinz Guderian
|
commander during the Battle of Stalingrad
|
1890–1957
|
–
|
Friedrich Paulus
|