People of the Revolution and the USSR
Nazi party and regime
Background: Germany
The revolutionary wave and the world war 1917–1945
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GlossaryNazi party and regime
- Erich Raeder Erich Raeder A Nazi German naval commander who pursued a grand surface fleet
- Erich von Manstein Erich von Manstein Nazi Germany's finest operational strategist and the apex of the 'clean Wehrmacht' myth
- Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch Commander of the Waffen-SS IX Mountain Corps who led the German forces in the siege of Budapest and refused to surrender
- Ferenc Feketehalmy-Czeydner Feketehalmy-Czeydner Ferenc Hungarian general who directed the Novi Sad massacre, fled to Germany after his conviction and joined the SS
- Karl Dönitz Karl Dönitz German naval commander of the U-boat fleet who briefly became head of state after Hitler's death.
- Alfred Rosenberg Alfred Rosenberg Baltic German Nazi ideologue from Reval who served as Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories in 1941–1945
- Hermann Göring Hermann Göring A Luftwaffe chief who organized Nazi war and plunder
- Dietrich von Hugo Hermann Choltitz Dietrich von Choltitz The German general who surrendered Paris rather than destroy it
- Rudolf Hess Rudolf Hess Nazi Party leader and Hitler’s deputy, sentenced to life imprisonment at the Nuremberg trials.
- Oskar Dirlewanger Oskar Dirlewanger SS special-unit commander implicated in the Wola massacre
- Friedrich Jeckeln Friedrich Jeckeln Higher SS and Police Leader who directed the mass shootings at Kamianets-Podilskyi, Babi Yar and Rumbula
- Hinrich Lohse Hinrich Lohse Nazi Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein who, as Reichskommissar for Ostland in 1941–1944, ordered the ghettoisation and expropriation of Jews
- Walter Stahlecker Walter Stahlecker SS officer who led Einsatzgruppe A in 1941, instigating the Kaunas pogrom and directing the murder of Baltic Jews
- Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler A principal architect of the Nazi racial state
- Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff A senior Nazi SS coordinator who became a late-war negotiating envoy
- Heinz Reinefarth Heinz Reinefarth The SS general who commanded the repression of the Warsaw Uprising
- Edmund Veesenmayer Edmund Veesenmayer SS diplomat who, as Reich plenipotentiary in Hungary in 1944, pressed the Hungarian government to deport its Jews to Auschwitz
- Adolf Eichmann Adolf Eichmann SS officer who ran the deportation of Europe’s Jews to the death camps and in 1944 oversaw that of Hungary’s Jews to Auschwitz
- Klaus Barbie Klaus Barbie The Nazi Gestapo chief who made Lyon a center of terror