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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity
Affiliation
Position(set)
Citizenship(set)
Background
Era
People of the wider world
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Karl Jäger Karl Jäger
Commander of Einsatzkommando 3 who directed the murder of Lithuania’s Jews and tallied it in the Jäger Report
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1888–1959
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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
Military command · Nazi party and regime
1888–1971
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Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler
Dictator who built a racist war state
Political and party leadership · Nazi party and regime
1889–1945
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Alfred Rosenberg Alfred Rosenberg
Baltic German Nazi ideologue from Reval who served as Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories in 1941–1945
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1893–1946
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Hermann Göring Hermann Göring
A Luftwaffe chief who organized Nazi war and plunder
Political and party leadership · Nazi party and regime
1893–1946
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Joachim von Ribbentrop Joachim von Ribbentrop
Nazi Germany’s foreign minister, he played a key role in negotiating the German-Soviet nonaggression pact.
Diplomacy and international organization · Germany state institutions
1893–1946
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Rudolf Hess Rudolf Hess
Nazi Party leader and Hitler’s deputy, sentenced to life imprisonment at the Nuremberg trials.
Political and party leadership · Nazi party and regime
1894–1987
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Oskar Dirlewanger Oskar Dirlewanger
SS special-unit commander implicated in the Wola massacre
Military command · Nazi party and regime
1895–1945
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Friedrich Jeckeln Friedrich Jeckeln
Higher SS and Police Leader who directed the mass shootings at Kamianets-Podilskyi, Babi Yar and Rumbula
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1895–1946
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Hinrich Lohse Hinrich Lohse
Nazi Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein who, as Reichskommissar for Ostland in 1941–1944, ordered the ghettoisation and expropriation of Jews
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1896–1964
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Joseph Goebbels Joseph Goebbels
Nazi Party propaganda chief and minister who promoted antisemitism and dictatorship.
Ideology and propaganda · Germany state institutions
1897–1945
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Walter Stahlecker Walter Stahlecker
SS officer who led Einsatzgruppe A in 1941, instigating the Kaunas pogrom and directing the murder of Baltic Jews
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1900–1942
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Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler
A principal architect of the Nazi racial state
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1900–1945
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Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff
A senior Nazi SS coordinator who became a late-war negotiating envoy
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1900–1984
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Heinz Reinefarth Heinz Reinefarth
The SS general who commanded the repression of the Warsaw Uprising
Military command · Nazi party and regime
1903–1979
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Reinhard Heydrich Reinhard Heydrich
Nazi official who led SS intelligence and police agencies in implementing the Holocaust.
Security, intelligence and policing · Germany state institutions
1904–1942
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Edmund Veesenmayer Edmund Veesenmayer
SS diplomat who, as Reich plenipotentiary in Hungary in 1944, pressed the Hungarian government to deport its Jews to Auschwitz
Diplomacy and international organization · Germany state institutions
1904–1977
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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
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1906–1962
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Klaus Barbie Klaus Barbie
The Nazi Gestapo chief who made Lyon a center of terror
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1913–1991