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Pavel Bermondt-Avalov Павел Бермондт-Авалов Commander of the West Russian Volunteer Army who led German Freikorps against Riga Military command · Russian White movement 1877–1973
Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini The dictator who turned fascism into state power Political and party leadership · National Fascist Party (PNF) 1883–1945
Gyula Ostenburg-Moravek Ostenburg-Moravek Gyula Gendarmerie officer whose detachment murdered two Népszava journalists and who joined King Charles’s 1921 return attempt Security, intelligence and policing · Hungary 1884–1944
Gyula Gömbös Gömbös Gyula Right-radical officer who organised the Szeged National Army and as prime minister in 1932–1936 steered Hungary towards Italy and Germany Government and administration · Hungary 1886–1936
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
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
Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler Dictator who built a racist war state Political and party leadership · Nazi party and regime 1889–1945
Ferenc Feketehalmy-Czeydner Feketehalmy-Czeydner Ferenc Hungarian general who directed the Novi Sad massacre, fled to Germany after his conviction and joined the SS Military command · Hungary 1890–1946
Béla Imrédy Imrédy Béla Prime minister who swung Hungary towards Germany and drafted the Second Jewish Law, then fell over his own Jewish ancestry Government and administration · Hungary 1891–1946
Engelbert Dollfuss Engelbert Dollfuß Austrian chancellor who shut down parliament, built the Fatherland Front dictatorship and was assassinated in a Nazi coup in 1934 Government and administration · Austria state institutions 1892–1934
Radola Gajda Radola Gajda A legion commander who carried battlefield success into White politics Military command · Czechoslovakia 1892–1948
Francisco Franco Francisco Franco The general who turned the rising into victory and ruled Spain for thirty-six years as Caudillo Military command · Spain state institutions 1892–1975
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
Hermann Göring Hermann Göring A Luftwaffe chief who organized Nazi war and plunder Political and party leadership · Nazi party and regime 1893–1946
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
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
Oskar Dirlewanger Oskar Dirlewanger SS special-unit commander implicated in the Wola massacre Military command · Nazi party and regime 1895–1945
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
László Endre Endre László Interior Ministry state secretary who in 1944 ran the ghettoisation and deportation of Hungary’s Jews with László Baky Government and administration · Hungary 1895–1946
Dino Grandi Dino Grandi A Fascist power broker who helped bring down Mussolini Diplomacy and international organization · Italy state institutions 1895–1988
Andor Jaross Jaross Andor Hungarian minority leader in Czechoslovakia who, as interior minister in Sztójay’s cabinet in 1944, organised the deportation of Jews Government and administration · Hungary 1896–1946
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
Joseph Goebbels Joseph Goebbels Nazi Party propaganda chief and minister who promoted antisemitism and dictatorship. Ideology and propaganda · Germany state institutions 1897–1945
Ferenc Szálasi Szálasi Ferenc Arrow Cross leader installed by Germany as 'Leader of the Nation' in 1944 Political and party leadership · Hungary 1897–1946
Jacques Doriot Jacques Doriot The Saint-Denis Communist who demanded the popular front first and ended a fascist Political and party leadership · French Communist Party (PCF) 1898–1945
László Baky Baky László Gendarmerie officer turned National Socialist who as state secretary for the interior in 1944 ran the deportation of Jews with László Endre Government and administration · Hungary 1898–1946
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
Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler A principal architect of the Nazi racial state Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime 1900–1945
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
Hjalmar Mäe Hjalmar Mäe Estonian Vaps politician who headed the collaborationist Estonian Self-Administration under German occupation in 1941–1944 Government and administration 1901–1978
Galeazzo Ciano Galeazzo Ciano A Fascist diplomat who became a witness to the regime's internal collapse Diplomacy and international organization · Italy state institutions 1903–1944
Heinz Reinefarth Heinz Reinefarth The SS general who commanded the repression of the Warsaw Uprising Military command · Nazi party and regime 1903–1979
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
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
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
Otto Skorzeny Otto Skorzeny A Nazi commando leader magnified by propaganda Military command · Nazi party and regime 1908–1975
Viktors Arājs Viktors Arājs Latvian former policeman whose Arajs Kommando, under the SS Security Service, murdered about half of Latvia’s Jews Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime 1910–1988
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