Captain Ernst Roehm, a brillant soldier during WWI, was in
1918 a prominent leader of the District Command: he served as
liaison between the District Command and the German
industrialists who were directly funding the District Command to
help it fight communism. Captain Roehm and many other
members of the District Command were members of a mystical
organization known as the 'Thule Society' [Thulegesellschaft].
The Thule believed in the Aryan super race' and it preached the
coming of a German 'Messiah' who would lead Germany to glory
and a new Aryan civilization. The Thule group was financed by
some of the very same industrialists who supported the District
Command. The Thule was also directly supported by the German
High Command (GHC)."
He met Adolf Hitler in 1919 when Hitler was spying for the GHC
and he helped to launch Hitler's political career. Roehm
organized the storm troops (Sturmabteilung or SA), the militia of
the National Socialist (Nazi) party. The SA's role in the National
Socialist movement provoked conflict between Roehm and
Hitler, who wanted the SA to be an instrument of the Nazi party,
rather than Roehm's private army. Roehm was imprisoned briefly
for his participation in the abortive beer-hall putsch (1923). After
his release conflict with Hitler flared again, and Roehm
resigned (Apr., 1925) his party posts.
At the end of 1930, Hitler recalled him as SA commander. Within
a year, Roehm had developed a large army and was Hitler's
principal rival for party power. After Hitler became chancellor
(Jan., 1933), Roehm pressed unsuccessfully for SA control over
the regular army. Late in 1933 he was made minister without
portfolio. In June, 1934, he was coldly shot by SS men in Hitler's
blood purge, supposedly because he had been planning an
SA-led coup. He was 47.
According to Otto Strasser, Hitler never forgave Roehm for the
ridicule endured in 1922 when the Hitlerian Brown Shirts were
forbidden by Roehm to prevent a Communist Celebration of the
1st of May. A week earlier, Hitler, apprentice Nazi politician, had
sworn before 4000 militants that this Communist parade would
take place "over my dead body".
1918 a prominent leader of the District Command: he served as
liaison between the District Command and the German
industrialists who were directly funding the District Command to
help it fight communism. Captain Roehm and many other
members of the District Command were members of a mystical
organization known as the 'Thule Society' [Thulegesellschaft].
The Thule believed in the Aryan super race' and it preached the
coming of a German 'Messiah' who would lead Germany to glory
and a new Aryan civilization. The Thule group was financed by
some of the very same industrialists who supported the District
Command. The Thule was also directly supported by the German
High Command (GHC)."
He met Adolf Hitler in 1919 when Hitler was spying for the GHC
and he helped to launch Hitler's political career. Roehm
organized the storm troops (Sturmabteilung or SA), the militia of
the National Socialist (Nazi) party. The SA's role in the National
Socialist movement provoked conflict between Roehm and
Hitler, who wanted the SA to be an instrument of the Nazi party,
rather than Roehm's private army. Roehm was imprisoned briefly
for his participation in the abortive beer-hall putsch (1923). After
his release conflict with Hitler flared again, and Roehm
resigned (Apr., 1925) his party posts.
At the end of 1930, Hitler recalled him as SA commander. Within
a year, Roehm had developed a large army and was Hitler's
principal rival for party power. After Hitler became chancellor
(Jan., 1933), Roehm pressed unsuccessfully for SA control over
the regular army. Late in 1933 he was made minister without
portfolio. In June, 1934, he was coldly shot by SS men in Hitler's
blood purge, supposedly because he had been planning an
SA-led coup. He was 47.
According to Otto Strasser, Hitler never forgave Roehm for the
ridicule endured in 1922 when the Hitlerian Brown Shirts were
forbidden by Roehm to prevent a Communist Celebration of the
1st of May. A week earlier, Hitler, apprentice Nazi politician, had
sworn before 4000 militants that this Communist parade would
take place "over my dead body".
| 1887-1934 The rival of the boss |
| Chief of the storm troopers, whose ranks were largely composed of dispossessed members of the working class, were anticapitalist in tendency, and they hoped to gain from the "revolution" they had helped win via their fighting in the streets. Hitler was of the opinion that the storm troopers were a political force who, once the Nazis had gained power, were no longer needed. |
Son of a Rhenish petty bourgeois Catholic family, Paul Josef
Goebbels got a PhD in Literature (Philology) from Heidelberg
University in 1921. Exempt of service because of a clubfoot, he wrote
a romantic autobiographical novel "Michael", several plays and a lot
of lyric poems never of them ever published. He had several menial
jobs to support himself with the Dresdner Bank and at the Cologne
stock exchange. Influenced by pacifist and anarchist Richard Flisges,
he moved to völkish socialism and then met Hitler in 1922, "the
incarnation of my faith and ideas" while he was assistant to Gregor
Strasser. He joined the NSDAP and Hitler promoted him Gau of Berlin
where he was very successful in increasing party membership.
German Nazi propaganda minister (1933-1945) who exploited the
German media to launch propaganda against the Jews and other
groups. He killed his family and himself in his 48th year after
Germany's defeat.
On february, 24, 19421, Goebbels noted in his diary: "The Fuehrer
again voiced his determination to remorselessly cleanse Europe of
its Jews. There can be no sentimental feelings here. The Jews have
deserved the catastrophe that they are now experiencing. They shall
experience their own annihilation together with the destruction of our
enemies. We must accelerate this process with cold brutality; by
doing so we are doing an inestimable service to humanity."
Famous for being branded as a "master of propaganda" Goebbels was
more than that as testified French philosopher Jacques Ellul who
pointed out that Goebbels' postwar image is itself a propaganda
distortion :"There remains the problem of Goebbels' reputation. He
wore the title of Big Liar and yet he never stopped battling for
propaganda to be as accurate as possible. He preferred being cynical
and brutal to being caught in a lie. He used to say: "Everybody must
know what the situation is." He was always the first to announce
disastrous events or difficult situations, without hiding
anything. The result was a general belief between 1939 and 1942 that
German communiqués not only were more concise, clearer and less
cluttered, but were more truthful than Allied communiqués and,
furthermore, that the Germans published all the news two or three
days before the Allies. All this is so true that pinning the title of Big
Liar on Goebbels must be considered quite a propaganda success."
Goebbels got a PhD in Literature (Philology) from Heidelberg
University in 1921. Exempt of service because of a clubfoot, he wrote
a romantic autobiographical novel "Michael", several plays and a lot
of lyric poems never of them ever published. He had several menial
jobs to support himself with the Dresdner Bank and at the Cologne
stock exchange. Influenced by pacifist and anarchist Richard Flisges,
he moved to völkish socialism and then met Hitler in 1922, "the
incarnation of my faith and ideas" while he was assistant to Gregor
Strasser. He joined the NSDAP and Hitler promoted him Gau of Berlin
where he was very successful in increasing party membership.
German Nazi propaganda minister (1933-1945) who exploited the
German media to launch propaganda against the Jews and other
groups. He killed his family and himself in his 48th year after
Germany's defeat.
On february, 24, 19421, Goebbels noted in his diary: "The Fuehrer
again voiced his determination to remorselessly cleanse Europe of
its Jews. There can be no sentimental feelings here. The Jews have
deserved the catastrophe that they are now experiencing. They shall
experience their own annihilation together with the destruction of our
enemies. We must accelerate this process with cold brutality; by
doing so we are doing an inestimable service to humanity."
Famous for being branded as a "master of propaganda" Goebbels was
more than that as testified French philosopher Jacques Ellul who
pointed out that Goebbels' postwar image is itself a propaganda
distortion :"There remains the problem of Goebbels' reputation. He
wore the title of Big Liar and yet he never stopped battling for
propaganda to be as accurate as possible. He preferred being cynical
and brutal to being caught in a lie. He used to say: "Everybody must
know what the situation is." He was always the first to announce
disastrous events or difficult situations, without hiding
anything. The result was a general belief between 1939 and 1942 that
German communiqués not only were more concise, clearer and less
cluttered, but were more truthful than Allied communiqués and,
furthermore, that the Germans published all the news two or three
days before the Allies. All this is so true that pinning the title of Big
Liar on Goebbels must be considered quite a propaganda success."
| An immature sycophant who loved Hitler and had some genius for propaganda. Listen to his chilling voice here |
| Goebbels and his wife killed all their nice little kids except her son from a first marriage to Herr Quandt. |
Catholic, discharged in 1918 without having fought in WWI, .
German Nazi leader,second in power to Hitler, Heinrich
Himmler directed the Nazi elite forces, the Schutz Staffel (SS)
from 1929 to 1945, commanded the Third Reich's police and
secret police, the Gestapo (1936-1945) and coordinated the
operation of the concentration and extermination camps
(1941-1945). He was
called "Uncle Heini" by the SS men behind his back. Captured by
the British, he killed himself at age 45.
Of him, William Shirer, journalist in Germany before the war and
author of the "Rise and fall of the third Reich" said:"in this weird
Nazi world, there were a number of men of little competence and
intelligence and no character, veritable thugs who would be
given posts of key importance, with power over the life and
death of millions."
In his speech to the SS Group Leaders on 4th October 1943 in
Poznan, he declared:" ... What happens to the Russians, what
happens to the Czechs, is a matter of utter indifference to me.
Such good blood of our own kind as there may be among the
nations we shall acquire for ourselves, if necessary by
taking away the children and bringing them up among us.
Whether the other peoples live in comfort or perish of hunger
interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our
culture; apart from that it does not interest me. Whether or not
10,000 Russian women collapse from exhaustion while digging
a tank ditch interests me only in so far as the tank ditch is
completed for Germany. ....
Himmler once said to Otto Strasser that
"if the Fuhrer commands that I shoot
down my own mother I shall obey and
be proud that the Fuhrer has such
confidence in my obedience."
What a charming fellow! No wonder
that with such men nazi Germany spread
hell, havoc and misery all over Europe.
Here is an exemple of his terrifying handwriting.
Amateurs graphologists get to work !!
German Nazi leader,second in power to Hitler, Heinrich
Himmler directed the Nazi elite forces, the Schutz Staffel (SS)
from 1929 to 1945, commanded the Third Reich's police and
secret police, the Gestapo (1936-1945) and coordinated the
operation of the concentration and extermination camps
(1941-1945). He was
called "Uncle Heini" by the SS men behind his back. Captured by
the British, he killed himself at age 45.
Of him, William Shirer, journalist in Germany before the war and
author of the "Rise and fall of the third Reich" said:"in this weird
Nazi world, there were a number of men of little competence and
intelligence and no character, veritable thugs who would be
given posts of key importance, with power over the life and
death of millions."
In his speech to the SS Group Leaders on 4th October 1943 in
Poznan, he declared:" ... What happens to the Russians, what
happens to the Czechs, is a matter of utter indifference to me.
Such good blood of our own kind as there may be among the
nations we shall acquire for ourselves, if necessary by
taking away the children and bringing them up among us.
Whether the other peoples live in comfort or perish of hunger
interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our
culture; apart from that it does not interest me. Whether or not
10,000 Russian women collapse from exhaustion while digging
a tank ditch interests me only in so far as the tank ditch is
completed for Germany. ....
Himmler once said to Otto Strasser that
"if the Fuhrer commands that I shoot
down my own mother I shall obey and
be proud that the Fuhrer has such
confidence in my obedience."
What a charming fellow! No wonder
that with such men nazi Germany spread
hell, havoc and misery all over Europe.
Here is an exemple of his terrifying handwriting.
Amateurs graphologists get to work !!
| Himmler, the Super hero who did not fight during WW1... |
| ...but tried hard to become a Super Nazi |
German police official under the Nazi regime. Forced to
resign (1931) from the navy for misconduct, Reinhart
Heydrich joined the SS. He soon won Heinrich
Himmler's confidence and in 1934 was appointed
deputy chief of the Gestapo. He was deeply involved in
planning the extermination of the Jews. In 1941,
Heydrich was appointed protector of Bohemia and
Moravia.
Afflicted by a very high pitched voice and suspected of
being a quarter jewish, he tried to offset this with his
ruthless methods: his numerous executions earned
him the name the Hangman of Europe. In May, 1942, he
was shot by Czech patriots. Several days later the
entire male population of the village of Lidice was
murdered in retaliation.
Particularly cruel and bestial, he was given a lot fo
nicknames by his fellow members in the Party : "Die
blonde Bestie" ; "Die Hebbe" (“The Goat”)
because Heydrich had a highpitched voice and a very
peculiar way of laughing, which to some resembled the
bleating of a goat ; "Henker Heydrich" (“Hangman
Heydrich) ; "Oberverdachtsschöpfer" (“Chief of
Suspicions”). In one word, he was a complete nuts. A
lethal one.
resign (1931) from the navy for misconduct, Reinhart
Heydrich joined the SS. He soon won Heinrich
Himmler's confidence and in 1934 was appointed
deputy chief of the Gestapo. He was deeply involved in
planning the extermination of the Jews. In 1941,
Heydrich was appointed protector of Bohemia and
Moravia.
Afflicted by a very high pitched voice and suspected of
being a quarter jewish, he tried to offset this with his
ruthless methods: his numerous executions earned
him the name the Hangman of Europe. In May, 1942, he
was shot by Czech patriots. Several days later the
entire male population of the village of Lidice was
murdered in retaliation.
Particularly cruel and bestial, he was given a lot fo
nicknames by his fellow members in the Party : "Die
blonde Bestie" ; "Die Hebbe" (“The Goat”)
because Heydrich had a highpitched voice and a very
peculiar way of laughing, which to some resembled the
bleating of a goat ; "Henker Heydrich" (“Hangman
Heydrich) ; "Oberverdachtsschöpfer" (“Chief of
Suspicions”). In one word, he was a complete nuts. A
lethal one.
| 1904-42 The mad man of Bohemia |
Ex WWI pilot hero, member of the
squadron of the Red Baron which
he took over after the death of
von Richtoffen, Hermann
Goering was a bully, a cold blood
murderer who had no hesitations
to eliminate his opponents and the
foes of the regime. He was a very
ambitious man, although not very
capable ; he became a nazi
politician responsible for the
buildup of German air forces,
directed the German wartime
economy, and was named Hitler's
successor (1939). Morphinomane,
pompous and on the verge of
ridiculous, he was a mixture of
condottiere and sybarite.
He was once transferred to a
padded cell in a mental asylum in
Sweden after having tried to
strangle a nurse and knifed
another when he was in need of
morphine.
A blackmailer, he said once: "If the
Catholic Christian is convinced
that the Pope is infallible in all
religion and ethical matters,
so we National Socialists declare
with the same ardent conviction
that for us too the Fuhrer is
absolutely infallible in all political
and other matters." He hated
Jews and was in charge of the
anti-jews measures adopted as
soon as 1933.
Severely criticized for Germany's
military decline, he lost favor with
Hitler and was stripped of his
command (1943). After the
war, he was convicted and
sentenced to death at the
Nuremberg trials (1946): all his
utterances in the Nuremberg cell
were pervaded, in a final act of
illusory self-overvaluation, by the
idea that he would one day be
celebrated as a martyr. He was
glad he had been condemned to
death, he stated shortly before the
end, because the man
condemned to life imprisonment
had no chance of becoming a
martyr. 'In fifty or sixty years there
will be statues of Hermann Goring
all over Germany,' he remarked,
and added, 'Little statues, maybe,
but one in every German home.'
Göring, married to a Swedish
baroness, built a vast Prussian
estate, Karinhall, named after
her. To avoid it falling into
enemy hands, Göring had
Karinhall blown up on April 20,
1945, immediately before
attending Hitler's last birthday
party. He exulted in aristocratic
trappings, and after the Nazis
conquered much of Europe,
collected artworks looted from
numerous museums
baroness, built a vast Prussian
estate, Karinhall, named after
her. To avoid it falling into
enemy hands, Göring had
Karinhall blown up on April 20,
1945, immediately before
attending Hitler's last birthday
party. He exulted in aristocratic
trappings, and after the Nazis
conquered much of Europe,
collected artworks looted from
numerous museums
| The cynical and murderous satrap 1893-1946 |
| Goering loved to parade and show off in various military outfits and even used to dress up like a woman in amazing pink dresses |
| During his trial at Nuremberf, Goering was the most courageous of all indicted Nazis and even set the example for most of them. He was flamboyant and unrepentant. |
| He eventually manaded to escape the gallows and to commit suicide with the help of an American officer who befriended him |
He was so glad to have been sentenced to death that
he committed suicide in his cell with the voluntary
help of a GI named Lt. Jack "Tex" Wheelis. Wheelis
was an American officer on Burton Andrus' staff at
the courthouse/prison in Nuremberg. He befriended
Göring and the two struck up a reasonably close
relationship. Göring presented Wheelis with a gold
wristwatch which Wheelis proudly sported after the
trial and executions. Wheelis also obtained
items from Göring's luggage stored at the prison and
gave them to Göring totally against regulations.
Wheelis probably felt that his friend should have the
opportunity to avoid the shame of hanging and
provided the means of suicide from Göring's
luggage. The full account is related in "The Mystery
of Hermann Göring's Suicide" by the late Ben
Swearingen, without doubt the most comprehensive
study of the suicide.
Goering's IQ was 138. He wore several nicknames
given to him by different members of the NSDAP :
der Dicke" (“Fatso”) or "Hermann Meier". Meier (or
Maier, Meyer) is quite a common German last name.
In 1939, Göring promised in a public speech that no
enemy aircraft would reach Reich territory - else he
could be called "Meier."
he committed suicide in his cell with the voluntary
help of a GI named Lt. Jack "Tex" Wheelis. Wheelis
was an American officer on Burton Andrus' staff at
the courthouse/prison in Nuremberg. He befriended
Göring and the two struck up a reasonably close
relationship. Göring presented Wheelis with a gold
wristwatch which Wheelis proudly sported after the
trial and executions. Wheelis also obtained
items from Göring's luggage stored at the prison and
gave them to Göring totally against regulations.
Wheelis probably felt that his friend should have the
opportunity to avoid the shame of hanging and
provided the means of suicide from Göring's
luggage. The full account is related in "The Mystery
of Hermann Göring's Suicide" by the late Ben
Swearingen, without doubt the most comprehensive
study of the suicide.
Goering's IQ was 138. He wore several nicknames
given to him by different members of the NSDAP :
der Dicke" (“Fatso”) or "Hermann Meier". Meier (or
Maier, Meyer) is quite a common German last name.
In 1939, Göring promised in a public speech that no
enemy aircraft would reach Reich territory - else he
could be called "Meier."
| The "little rat" with a Ph.D and the big fat man with a lot of decorations from WW1 hated each other. Goebbels thought that Goering was a bag of wind and Goering that Goebbels was a little pest and a sucker |
Nazi official, member of the SS and Waffen-SS (with the rank of
SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer) and commander of the Auschwitz
concentration camp, Rudolf Hoess was born on November 25,
1900 in Baden-Baden into a strict Catholic family. After the end of
the war, Hoess became a fighter for the Freikorps in Upper
Silesia, in the Baltic area and in the Ruhr basin.
He joined the NSDAP in 1922, and was sentenced to ten years in
jail in 1923 after his involvement in the murder of Walter Kadow.
Hoess applied for SS membership in 1933 at a request from
Heinrich Himmler and was accepted in 1934; in 1938, he received
a promotion to SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer and became an adjutant in
the Sachsenhausen camp, and, after joining the Waffen-SS in
1939, finally overtook as the commander of Auschwitz in 1940.
During his interrogatory by the Allies in 1946, he confessed to the
2.5 million murders of Jews in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
On May 25, 1946, he was handed over to Poland and sentenced to
death by hanging on April 2, 1947, a sentence which was carried
out on April 16 in front of the entrance of the crematorium of the
Auschwitz concentration camp. He never showed any remorse or
sense of guilt for what he did.
SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer) and commander of the Auschwitz
concentration camp, Rudolf Hoess was born on November 25,
1900 in Baden-Baden into a strict Catholic family. After the end of
the war, Hoess became a fighter for the Freikorps in Upper
Silesia, in the Baltic area and in the Ruhr basin.
He joined the NSDAP in 1922, and was sentenced to ten years in
jail in 1923 after his involvement in the murder of Walter Kadow.
Hoess applied for SS membership in 1933 at a request from
Heinrich Himmler and was accepted in 1934; in 1938, he received
a promotion to SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer and became an adjutant in
the Sachsenhausen camp, and, after joining the Waffen-SS in
1939, finally overtook as the commander of Auschwitz in 1940.
During his interrogatory by the Allies in 1946, he confessed to the
2.5 million murders of Jews in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
On May 25, 1946, he was handed over to Poland and sentenced to
death by hanging on April 2, 1947, a sentence which was carried
out on April 16 in front of the entrance of the crematorium of the
Auschwitz concentration camp. He never showed any remorse or
sense of guilt for what he did.
| Rudolf Hoess 1904-42 The mass cleanser |
When Hitler became chancellor (1933), he
named Rudolf Hess as deputy führer and
later (1939) as second in succession to the
Nazi leadership. He was known for his dress-
up attire as Black Bertha in the gay bars of
pre-war Berlin and Goebbels and Goring
surnamed him Fraulein Hess in mockery of
his utter devotion and fanatical loyalty to
Hitler. In May 1941 Hess was captured in
Scotland, where he had flown apparently in a
bid to start peace talks with Britain. At the
Nuremburg trials (1946) he was sentenced to
life imprisonment in Spandau Prison, Berlin,
for war crimes that he had never committed.
The poor man eventually took his life in jail in
a German prison aged 91. His IQ was 120
(tested at Nuremberg). He was one of the
scapegoats of the post-war era and the Allies
failed to give him a fair trial.
Hess who was allegged to be an homosexual
was given within the Party many nicknames :
he was thus called “Hesserl” by Hitler,
“Fräulein Hess” by Otto Strasser, “Fräulein
Anna” by Ernst Hanfstaengl, “Fräulein Gusti”
by Helen Hanfstaengl, “Black Paula” by Ernst
Röhm, “Black Grete” by Bella Fromm and
“Black Emma” by Erich Ebermayer.
named Rudolf Hess as deputy führer and
later (1939) as second in succession to the
Nazi leadership. He was known for his dress-
up attire as Black Bertha in the gay bars of
pre-war Berlin and Goebbels and Goring
surnamed him Fraulein Hess in mockery of
his utter devotion and fanatical loyalty to
Hitler. In May 1941 Hess was captured in
Scotland, where he had flown apparently in a
bid to start peace talks with Britain. At the
Nuremburg trials (1946) he was sentenced to
life imprisonment in Spandau Prison, Berlin,
for war crimes that he had never committed.
The poor man eventually took his life in jail in
a German prison aged 91. His IQ was 120
(tested at Nuremberg). He was one of the
scapegoats of the post-war era and the Allies
failed to give him a fair trial.
Hess who was allegged to be an homosexual
was given within the Party many nicknames :
he was thus called “Hesserl” by Hitler,
“Fräulein Hess” by Otto Strasser, “Fräulein
Anna” by Ernst Hanfstaengl, “Fräulein Gusti”
by Helen Hanfstaengl, “Black Paula” by Ernst
Röhm, “Black Grete” by Bella Fromm and
“Black Emma” by Erich Ebermayer.
| 1897-1987 The idolatrous Goofy. Hitler granted Hess' wife a pension |
| Rosenberg (January 12, 1893 – October 16, 1946) was born to Baltic German parents in Reval (Tallinn) Estonia, then part of the Russian Empire. He studied architecture at the Riga Technical Institute and engineering at Moscow University, completing his Ph.D. studies in 1917. Buildings that he designed in this period still stand in the central part of Tallinn. During the Russian Revolution of 1917, he supported the counter- revolutionaries and, following their failure, Rosenberg emigrated to Germany in 1918 |
Alfred Rosenberg was the Nazi party
ideologist, Baltic state born, expounded
Nazi doctrine in a confused and tortuously
written hodge-podge of racial abracadabra
The Myth of the 20th Century (1930) that he
considered as the most important
philosophical work of the time. He is
considered the main author of key Nazi
ideological tenets, including its racial
theory, Lebensraum, abolition of the
Versailles Treaty, and persecution of the
Jews and Christian churches. Always been
highly considered by Hitler but hated by
every member of the NSDAP : Goering
called his works "a junk", Goebbels
"philosophical belching" and dubbed him
the "reich philosopher while Hitler said it
was "too obscure to work through".
Nevertheless, he was useful to the "cause".
Rosenberg was captured by Allied troops at
the end of the war. His insolence, his
insignificance and his arrogance became
obvious when he was tried at Nuremberg
where he more or less admitted the
charges against him : he was found guilty
on all counts and was sentenced to death.
He was executed with other guilty
co-defendants at Nuremberg on the
morning of October 16, 1946, aged 53. His
IQ was 127.
ideologist, Baltic state born, expounded
Nazi doctrine in a confused and tortuously
written hodge-podge of racial abracadabra
The Myth of the 20th Century (1930) that he
considered as the most important
philosophical work of the time. He is
considered the main author of key Nazi
ideological tenets, including its racial
theory, Lebensraum, abolition of the
Versailles Treaty, and persecution of the
Jews and Christian churches. Always been
highly considered by Hitler but hated by
every member of the NSDAP : Goering
called his works "a junk", Goebbels
"philosophical belching" and dubbed him
the "reich philosopher while Hitler said it
was "too obscure to work through".
Nevertheless, he was useful to the "cause".
Rosenberg was captured by Allied troops at
the end of the war. His insolence, his
insignificance and his arrogance became
obvious when he was tried at Nuremberg
where he more or less admitted the
charges against him : he was found guilty
on all counts and was sentenced to death.
He was executed with other guilty
co-defendants at Nuremberg on the
morning of October 16, 1946, aged 53. His
IQ was 127.
| A very ambitious man and an opportunist who did anything to please his Fuehrer and the Allies at the end of the war, Albert Speer trained as an architect and joined the Nazi party in 1931 as member #474,481. He became one of Hitler's personal architect (1934-1945) and minister of armaments (1942-1945) after the death of Fritz Todt. He was Hitler's favorite nazi and stopped to nothing to please his Fuehrer. During Nuremberg Trial, in spite of a sentence to 20 years imprisonement, he was considered as the only "decent nazi", a brand which was largely unjustified and was recently debunked. He was actually a very ambitious and cunning man, served Hitler well until he was convinced that the IIIrd Reich was doomed in 1945 and went to great length to prove to the Nuremberg Tribunal that he "betrayed" Hitler more than 60 times during the last months of the war. He died in his bed aged 76 in 1981 after having published an interesting book "Inside the Third Reich" which is an apology of his "bad behavior" during the Nazi era. His IQ was 128. |
| 1904-81 The Führer closest aide Speer's first major commission as a Party member (card # 474481) came in 1932 when Karl Hanke (whose villa Speer previously worked on) recommended him to Goebbels to help renovate the new District Headquarters in Berlin, and, later, to renovate Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry. Goebbels was impressed with his work and recommended him to Hitler, who assigned him to help Paul Troost renovate the Chancellery in Berlin. Speer proved to be a most able organizer and was rewarded first as Reichbauinspektor (RBI) then in 1943 became Armaments Minister. |
Ernst Kaltenbrunner joined the Nazi party and
the SS in Austria in 1932. He was the Gauredner
(district speaker) and Rechtsberater (legal consultant) of the
SS division VIII. In mid-1935 Kaltenbrunner was the leader of
the Austrian SS. He assisted in the Anschluss and Hitler
promoted him to SS Brigadefuhrer on the day the Anschluss
was completed. On September 11 1938 he was promoted to
the rank of SS Gruppenfuhrer. He was also a member of the
Reichstag from 1938.
In April 1941 was promoted to Major General of the Police. On
January 30 1943, Kaltenbrunner was appointed Chief of the
RSHA, comprising both the Security Police (SIPO) and the SD,
replacing Reinhard Heydrich, who had been assassinated in
June 1942. Kaltenbrunner held this position until the end of the
war. Toward the end of the war, Kaltenbrunner's power
increased greatly, especially after the attack on Hitler of July
20 1944. He gained direct access to Hitler. It was said that even
Heinrich Himmler feared him.
On December 9 1944 he was awarded the Knight's Cross. By
then his full title was SS Obergruppenfuhrer and General of the
Police Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Chief of the Security Police and
the SD. At Nuremberg, he denied every charge against him in
spite of all evidence. Probably the most hated Nazi among the
defendants, he was found guilty of war-crimes and crimes
against humanity and sentenced to death. He was executed at
around 1.40 a.m. on October 16, 1946; his last words were
"Germany, good luck." His IQ was 113.
For a complete biography of Kaltenbrunner, please read this
page.
the SS in Austria in 1932. He was the Gauredner
(district speaker) and Rechtsberater (legal consultant) of the
SS division VIII. In mid-1935 Kaltenbrunner was the leader of
the Austrian SS. He assisted in the Anschluss and Hitler
promoted him to SS Brigadefuhrer on the day the Anschluss
was completed. On September 11 1938 he was promoted to
the rank of SS Gruppenfuhrer. He was also a member of the
Reichstag from 1938.
In April 1941 was promoted to Major General of the Police. On
January 30 1943, Kaltenbrunner was appointed Chief of the
RSHA, comprising both the Security Police (SIPO) and the SD,
replacing Reinhard Heydrich, who had been assassinated in
June 1942. Kaltenbrunner held this position until the end of the
war. Toward the end of the war, Kaltenbrunner's power
increased greatly, especially after the attack on Hitler of July
20 1944. He gained direct access to Hitler. It was said that even
Heinrich Himmler feared him.
On December 9 1944 he was awarded the Knight's Cross. By
then his full title was SS Obergruppenfuhrer and General of the
Police Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Chief of the Security Police and
the SD. At Nuremberg, he denied every charge against him in
spite of all evidence. Probably the most hated Nazi among the
defendants, he was found guilty of war-crimes and crimes
against humanity and sentenced to death. He was executed at
around 1.40 a.m. on October 16, 1946; his last words were
"Germany, good luck." His IQ was 113.
For a complete biography of Kaltenbrunner, please read this
page.
Hitler's private Secretary after the emprisonement in England of Rudolf Hess,
Martin Bormann was the 'Brown Eminence', mute and dangerous in the
background. Holding the threads in his hands and also the thunderbolts which,
during Hitler's uncontrolled outbursts in the final phase, Bormann was able to
direct adroitly towards those whom he felt to be his rivals. In one sense he
eventually became more powerful than Hitler himself, and he was a classic
embodiment of the dictator in the ante-chamber.
"I know,' said once Hitler, dismissing occasional remonstrations from those
around him, 'that Bormann is brutal. But there is sense in everything he does and I
can absolutely rely on my orders being carried out by Bormann immediately and in
spite of all obstacles."
In a memorandum of 19th August 1942 he wrote:" The Slavs are to work for us. In
so far as we do not need them, they may die. Slav fertility is undesirable. They may
possess contraceptives or abort, the more the better. Education is dangerous.
We shall leave them religion as a means of diversion. They will receive only the
absolutely necessary provisions. We are the masters, we come first."
Borman was killed on May 1, 1945 while trying to escape from Soviet
troops advance. He was last seen jumping on a German tank that was blown off by
an anti-tank grenade. His alleged body was exhumed in 1976 from a street close to
Berlin's Weidendamm Bridge near Lehrte Station. A DNS test in 1998 revealed it
was Bormann's. It was cremated and dispersed in the Baltic sea at the German's
taxpayer's expenses. Nazis hunters continue to chase a ghost dead since long.
| 1900-? Herr Gestapo In 1963 his tomb was opened and found empty. There have been many conspiracy theories about his post-war life and career. Many suspect that, if he did not kill himself or was killed, Müller worked for the Soviet Union as a spy during the Cold War. |
| The sinister shadow of the Gestapo |
German Nazi official who as head of the Gestapo's Jewish section (1939-1945), Adolf Eichmann was chiefly responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews during World War II. After the war he fled to South America, was captured by the Israeli secret service (1960), and was tried and executed in Israel. He was probably one of the most disgusting personnage of the IIIrd Reich. |
Otto Adolf Eichmann (known as Adolf Eichmann; March 19, 1906 – May 31, 1962) was a high-ranking Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lt. Colonel). Due to his organisational talents and ideological reliability, he was tasked by Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich to facilitate and manage the logistics of mass deportation to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe. He was captured by Israeli Mossad agents in Argentina, indicted by Israeli court on 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was convicted and executed by hanging. Good for him. |
Dr. Hans Frank was a senior Nazi official in Nazi Germany and Governor-General of
Poland during World War II. Frank was born in Karlsruhe and joined the German army
in 1917. He served in the Freikorps and joined the German Labour Party in 1919,
becoming a member of NSDAP in 1927. He studied law, passing the final state
examination in 1926, and rose to become the personal legal advisor to Hitler.He was
elected to the Reichstag in 1930 and in 1933 he was made Minister of Justice for
Bavaria.
From October 26, 1939 following the division of Poland, Frank was the
Governor-General of the Occupied Polish Territories
(Generalgouverneur fur die besetzten polnischen Gebiete).
He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against
humanity and on October 1, 1946 he was sentenced to
death by hanging. His IQ was 130.
In december 1941, Hans declared: " Currently there are in the Government
Generalship approximately 2 1/2 million, and together with those who are kith and kin
and connected in all kinds of ways, we now have 3 1/2 million Jews. We cannot shoot
these 3 1/2 million Jews, nor can we poison them, yet we will have to take measures
which will somehow lead to the goal of annihilation, and that will be done in
connection with the great measures which are to be discussed together with the
Reich.
In 1942 the Germans began the systematic extermination of the Jewish population.
The General Government was the location of four of the six extermination camps in
which the most extreme measures of the Holocaust, the genocide by gassing of
undesired "races," chiefly millions of Jews from Poland and other countries, was
carried out between 1942 and 1944.
Poland during World War II. Frank was born in Karlsruhe and joined the German army
in 1917. He served in the Freikorps and joined the German Labour Party in 1919,
becoming a member of NSDAP in 1927. He studied law, passing the final state
examination in 1926, and rose to become the personal legal advisor to Hitler.He was
elected to the Reichstag in 1930 and in 1933 he was made Minister of Justice for
Bavaria.
From October 26, 1939 following the division of Poland, Frank was the
Governor-General of the Occupied Polish Territories
(Generalgouverneur fur die besetzten polnischen Gebiete).
He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against
humanity and on October 1, 1946 he was sentenced to
death by hanging. His IQ was 130.
In december 1941, Hans declared: " Currently there are in the Government
Generalship approximately 2 1/2 million, and together with those who are kith and kin
and connected in all kinds of ways, we now have 3 1/2 million Jews. We cannot shoot
these 3 1/2 million Jews, nor can we poison them, yet we will have to take measures
which will somehow lead to the goal of annihilation, and that will be done in
connection with the great measures which are to be discussed together with the
Reich.
In 1942 the Germans began the systematic extermination of the Jewish population.
The General Government was the location of four of the six extermination camps in
which the most extreme measures of the Holocaust, the genocide by gassing of
undesired "races," chiefly millions of Jews from Poland and other countries, was
carried out between 1942 and 1944.
An early party member, originally a
schoolteacher and a notorious
pornograph, Julius Streicher
aired his sadistic and anti-Semitic
mania in his periodical, "Der
Sturmer. Streicher was also the
host of the yearly Nazi party
congresses at Nuremberg and,
after 1933, was gauleiter (district
leader) of Franconia. He was
convicted at the Nuremberg war
crimes trial and was hanged aged
61 in october 1946. His IQ was 106.
| 1885-46 The pornographic editor of little mental capacity. At the end of the wr he grew a beard and donned an artist look to try to escape being arrested by the Allies |
Robert Ley, the son of poor peasants, was
born in Niederbreidenbach, on 15th
February, 1890. He was a military aviator
during the First World War but was shot
down over France in 1917 and spent over
two years as a prisoner of war. After the war
Ley worked as a chemist but was sacked
because of his serious drink
problem. He joined the National Socialist
German Workers Party (NSDAP) in 1925 and
later that year became Gauleiter for
Rhineland South. In 1932 Ley replaced the
murdered Gregor Strasser as leader of the
Reich Organization. He also began
publishing the Nazi journal Westdeutscher
Beobachter.
On 2nd May, 1933, Adolf Hitler ordered the
arrest of Germany's trade union leaders. He
then gave Ley the task of forming the
German Labour Front (DAF) to
replace the now outlawed trade unions. Ley
confiscated union funds and used the money
to fund the Strength through Joy programme.
After the war Ley was charged with war
crimes. While awaiting trial in Nuremberg Ley
wrote a statement denouncing Anti-Semitism
and then hanged himself in his cell on 25th
October, 1945. .
| Robert Ley had a beautiful wife Inge who was in love with Hitler and committed suicide after post-natal sickness and depression during the war |
Gregor Strasser was an early leader of the German
National Socialist German Workers' Party
(Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) or
Nazi Party. Born to a Catholic family in Geisenfeld, (Upper
Bavaria), he was educated and employed as a pharmacist.
When World War I broke out he served his country as a First
Lieutenant and won the Iron Cross for bravery.After the war,
Strasser was a member of the Freikorps, until he joined the
NSDAP and became a leading member of the Sturm
Abteilung (SA) He took part in the Beer Hall Putsch of
November 8 and 9, 1923 and was imprisoned. In 1925 he
was appointed the party leader in northern Germany where
he created the Stormtroopers or SA. Many historians
consider Gregor Strasser as having been advocate of
social-democracy and opponent of Nationalism within the
party.
Strasser was a committed socialist and social radical as was
Ernst Röhm. Strasser saw a need to redistribute wealth in
Germany and like Röhm, opposed Hitler's policy of catering
to the country's major industrialists such as Emil Kirdorf. His
outspoken views led Kirdorf and others to reject the
party for a time, causing a deep rift with Hitler and other
leaders of the party.
In 1932 he was placed in charge of party organization. In
December 1932, Paul von Hindenburg invited Kurt von
Schleicher to become chancellor and invited Strasser to be
his deputy. Schleicher hoped that in bringing Strasser
in he might pull with him the entire left wing of the NSDAP.
Hitler and Hermann Göring challenged the move claiming it
was an attempt to create a split in the NSDAP. A meeting of
high-ranking Nazi officials was held at which all present
repudiated Strasser and declared themselves "ready to
continue the fight at the sides of Hitler".
In order to maintain party unity Strasser resigned all party
positions and found work in a large chemical firm. On June
30, 1934, the date known as "The Night of the Long Knives",
Strasser was attacked in his home while having lunch by
Nazi Party elements loyal to Hitler, and was taken to prison,
where he was later shot.
National Socialist German Workers' Party
(Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) or
Nazi Party. Born to a Catholic family in Geisenfeld, (Upper
Bavaria), he was educated and employed as a pharmacist.
When World War I broke out he served his country as a First
Lieutenant and won the Iron Cross for bravery.After the war,
Strasser was a member of the Freikorps, until he joined the
NSDAP and became a leading member of the Sturm
Abteilung (SA) He took part in the Beer Hall Putsch of
November 8 and 9, 1923 and was imprisoned. In 1925 he
was appointed the party leader in northern Germany where
he created the Stormtroopers or SA. Many historians
consider Gregor Strasser as having been advocate of
social-democracy and opponent of Nationalism within the
party.
Strasser was a committed socialist and social radical as was
Ernst Röhm. Strasser saw a need to redistribute wealth in
Germany and like Röhm, opposed Hitler's policy of catering
to the country's major industrialists such as Emil Kirdorf. His
outspoken views led Kirdorf and others to reject the
party for a time, causing a deep rift with Hitler and other
leaders of the party.
In 1932 he was placed in charge of party organization. In
December 1932, Paul von Hindenburg invited Kurt von
Schleicher to become chancellor and invited Strasser to be
his deputy. Schleicher hoped that in bringing Strasser
in he might pull with him the entire left wing of the NSDAP.
Hitler and Hermann Göring challenged the move claiming it
was an attempt to create a split in the NSDAP. A meeting of
high-ranking Nazi officials was held at which all present
repudiated Strasser and declared themselves "ready to
continue the fight at the sides of Hitler".
In order to maintain party unity Strasser resigned all party
positions and found work in a large chemical firm. On June
30, 1934, the date known as "The Night of the Long Knives",
Strasser was attacked in his home while having lunch by
Nazi Party elements loyal to Hitler, and was taken to prison,
where he was later shot.
| After the official refoundation of the NSDAP by Adolf Hitler in 1925, Strasser became the first Gauleiter of Lower Bavaria/Upper Palatinate and he reorganized the whole NSDAP structure, both in its regional formation and its vertical management hierarchy. The Nazi Party became a strictly centralist organization with the party's own control machinery and high propaganda capability. The personal rivalry with Adolf Hitler worsened dramatically when Reichskanzler Kurt von Schleicher offered Gregor Strasser the vice-chancellorship and the office of the Prussian Prime Minister in 1932. The plan failed but Hitler felt he had been "attacked from behind" and made a terrible scene to Stasser who concluded:"It is bad enough the man is a Bohemnian but if he's also an hysteric as well, then we are in for disaster." Hitler never forgave Strasser and put him on the list of the Blood Purge. He was savagely murdured during the Nite of the Long Knives in 1934. According to Ernst Hanfstangel, Hitler foreign press officer, Strasser was half-jewish. |
HITLER AND HIS HENCHMEN
| 1897-1945 The propagandist rat |
| (October 4, 1903 – October 16, 1946) was the son of a lawyer. Educated at the State Realgymnasium in Linz and Graz University. He obtained a law degree in 1926. He worked as a lawyer briefly in Linz and Salzburg and from 1928 in Linz. He was a huge man, standing just over 6'6 tall. |
| 1906-62 The bureaucratic Exterminator Born in Wegeleben (near Halberstadt) in the German Empire, the son of post office employee Theodor Bormann and his wife Louise Gobler. Bormann dropped out of school to work on a farm in Mecklenburg. After serving briefly with an artillery regiment at the end of World War I, Bormann joined the Freikorps in Mecklenburg |
| Heinrich Müller (left) was the head of Nazi Germany's RSHA's Amt IV and led the Gestapo from 1939 until his mysterious disappearance at the close of the World War II, on the 29th of April, 1945. A protégé of Reinhard Heydrich, Muller's rise in the ranks of the SS only took off after the Night of the Long Knives on June 30, 1934. As head of the Gestapo, Muller answered only to Heydrich himself, and after Heydrich's death, to Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Heinrich Muller was an active participant in most of the very worst crimes committed by the Nazi regime. One of his direct subordinates was Adolf Eichmann who was one of the main organizers of the Holocaust. Heinrich had been assumed dead in 1945, but in 1963 his tomb was opened and found empty. There have been many conspiracy theories about his post-war life and career. |
| 1900-46 The eraser of Poland |
| The pink svastika means that the person was an homosexual or suspected to be or derided as being gay |
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| At the end of the war, Ley tried to escape and changed his look but he was arrested by the Allies, sent to jail where he wrote a political testament protesting his innocence and claiming he did not understand what was done to him. He contested the legality of the trial with some good legal arguments. |
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