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Gerd von Rundstedt

Karl Rudolph Gerd von Rundstedt was born December 12th 1875 in Aschesleben in the Harz mountains near Magdeburg. He came ...

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Hanns Rauter

If one person could be associated with Nazi terror during the occupation of the Netherlands, it would be Hanns Rauter, ...

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Henning von Tresckow

Henning Hermann Robert Karl von Tresckow was born January 10, 1901 in Magdeburg (today in Sachsen-Anhalt), a descendant of Preussian ...

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Karl Plagge

As a commander of a Wehrmacht unit in Vilnius, which occupied itself with the repair and maintenance of army vehicles, ...

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Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach

Walther Kurt von Seydlitz-Kurzbach was born August 22nd, 1888 in Eppendorff-Hamburg. He descended from Prussian military nobility and was a ...

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Konrad Morgen

Introduction During the war, Konrad Morgen served in the SS as investigative judge. One of the cases he was involved in, ...

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Martin Luther

Martin Franz Julius Luther was born in Berlin on December 16, 1895. He dropped out of grammar school in ...

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Otto Skorzeny

Austrian Otto Skorzeny was born June 12, 1908 in Vienna to a middle class family that faced hardships during the ...

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Julius Madritsch

A tree with a nameplate in Jerusalem is one of the few tangible memories of Austrian Julius Madritsch. In 1964, ...

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Wilhelm Keitel

This weak and willing puppet handed the army, the instrument of aggression, to the party and directed it in its ...

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Bernhard Lichtenberg

Introduction Father Lichtenberg was no stranger to war. As early as WWI he had worked as an army chaplain in the ...

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Arthur Nebe

Introduction Arthur Nebe (1894-1945) was a police detective in Berlin and started his Nazi career in 1933 as a member of ...

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Arthur Liebehenschel

There are some among the camp commanders whose names are familiar to many such as Rudolph Höss and Joseph Kramer. ...

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Erich von Manstein

Erich von Lewinski was born November 24th, 1887 in Berlin, the tenth child of the Prussian general Eduard von Lewinski. ...

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Ernst Kaltenbrunner

The Devil's Advocate Ernst Kaltenbrunner’s life began on October 4th, 1903 in Reid im Immkreis (Austria), close to Hitler’s birthplace Braunau. ...

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