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Friedrich Kritzinger

Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger was born April 24, 1890 in the little village of Grünfier, the son of a Lutheranian reverend. ...

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Hans Oster

Hans Oster, born in 1887, would evolve into one of Germany’s most controversial military. During the First World War he ...

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Hasso von Manteuffel

Hasso von Manteuffel was born January 14, 1897 in Potsdam. He descended from a noble Prussian family; one of his ...

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Heinrich Müller

From pilot to policeman Heinrich Müller was born April 28, 1900, the son of poor Catholic parents. After having finished school ...

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Ilse Koch

Ilse Koch's name has been synonymous with the horrors of the concentration camps since the American tribunal at Dachau, which ...

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Günther von Kluge

Hans Günther von Kluge was born October 30, 1882 in Posen in western Prussia (today Poznan, Poland), the son of ...

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Josef Mengele

Joseph Mengele (1911-1979) became notorious by the crimes he committed as a physician in concentration camp Auschwitz. He conducted ghastly ...

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Walter Model

During the Second World War, Walter Model was one of Adolf Hitler’s favourite generals. On more than one occasion he ...

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Wilhelm von Leeb

Wilhelm Joseph Franz von Leeb was born September 5,1876 in Landsberg am Lech, the son of a Bavarian army officer. ...

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Josef Kramer

Josef Kramer was born an only child in a middle-class family on November 10, 1906, in Munich, the cradle of ...

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ZZ Oude versie Model

Walter Model was born January 24th, 1891 in Genthin in the vicinity of Magdeburg. After graduating from officers’ school in ...

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Rudolf Lange

Martin Franz Erwin Rudolf Lange was born April 18, 1910 in Weißwasser in Prussian Silesia, located in the extreme ...

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Heinz Guderian

Heinz Guderian was born June 17th, 1888 in west Prussian Kulm, now Chelmno, Poland, the son of a career officer. ...

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Hermann Hoth

Hermann Hoth was born April 12, 1885, the son of a medical officer. In 1904, Hoth took on officer’s training ...

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Hans Fischböck

Dr. Hans Fischböck, born January 1895 in Geras, Niederdonau northeast of Vienna in Austria, has neither been sentenced in absentia ...

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