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Arthur Axmann

Arthur Axmann was born February 18th, 1913 in Hagen, (Northern Rhineland -Westphalia) the youngest of five children of lawyer Alois ...

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Walther von Brauchitsch

Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch was born October 4th, 1881 in Berlin, son of General der Kavalerie Bernhard von ...

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Alois Brunner

Up to 2014, Alois Brunner was the most wanted Nazi war criminal. During World War Two, he was Adolf Eichmann’s ...

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Adolf Eichmann

Introduction During Hitler’s reign over the Third Reich, some 6 million Jews were killed. This massive process of extermination was carried ...

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Introduction On 5 April 1943 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested and held in the house of detention at the Wehrmacht in Berlin-Tegel. ...

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Cato Bontjes van Beek

Introduction "I only want to be one thing - a human being!" - Cato Bontjes van Beek Cato Bontjes van Beek, known ...

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Wilhelm Bittrich

Born on February 26th, 1894, Wilhelm Bittrich served during the First World War both in the Heer and in the ...

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Paul Blobel

Paul Blobel was the leader of Sonderkommando 4a, a part of Einstazgruppe C. The Einsatzgruppen were tasked with executing communists, ...

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Theodor Eicke

Lost youth and failed career Theodor Eicke was born October 17, 1892 in Hüdingen in the German federal state of Lotharingen. ...

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Wilhelm Canaris

Wilhelm Canaris is one of the most remarkable persons of the Third Reich. As head of the German military counterespionage ...

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Fedor von Bock

Fedor von Bock was born December 3rd 1880 in Kustrin (now Kostrzyn, Poland), and was the son of Moritz von ...

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Hans Bayer

Introduction It was a historical first: war correspondents of a Propaganda-kompanie (PK or propaganda company) of the Wehrmacht fighting alongside front ...

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Johannes Blaskowitz

Johannes Blaskowitz was born on July 10th 1883 in Paterswalde , East Prussia. After receiving his 7 year education ...

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Joseph Dietrich

Josef "Sepp" Dietrich was born May 8th, 1892 in Hawangen in Bavaria. He started his military career in 1911 in ...

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Karl Dönitz

Karl Dönitz was born September 16th, 1891 in Grünau, at the time a small town near Berlin and today a ...

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