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Woldemar Klingelhöfer

Introduction From 15 September 1947 to 10 April 1948, 24 men stood trial in Nuremberg for the crimes they committed as ...

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Theodor Morell

Theodor Gilbert Morell was born July 22nd, 1886 in Trais-Münzenberg in Hessen. He was almost three years older than his ...

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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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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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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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