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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 ...

By Fernando Lynch | 19 January, 2025
Germany - K till O
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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 ...

By Arnold Palthe | 19 January, 2025
Germany - K till O
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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 ...

By Arnold Palthe | 19 January, 2025
Germany - K till O
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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 ...

By Lynette Croxford | 19 January, 2025
Germany - K till O
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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. ...

By Arnold Palthe | 19 January, 2025
Germany - K till O
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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 ...

By Sophie Louwers | 19 January, 2025
Germany - K till O
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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 ...

By Arnold Palthe | 19 January, 2025
Germany - K till O
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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 ...

By Arnold Palthe | 19 January, 2025
Germany - K till O
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Gustav Knittel

Introduction Gustav Knittel was a convicted war criminal and SS-Sturmbannfüher in the 1. SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler (LSSHA). Youth Gustav Knittel was born ...

By Arnold Palthe | 19 January, 2025
Germany - K till O
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Albert Kesselring

Albert Kesselring was born November 30, 1885 in Marktsteft in the region of Unterfranken in Bavaria. He was the son ...

By Arnold Palthe | 19 January, 2025
Germany - K till O