Hitler's Henchmen

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Franz Seldte – Leader of Der Stahlhelm under the Weimar Republic, he was Reich Minister for Labour from 1933 to 1945. Adolf Eichmann – SS- Obersturmbannführer. Official in charge of RSHA Referat IV B4, Juden (RSHA Sub-Department IV-B4, Jews); responsible for facilitation and transportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps. Fled to Argentina; captured there by Mossad operatives in 1960, tried in Israel and executed on 1 June 1962. Karl Weinrich – He was Gauleiter of Gau Electoral Hesse from 1928 to 1943 and an Obergruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Corp (NSKK).

Apart from being among Hitler’s closest associates, Joseph Goebbels was also intensely antisemitic and took advantage of his great oratory skills to air his antisemitic views through his public speeches. He joined the Nazi party in 1924 and became the district leader of Berlin just two years later in 1926. Goebbels used his position as Reich Minister of propaganda to favourably advocate the Nazi regime to the German people using catchy slogans and posters. He founded the newspaper Der Angriff which printed antisemitic and highly communistic content, becoming editor of the newspaper, Das Reich, later in 1940. Erich Raeder – Großadmiral, Commander-in-Chief of the Reichsmarine (1928–1935) and the Kriegsmarine (1935–1943). Obsessed with meeting Hitler, she traveled to Germany in 1934 and practically stalked him, finally meeting him in a Munich restaurant. Firmly established in his inner circle, Unity became a supporter of the Nazi regime. Hitler offered her an apartment in Munich, including one still being lived in by a Jewish couple. Apparently, Unity went to the apartment to size it up for refurbishment while the soon-to-be-dispossessed couple wept in the kitchen.Rudolf Diels – Protégé of Hermann Göring. First Chief of the Gestapo from 26 April 1933 to 20 April 1934. An SS- Oberführer, he was the Regierungspräsident (District President) of the Cologne district (1934–1936) and the Hanover district (1936–1942). They wielded power and enforced it: Goebbels, Goering, Himmler, Hess, Speer and Doenitz -- 6 lives lived in Germany, six very different careers, but each contributed in its own way to making Hitler's regime what it became. Artur Axmann – Chief of the Social Office of the Reich Youth Leadership. Leader of the Hitler Youth from 1940 to 1945. The modern sense of "obedient or unscrupulous follower" is first recorded 1839, probably based on a misunderstanding of the word as used by Scott, and is often used to describe an out-and-out adherent or partisan, ready to do anything. [ citation needed] Modern examples [ edit ]

Fritz Reinhardt – Head of the Nazi Party training School for Orators. An economics and tax specialist, he became State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Finance 1933 to 1945 and was an SA- Obergruppenführer. Viktor Lutze – SA officer; participant in the Night of the Long Knives; succeeded Ernst Röhm as Stabschef of the SA and Reichsleiter. He was Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Hannover from 1933 to 1941 and died in a car crash in 1943. Christian Wirth – SS- Obersturmführer. He was a senior German police and SS officer during the program to exterminate the Jewish people of occupied Poland during World War II, known as "Operation Reinhard". Wirth was a top aide of Odilo Globocnik, the overall director of " Operation Reinhard" (Aktion Reinhard or Einsatz Reinhard).Heinrich Himmler – Reichsführer-SS. As head of the SS, Chief of the German Police and later Reich Minister of the Interior, one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich. Reichsleiter, Commander-in-Chief of the Replacement Army and Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood. Expelled from offices by Hitler in late April 1945.

Hermann Höfle – Deputy to Odilo Globocnik in the Aktion Reinhard program. Played a key role in the "Harvest Festival" massacre of Jewish inmates of various labor camps in the Lublin district of Nazi-occupied Poland in early November 1943. Originally an Schutzstaffel (SS) adjutant. From August 1943 to 5 February 1944, he fought on the Eastern Front and in France until March 1944 when he again was appointed a personal adjutant. [41] Karl Jäger – SS officer; Einsatzkommando leader; author of the " Jäger Report" giving details of mass murders in Lithuania between July and December 1941. Franz Hofer – Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Tirol-Vorarlberg; Landeshauptmann of Tyrol; Supreme Commissioner of the Operation Zone of the Alpine Foothills. He was an advocate for creating an Alpine Fortress as a last stand redoubt for Nazi forces. He was an NSKK- Obergruppenführer.

2. Hermann Göring – Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe

Julius Lippert – Nazi activist and propaganda official who supervised the 1936 Summer Olympics in Germany. Rudolf Höß – (not to be confused with Rudolf Hess) – SS- Obersturmbannführer; Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp. Personal physician to Hitler and became a controversial figure for his unorthodox treatment methods. [46] Karl-Siegmund Litzmann – Head of the National Socialist Equestrian Corps and an SA- Obergruppenführer, he was the Generalkommissar of occupied Estonia from 1941 to 1944. Paul Körner – State Secretary to the Prussian State Ministry and to the Four Year Plan, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring, a member of the Central Planning Board and an SS- Obergruppenführer.