A henchman ( vernacular: " hencher") is a loyal employee, supporter, or aide to some powerful figure engaged in nefarious or criminal enterprises. Franz Xaver Dorsch – A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch, he was Fritz Todt's deputy as Chief Engineer in the Organization Todt (OT). Robert Ritter von Greim – Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall and last Luftwaffe Commander-in-Chief succeeding the deposed Hermann Göring in the last days of World War II. Chief of the RSHA (Reich Security Main Office), a main office of the SS, from January 1943 to Germany's surrender in May 1945. Franz Breithaupt, An SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS, he was Chief of the SS Court Main Office from 1942 to 1945, with exclusive jurisdiction for conducting investigations and trials of SS personnel.

Helmut Knochen – Senior commander of the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police) in Paris in Nazi-occupied France. Former SS officer Erich Priebke during the trial at Military Court for participating in the 1944 Ardeatine caves massacre in Rome, where 335 civilians, including 75 Jews, were killed in retaliation for an ambush on German soldiers. In Israel, Eichmann stood trial as a war criminal responsible for deporting Jews to death and concentration camps. The phrase henchman is also used as a pejorative for any sort of political mastermind or to present others as such. Ludolf von Alvensleben – commander of the SS and police in Crimea and commander of the Selbstschutz (self-defense) of the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia.But referred to in 1960 paperback Eichmann: the Man and His Crimes as Hitler's chauffeur, speculating whether Hitler knew he was a French Jew. How He Was Brought to Justice: He was employed by Volkswagen in São Paulo under his own name when he was arrested in 1967 after being tracked down by Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor and well-known Nazi hunter. A technocrat rather than military man, Hitler exploited the young architect's organisational talents and wealth of ideas for his own ends. Eichmann orchestrated the identification, assembly and transportation of European Jews to Auschwitz, Treblinka and other death camps in German-occupied Poland.

Hermann Fegelein – An SS- Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS, he was married to Eva Braun’s sister, Gretl. He knew how to exploit the advantage he gained from being long underestimated by Hitler's other aides. Stroop's most prominent role was the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, an action which cost the lives of over 50,000 people. Richard Glücks – SS- Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Waffen-SS, he was Concentration Camps Inspector (CCI) after Eicke, from 1939 to 1945, and committed suicide in May 1945.Awarded the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds and the German Cross in Gold, became the most highly decorated Waffen-SS member during World War II. Contemporary witnesses and his nephew Klaus Hessler speak for the first time on film about the largely unknown successor to Hitler. Werner Catel – Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Leipzig, considered an expert on the program of euthanasia for children and participated in the Aktion T4 program. Werner Lorenz – Waffen-SS general; leader of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, an organization charged with settling ethnic Germans in the Reich from other parts of Europe. He was found guilty after a four-month trial in Jerusalem and received the only death sentence ever issued by an Israeli court.

Ernst Boepple – State Secretary of the General Government in Poland, serving as deputy to Deputy Governor Josef Bühler. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Adolf Wagner – A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch, he was Gauleiter of Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria as well as Deputy Minister President and Interior Minister of Bavaria.

Gauleiter of Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick (1940–1945) and Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Hannover from 1941, he was also an SS- Obergruppenführer. Josef "Sepp" Dietrich – SS- Oberstgruppenführer in the Waffen-SS; original commander of Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH); later commander of the 6th SS Panzer Army. Wilhelm Mohnke – SS- Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; one of original 120 members of SS-Staff Guard ( Stabswache) "Berlin" formed in March 1933; later commanded 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH); appointed by Hitler in April 1945 as commander of the Berlin government district, nicknamed Die Zitadelle (The Citadel), including the Reich Chancellery, Führerbunker and Reichstag.

Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal holding photographs depicting former Gestapo chief Walter Rauff and a mobile gas-chamber van he created to execute Jews. Werner von Blomberg – Generalfeldmarschall, Defense Minister 1933–1935, Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces 1935–1938. Albert Hoffmann – The Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia-South from 1943 to 1945, at the same time he was Deputy to Goebbels in his capacity as Reich Inspector for Civil Air Warfare Measures and an SS- Gruppenführer.Paul Wegener – A regional administrator in occupied Norway from 1940 to 1942, he succeeded Karl Röver as Gauleiter of Gau Weser-Ems and Reichsstatthalter of both Oldenburg and Bremen from 1942 to 1945. Viktor Brack – Organizer of the Euthanasia program, Operation T4 and one of the men responsible for the gassing of Jews in the extermination camps. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and National Geographic Traveler.