Hitler's Henchmen

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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). Joachim Peiper – SS- Obersturmbannführer. He served as Heinrich Himmler’s adjutant and, as a member of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, in combat commands on both the Eastern and Western fronts. He was convicted of war crimes committed in the Malmedy massacre. His Path to South America: After World War II, Mengele spent three-plus years in hiding in Germany. In 1949, with the help of a Catholic clergy member, the “Angel of Death” fled via Italy to Argentina where he owned a mechanical equipment shop and remarried under his own name in Uruguay in 1958. The doctor lived in various Buenos Aires suburbs, but after hearing of Eichmann’s capture, went underground, first in Paraguay, then in Brazil.

Hermann Göring – Hitler's designated successor (until expelled from office by Hitler in late April 1945); President of the Reichstag; Minister President and Interior Minister of Prussia; Reich Aviation Minister; Luftwaffe Commander-in-Chief; Delegate for the Four Year Plan; and Chairman of the Council of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich. As Reichsmarschall, the highest-ranking military officer in the Third Reich; sole holder of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross; sentenced to death by the Nuremberg Tribunal but committed suicide hours before his scheduled hanging; World War I veteran as ace fighter pilot; participated in the Beer Hall Putsch; founder of the Gestapo. Initially published in English by Oxford University Press in 2011, the book was later published in multiple languages. In 2011 the book was awarded the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category. [8] See also [ edit ] Pictured: British mother, 66, found stabbed to death in her picture postcard Italy home in crime that stunned expat community - as police hunt for her missing partner After Allied forces defeated Germany in World War II, Europe became a difficult place to be associated with Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich. Thousands of Nazi officers, high-ranking party members and collaborators—including many notorious war criminals—escaped across the Atlantic, finding refuge in South America, particularly in Argentina, Chile and Brazil.

3. Martin Bormann – Head of the Nazi Party Chancellery

Edited extract from Nuremberg Diary by Gustave Gilbert (Da Capo Press) End of the trial: Guardian report on the executions, 16 October 1946 Adrian von Renteln – An early leader of the Hitler Youth and the National Socialist Schoolchildren's League, he became Generalkommissar of occupied Lithuania from 1941 to 1944 and was hanged by the Soviets for war crimes. 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. Ernst Rudin – Psychiatrist and eugenicist. His work directly influenced the racial policy of Nazi Germany.

Wilhelm Kube – Gauleiter of Gau Ostmark (1928–1933) and Kurmark (1933–1936), he was also Oberpräsident of the Prussian provinces of Brandenburg and Posen-West Prussia from 1933 to 1936. He was the Generalkommissar for Weißruthenien (White Ruthenia) in the Reichskommissariat Ostland from 1941 until assassinated by partisans in 1943. He was an SS- Gruppenführer. Gottlob Berger – Chief of Staff for the Waffen-SS and head of the SS Main Office. He was an SS- Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS. His Path to South America: After World War II ended, Eichmann went into hiding in Austria. With the aid of a Franciscan monk in Genoa, Italy, he obtained an Argentine visa and signed an application for a falsified Red Cross passport. In 1950 he boarded a steamship to Buenos Aires under the alias Ricardo Klement. Eichmann lived with his wife and four children in a middle-class Buenos Aires suburb and worked in a Mercedes-Benz automotive plant. Karl Hanke – A State Secretary in the Ministry of Propaganda (1937–1941); Gauleiter of Gau Lower Silesia and Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945; the last Reichsführer-SS (after Himmler was expelled from office by Hitler) from late April to early May 1945.His Path to South America: After the end of the war, Stangl was captured by the Americans but escaped to Italy from an Austrian prison camp in 1947. Assisted by the Nazi-sympathizing Austrian bishop Alois Hudal, Stangl traveled to Syria on a Red Cross passport before sailing to Brazil in 1951. Franz Hayler – State Secretary and Deputy to the Reich Economics Minister during the latter part of World War II. Alfred Jodl – Generaloberst; Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command ( Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, or OKW) during World War II, acting as deputy to Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal. Gerhard Bohne (right) arriving at Frankfurt Airport from Buenos Aires, accompanied by two officials of the district criminal board of Wiesbaden. Bohne would be prosecuted for administering the Nazi’s euthanasia program aimed at purifying the Aryan race of people with physical infirmities and mental disabilities.  7. Gerhard Bohne

Heinz Auerswald – Commissioner for the Jewish residential district in Warsaw from April 1941 to November 1942. Werner von Fritsch – Generaloberst, Commander-in-Chief of the Army from 1935 to 1938. Forced out in the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair. Hermann Esser – Early member of the Nazi Party; propagandist; editor of Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter; Second Vice-President of the Reichstag; State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Propaganda (1938–1945).Martin Heidegger – Eminent philosopher; NSDAP member who supported Hitler after he became Chancellor in 1933. Paul Hausser – SS- Oberstgruppenführer; Generaloberst der Waffen-SS. First commander of the military SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) that grew into the Waffen-SS, in which he was a prominent field commander.