Hitler's Henchmen

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Half warmonger, half comedian Goering more than any of the Dictator's other aides, embodied the face of the Nazi regime. Elevated to martyr status by Nazi propaganda after his 1930 murder– by Communists or by a rival pimp, according to their opponents. Gustav Adolf Scheel – Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of Reichsgau Salzburg (1941–1945) and a Nazi "multifunctionary. Karl Strölin – Lord Mayor of Stuttgart (1933–1945) and Chairman of the Deutsches Ausland-Institut (DAI). What He's Infamous For: The “world’s most wanted Nazi,” Eichmann was the architect of Hitler’s “Final Solution” to exterminate the Jews from Europe.

Josef Terboven – Gauleiter of Gau Essen from 1928, Oberpräsident of the Prussian Rhine Province from 1935 and Reichskommissar of occupied Norway from 1940, he was an SA- Obergruppenführer. Johann Rattenhuber – A policeman and SS- Gruppenführer, he headed the Reichssicherheitsdienst (Reich Security Service) that provided personal protection for Hitler and other Nazi leaders. Josef Grohé – Gauleiter of Gau Cologne-Aachen and Reichskommissar for Reichskommissariat of Belgium and Northern France, he was an Obergruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK). A leading figure in the establishment of the concentration camps system, he was Commandant of Dachau, Concentration Camps Inspector from 1934 to 1939 and then commander of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf. Konstantin Hierl – Reichsleiter and head of the Reichsarbeitsdienst; associate of Adolf Hitler before he came to power.He was a protégé of Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, a "Special Ambassador" and the Foreign Office liaison to Hitler. Bohne was thrown out of the Nazi Party after submitting a report accusing his agency of fraud and corruption. He was the Generalkommissar for Weißruthenien (White Ruthenia) in the Reichskommissariat Ostland from 1941 until assassinated by partisans in 1943. It was a finely balanced team of military commanders, administrative leaders and Ministers of the Nazi Party (NSDAP). Without the guard noticing any unusual movement, Göring – who asked for a soldier's death before a firing squad and was refused – slipped a phial of cyanide of potassium into his mouth and crushed it with his teeth.

Karl Brandt – Personal physician of Adolf Hitler in August 1944 and co-headed the administration of the Aktion T4 euthanasia program from 1939. After the initial triumphs of the war, Goering embarked on a downward spiral of narcotic addiction and narcissism. He was a member of the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements, based in Switzerland and was appointed to the Central Planning Board in September 1943. A decorated war hero with the common touch, Goering was instrumental in making Hitler and the Nazi Party socially acceptable. A qualified economist, lawyer and philosopher; he was also editor of the financial newspaper the Berliner Börsenzeitung.Rudolf Jordan – Gauleiter of Gau Halle-Merseburg (1931–1937) and Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt (1937–1945); Reichsstatthalter of Brunswick and Anhalt; Minister President of Anhalt; Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Magdeburg from 1944; and an SA- Obergruppenführer. 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. How He Was Brought to Justice: In 1994, Priebke’s past was revealed to the world after an ambush interview by ABC newsman Sam Donaldson.

Rudolf Rahn – A diplomat, he was the General Plenipotentiary to the Italian puppet state from September 1943 to April 1945.While there is no evidence that Hitler himself escaped his doomsday bunker and crossed the ocean, such a network could have helped make it possible. Schacht became a fringe member of the German Resistance and was imprisoned after the 20 July plot in 1944. Albert Bormann – Adjutant in Chancellery of the Führer from 1931, in 1938 he became Chief of Main Office I, dealing with the personal affairs of the Führer. In six parts series portrays the men who aided Adolf Hitler in his rise to power and serviced the infernal machinery of the Third Reich.

Karl Weinrich – He was Gauleiter of Gau Electoral Hesse from 1928 to 1943 and an Obergruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Corp (NSKK). Martin Heidegger – Eminent philosopher; NSDAP member who supported Hitler after he became Chancellor in 1933. 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. He was also Minister President of Bavaria from 1942, an SA- Obergruppenfuhrer and was named Minister of the Interior in Hitler's will.Great Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Kreigsmarine (German Naval Force) and Reichsmarine until 1943. As the National Socialist Minister for Propaganda, he relentlessly enforced his extreme ideas on the German people.