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Important Nazi Leaders

Important Nazi Leaders. Heinrich Himmler. Reichsfuehrer of the SS Oversaw internal and external security forces Organized and Oversaw system of Concentration Camps and organized extermination of Jews, Gypsies (Roma), Homosexuals, Mentally Challenged, etc. Hermann Goring.

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Important Nazi Leaders

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  1. Important Nazi Leaders

  2. Heinrich Himmler • Reichsfuehrer of the SS • Oversaw internal and external security forces • Organized and Oversaw system of Concentration Camps and organized extermination of Jews, Gypsies (Roma), Homosexuals, Mentally Challenged, etc.

  3. Hermann Goring • Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe • Successor to Hitler in Nazi Party • Responsible for Nuremberg Laws and fine on Jews after Kristallnacht

  4. Reinhard Heydrich • Aka “The Hangman” • Chief of the Reich Main Security Office • Chaired the Wannsee Conference • Where “Final Solution” was devised • Deportation and Extermination of all Jews and unwanted groups.

  5. Adolf Eichmann • Lieutenant Colonel in Wehrmacht • Major organizer of the Holocaust • Had the task of managing and facilitating the mass logistics of moving all prisoners and victims of the Holocaust

  6. Paul Joseph Goebbels • Reich Minister of Propaganda • Close Associate and Devoted follower of Hitler • Known for oratory skills and zealous Anti-Semitism • Had a hand in influencing Kristallnacht • Urged Germans to accept idea of total war toward Allies

  7. Dr. Josef Mengele • “Angel of Death” • Physician in Concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau • Initially known for being a Dr. who separated arriving prisoners to either be killed or forced labor

  8. Mengele continued… • Experiments • Intrigued by physical abnormalities that he saw in arriving prisoners • Experiments included removing organs, using chemicals to change eye color, amputating limbs • Interested in Heredity • Specifically identical twins

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