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Born July 22, 1892 • Jihlava • Czechoslovakia
Died October 16, 1946 (aged 54) • Nuremberg • Germany
Title / Office chancellor (1938-1938), Austria
Political Affiliation Nazi Party
Role In Anschluss • World War II
Albert Speer
Albert Speer
German architect and Nazi official
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Baldur von Schirach
German Nazi politician
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Austrian Nazi
Portrait of Adolf Hitler in a collared shirt and tie, facing forward with a serious expression, circa 1933.
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring
German political leader and convicted war criminal
Adolf Eichmann listening to an Israeli court's verdict
Adolf Eichmann
German military official
Portrait of German diplomat Joachim von Ribbentrop in formal attire, looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression.
Joachim von Ribbentrop
German diplomat
Martin Bormann
Martin Bormann
German Nazi leader
Alfred Rosenberg
Alfred Rosenberg
German Nazi leader
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Klaus Barbie
Nazi leader
Julius Streicher in a formal portrait, wearing a Nazi uniform with a swastika armband, looking to the side.
Julius Streicher
German politician
Nazi official Walther Funk seated and looking to the side during the Nuremberg trials, November 24, 1945.
Walther Funk
German economist
Frick, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Frick
German politician
Frank, Hans
Hans Frank
German politician and jurist
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Karl Hermann Frank
German politician
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Fritz Sauckel
German Nazi politician
Otto Skorzeny
Otto Skorzeny
Nazi SS officer
Kesselring
Albert Kesselring
German field marshal
Tōjō Hideki
Tōjō Hideki
prime minister of Japan
Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Alfried
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
German industrialist

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