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What He's Infamous For: Nicknamed the “White Death” for his proclivity to wear a white uniform and carry a whip, the Austrian-born Stangl worked on the Aktion T-4 euthanasia program under which the Nazis killed those with mental and physical disabilities. Franz von Papen – A prominent politician and intriguer in the Weimar Republic, he engineered Hitler's appointment as Chancellor with himself as Vice Chancellor. Karl Gerland – Gauleiter of Gau Electoral Hesse from 1943 and Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Kurhessen from 1944, he was an SS- Gruppenführer.

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. Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal holding photographs depicting former Gestapo chief Walter Rauff and a mobile gas-chamber van he created to execute Jews. Julius Lippert – Nazi activist and propaganda official who supervised the 1936 Summer Olympics in Germany. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach – Ran the Friedrich Krupp AG heavy industry conglomerate from 1909 until 1941; Nazi party financier, Succeeded by his son Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. Otto von Bolschwing – Member of the SD-foreign branch and deputy to Adolf Eichmann, played a major role in organizing the 1941 Bucharest pogrom.He became Chief of Personal Staff to the Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler) and SS Liaison Officer to Hitler until his replacement in 1943. He was chosen by Himmler to oversee the creation of, and command the volunteer Waffen-SS Division, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking. Imbued with a deep belief in his "Messiah", the eloquent orator rose to be one of Hitler's most fanatical accomplices. It was a finely balanced team of military commanders, administrative leaders and Ministers of the Nazi Party (NSDAP). Helmuth Brückner – A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch, he was Gauleiter of Gau Silesia from 1925 and Oberpräsident of the Prussian provinces of both Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia from 1933.

Josef Bürckel – A Gauleiter from 1926 in the Rhinepfalz and the Saarland (later, Gau Westmark) from 1935. Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force), founder of the Gestapo in 1933, Minister of the Economic Four Year Plan, Reichsmarschall, senior to all other Wehrmacht commanders, and in 1941, designated by Hitler as his successor and second in command in all his offices. Max Amann – Reichsleiter for the Press, President of the Reich Press Chamber and head of the Nazi publishing house Eher Verlag.

Packed with exclusive interviews, combat film and both public and private German archive film, HITLER'S HENCHMEN takes you inside Nazi Germany as never before to help understand why this murderous regime behaved as it did - and how it came so close to world domination. He was Hitler's mentor on economic issues, was co-author of the National Socialist Program and a participant in the Beer Hall Putsch. Wilhelm Weiß – Editor-in-Chief of the Nazi Party's official newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, from 1938 to 1945, President of the Reich Press Association and an SA- Obergruppenführer. Karl Strölin – Lord Mayor of Stuttgart (1933–1945) and Chairman of the Deutsches Ausland-Institut (DAI).

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. The former commander of the Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps Franz Stangl sits in the dock of the Düsseldorf Assize Court on December 22, 1970. It was revived in English by way of the novelist Sir Walter Scott, who took the word and its derivation, according to the New English Dictionary, from Edward Burt's Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland, together with its erroneous derivation from haunch. Contemporary witnesses and his nephew Klaus Hessler speak for the first time on film about the largely unknown successor to Hitler. I regret that my people were not led by soldiers only and that crimes were committed in which I had no share.Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach – member of Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft; Colonel, NSDAP Flying Corps; ran the Friedrich Kiesow AG heavy industry conglomerate from 1943 to 1945, and subsequently from 1951 to 1967. 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. Günther Korten – General and Chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff from August 1943 until killed in the 20 July 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler. After 1945, Argentine President Juan Perón, himself drawn to fascist ideologies, enlisted intelligence officers and diplomats to help establish “rat lines,” or escape routes via Spanish and Italian ports, for many in the Third Reich.

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. There, as in Tunisia, Rauff gained a “reputation for utter ruthlessness,” infamous for the indiscriminate execution of both Jews and local partisans. As the Reichsstudentenführer, he headed the National Socialist German Students' League and the German Student Union. 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.After persecuting Jews in Vichy France-controlled Tunisia during 1942 and 1943, Rauff oversaw Gestapo operations in northwest Italy.

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