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Heinrich Himmler

• Chief of German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior– This meant he was in charge of the

administration of the Waffen-SS (Hilter’s own private army), the army, and the police services.

– Hitler called him "der treue Heinrich" (the loyal Heinrich).

– Easily considered the most powerful man in Germany, after Hitler.

– One of the people most directly responsible for the Holocaust.

Heinrich Himmler

Herman Göring

• Hitler designated him as his successor and deputy in all his offices.– A veteran of World War I as an

ace fighter pilot.– He founded the Gestapo in

1933. – Göring was appointed

commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe (air force) in 1935, a position he held until the final days of World War II.

Herman Göring

Joseph Goebbels

• Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany– One of Adolf Hitler's closest

associates and most devout followers.

– Known for his zealous orations and visceral and homicidal antisemitism.

– Goebbels remained with Hitler in Berlin to the end.

Joseph Goebbels

Martin Bormann

• Private secretary to Adolf Hitler. – He gained Hitler's trust and

derived immense power within the Third Reich by using his position to control the flow of information and access to Hitler.

– He was almost always at his Führer s side. ′

Martin Bormann

Albert Speer

• Chief architect of Nazi Germany.– Minister of Armaments and

War Production for the Third Reich.

– As "the Nazi who said sorry”, he accepted moral responsibility at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs for complicity in crimes of the Nazi regime.

Wilhelm Keitel

• Head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht– One of Germany's most senior

military leaders during World War II.

– The only one present at Wolf's Lair assassination plot not to suffer a perforated eardrum from the bomb blast.

Wilhelm Keitel

Alfred Jodl

• Chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht– Signed the unconditional

surrender of Germany.

Alfred Jodl