Famous Nazi People
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski was a Nazi official and member of the Schutzstaffel. His family had served Poland. Bach-Zelewski’s father had joined World War I and died in 1915.After his father died Erich volunteered to join the war. Once the war had ended, he decided to stick with the military and fulfill duties. Bach-Zelewski had then joined Grenzschutz, where he remained until 1930. After this, he became involved in the Nazi Party and continued to get higher rankings. Bach became commander of all police and SS units in Silesia. He also commanded during the shooting of Prisoners of War. Bach took a step up and became commander
for the strengthening of German spirits in occupying Polish Silesia. He forced more than 200,000 families out of their homes and in 1940 he created a concentration camp, in which was known to be ranked the highest for exterminating the Jews. Bach was a higher police in Poland and was in charge of killing over 200,000 civilians, in which he mass murdered 35,000.He then later was given an up rise in commanding troops that were fighting against the Warsaw Uprising.In 1945 his commanding and power up rise came to an end as U.S. military police captured him, while he was attempting to escape through an underground tunnel. Once Bach was captured he was put in prison until 1949. After this, he admitted to crimes and was sentenced for ten years in a labor camp. He was then sentenced another ten years after he murdered ten German communist. On March 8, 1972 Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski died in prison. |
Richard Baer was a Nazi official and was one of the commanders at the Auschwitz concentration camps from 1944-1945. He was first guard at the Dachau concentration camp and later at the Neuengamme concentration camp. He was part of the killing of the Soviet prisoners at war, in which they were all placed into gas chambers. Richard Baer was adjutant of SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl and was head of the SS office/economic policies. He then became inspector of the D1 department of concentration camps. After the war, when the investigation of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials started, a warrant for his arrest was issued in October 1960, and on December 1960, he was arrested. Later on Richard Bair died from a heart attack during trial.
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Carl Clauberg was a German medical doctor whose best known for doing
experiments at Nazi concentration camps. During World War II he did excruciating attempts on many Jewish women. He began studying medicine after World War I and later became head doctor at a University. Carl partnered up with the Nazi’s in 1933. Carl continued to study medicine and was specifically curious in women hormones. In 1942 he started his examinations and moved to the Auschwitz concentration camps to perform. Here he and his authorizations of SS, chief Heinrich Himmler began to come up with ways with mass sterilization. Carl injected toxins into the uterus. This caused severe pain and sometimes ended with death. He experimented on more than 700 Jewish women in which many had severe infections. Later on the Soviets captured Carl and he was sentenced to 25-years in prison. Once he was released he was arrested again in 1955 and died before trial had even started. |
Hanna Reitsch was the first female test pilot in 1940. In 1934, she broke the world's altitude record for women flying 9,184 feet into the air. Hanna was a big fan of Hitler and soon she was made an honorary flight captain. This was a very big award and even bigger because she was the first female. She received many awards, but is best known for her idea of a Luftwaffe suicide squad. At first Hitler wasn't so sure of the idea, but then she took steps forward in convincing him. Later on, the suicide squad was never called out and the flight was cancelled. After the war, Reitsch was captured by the U.S. Army. She then testified and was released. After she was released she continued to set records as a female pilot. She was the first female to ever fly a glider over the Alps. Hanna wrote a book called, Flying Is My Life and she became even more well-known. Reitsch died in 1979, and had set 40 records for flying.
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Leni Riefenstahl was a big star in Germany. She found fame in film making, in which was very unique, considering that women had played a second role to men. Hitler was very interested in her. He let her perform and gave her permission to produce films for the Nazi regime. It was believed that Hitler found her to be the ultimate German women. Lenis most famous film was "Triumph of the Will". The film made her even more famous and she won many awards in both Germany and Italy. After the war Leni was put into jail and was said to have been a visual of the Nazis Party. She was later taken out of jail in 1945 and was not allowed to film for many years. Later she returned back to filming and was the first women in 2002, who was over 100 a still produced film.
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