1906-1962
Austrian Nazi. As an SS official during Hitler’s regime (1933-1945),
he was responsible for atrocities against Jews and others, including the
implementation of genocide.
He managed to escape at the fall of Germany 1945, but was discovered
in Argentina 1960, abducted by Israeli agents,
tried in Israel 1961 for war crimes, and executed.
1880-1946
Japanese politician, foreign minister 1940-41. A fervent nationalist,
Matsuoka led Japan out of the League of Nations when it condemned Japan
for the seizure of Manchuria.
As foreign minister, he allied Japan with Germany and Italy. At the
end of World War II, he was arrested as a war criminal but died before
his trial.
1894-1987
German Nazi leader. Imprisoned with Hitler 1923-25, he became his private
secretary, taking down Mein Kampf from
his dictation.
In 1932 he was appointed deputy Fuhrer to Hitler. On 10 May 1941 he
landed by air in the UK with compromise peace
proposals and was held a prisoner of war until 1945, when he was tried
at Nuremberg as a war criminal and sentenced
to life imprisonment.
He died in Spandau prison, Berlin. He was effectively in charge of
the Nazi party organization until his flight 1941. For the last years of
his life he was the only prisoner left in Spandau.
1893-1946
Nazi leader, German field marshal from 1938. He was part of Hitler's
inner circle, and with Hitler's rise to power in 1933, he established the
Gestapo and concentration camps.
Appointed successor to Hitler in 1939, he built a vast economic empire
in occupied Europe, but later lost favour and was expelled from the party
in 1945.
Tried at Nuremberg for war crimes, he poisoned himself before he could
be executed. Goering was born in Bavaria.
He was a renowned fighter pilot in World War 1 and joined the Nazi
party in 1922. He was elected to the Reichstag
in 1928 and became its president in 1932. As commissioner for
aviation he built up the Luftwaffe. In 1936 he took charge of the 4 year
plan for war.
1913-1991
German Nazi, a member of the SS from 1936. During World War II he was
involved in the deportation of Jews from
the occupied Netherlands 1940-42 and in tracking down Jews and Resistance
workers in France 1942-45.
He was arrested 1983 and convicted of crimes against humanity in France
1987. His work as SS commander, based
in Lyon, included the rounding-up of Jewish children from an orphanage
at Izieu and the torture of the Resistance
leader Jean Moulin.
His Ruthlessness during this time earned him the epithet Butcher of
Lyon. Having escaped capture 1945, Barbie was
employed by the US intelligence services in Germany before moving to
Bolivia in 1951. He was expelled from
there in 1983 and returned to France. He was tried by a court in Lyon.
He died in prison.
1876-1960
German admiral. Chief of Staff in World War I, he became head of the
navy 1928, but was dismissed by Hitler in 1943 because of his failure to
prevent Allied Arctic convoys from reaching the USSR.
Sentenced to life imprisonment at the Nuremberg trials of war criminals,
he was released 1955 on grounds of ill health.
1900 - 1947
German Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp from 1940 - 1943.
Under his control more than 2.5 million
people were exterminated.
He was arrested by allied millitary police in 1946 and handed over
to the Polish authorities. They tried him as a war criminal and executed
him in 1947.
1892 - 1946
German General. In World War Two he drew up the Nazi Governments
plan for the attack on Yugoslavia, Greece and
the USSR.
In January 1945 he became Chief of Staff and headed the delegation
that signed Germany's surrender in Reims on 7
May 1945.
He was tried as a war criminal in Nuremberg and hanged.
1901 - 1946
Austrian Nazi leader. After the annexation of Austria 1938 he
joined Police Chief Himmler's staff and as head of the security police
from 1943 was responsible for the murder of millions of Jews and allied
soldiers in World War Two.
After the war he was tried at Nuremberg as a war criminal and hanged.
1893 - 1946
German Nazi politician and diplomat who was born in Rhineland.
He joined the Nazi party in 1932 and acted as
Hitlers adviser on foreign affairs, he was German ambassador to britain
1936 - 1938 and Foreign Minister 1938 - 1945. During this time he
negotiated the non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union.
He was tried at Nuremberg as a war criminal in 1946 and hanged.
1893 - 1946
German politician who was born in Tallinn, Estonia. He became
the chief Nazi idealogist and was Minister for Eastern occupied territories
in 1941 - 1944.
He was tried at Nuremberg in 1946 as a war criminal and hanged.
1884 - 1948
Japanese General and Premier 1941 - 1944 during World War Two.
He was promoted to Chief of Staff of Japan's
Guangdong army in Manchuria 1937, he served as Minister for war from
1940 - 1941.
He was held responsible for defeats in the Pacific in 1944 and forced
to resign. After Japan's defeat he was hanged as a war criminal.
1882 - 1946
German Field Marshal in World War Two, Chief of the Supreme Command
from 1938 and Hitlers Chief Military Advisor.
He signed Germanys unconditional surrender in Berlin on 8 May 1945.
He was tried at Nuremberg for war crimes and was hanged.
1882 - 1946
Romanian general and politician who headed a Pro-German government
during World War Two and was executed for war
crimes in 1946.