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People, such as Erwin Rommel and Erich Raeder, were involved in the fight for Nazi dominance during World War II. Their biographies and the biographies of other people associated with the Axis are presented in this section.
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Are there Nazi war criminals still at large?
A few Nazi leaders escaped justice after World War II. Who are they, and how are people trying to bring them to justice more than 50 years later?
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Joseph Goebbels
Goebbels, Joseph Paul (1897–1945), a German Nazi propagandist. As minister of propaganda in Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, 1933–45, he not only used the press, radio, and other forms of communication to serve the Nazi regime, but also molded German cultural life to that end.
See more »Adolf Eichmann
Eichmann, Adolf (1906–1962), a German Nazi official. He joined the Nazi party and the SS (party police) in 1932, and was assigned to Jewish affairs in 1934.
See more »Albert Kesselring
Kesselring Albert (1887–1960), a German army officer. He joined the army in 1904 and was an aviator during World War I, becoming a friend of Hermann Göring.
See more »Alfred G. Jodl
Jodl, Alfred Gustav (1892?–1946), a German army officer. Jodl was chief of staff of the high command of the armed forces, 1938–45, rising to the rank of colonel general.
See more »Alfred Rosenberg
Rosenberg, Alfred (1893–1946), a German Nazi leader. As an official spokesman for Nazism, Rosenberg taught that there was a German “race,” superior to others, and that “inferior” races, particularly the Jews, were responsible for Germany's ills.
See more »Erich Raeder
Raeder, Erich (1876–1960), a German naval officer. As head of the German naval command, 1928–35, he rebuilt the German navy, in violation of the Versailles Treaty of 1919.
See more »Erwin Rommel
Rommel, Erwin (1891–1944), a German army officer. An expert in tank warfare, he was called “The Desert Fox” for his genius in directing German troops in North Africa during World War II.
See more »Gunther von Kluge
Kluge, Gunther von (1882–1944), a German army officer. He participated in the Polish and French campaigns early in World War II and commanded the drive on Moscow in 1941.
See more »Heinrich A. H. W. Von Brauchitsch
BrauchitschHeinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von (1881–1948), a German army officer.
See more »Heinrich Himmler
Himmler, Heinrich (1900–1945), a German Nazi leader. As head of the Nazi concentration camp system, he was largely responsible for the deaths of vast numbers of persons.
See more »Heinz Guderian
Guderian, Heinz (1888–1954), a German army officer. An expert on tank strategy, Guderian was given command of all German panzer (armored) units in 1938.
See more »Hermann W. Goering
Goering, or Göring, Hermann Wilhelm (1893–1946), a German air force officer and Nazi leader.
See more »Hirohito
Hirohito (1901–1989), emperor of Japan, 1926–89. His Japanese title, Tenno, means “heavenly sovereign”; the name of his reign, Showa, means “light and peace.” During Hirohito's reign, Japan came under military rule, entered World War II, and suffered defeat—and then developed into a democracy and became one of the most prosperous nations in the world.
See more »Isoroku Yamamoto
Yamamoto Isoroku, (1884–1943), the Japanese admiral who led the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941, starting war with the United States.
See more »Joachim Von Ribbentrop
Ribbentrop, Joachim von (1893–1946), a German Nazi diplomat. Ribbentrop was ambassador to Great Britain, 1936–38, and foreign minister, 1938–45.
See more »Karl Doenitz
Doenitz, Karl (1891–1980), a German naval officer. He was a submarine expert who became commander in chief of the German navy in 1943.
See more »Karl R. G. von Rundstedt
Rundstedt, Karl Rudolf Gerd von (1875–1953), a German army officer. Rundstedt was a member of an aristocratic Prussian family and the son of a general.
See more »Kurusu Saburo
Kurusu Saburo (1888–1954), a Japanese diplomat. He was on a special peace mission to the United States when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
See more »Reinhard Heydrich
Heydrich, Reinhard (1904–1942), a German Nazi official. As head of the Reich Security Office (a part of the SS, the Nazi party police), he was responsible for the arrests and executions of many opponents of the Nazi regime.
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