Hitler's Henchmen

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Karl Doenitz was Hitler's Admiral of the Fleet and the creator of the U-boat. Before Hitler committed suicide in the Reich Chancellery bunker, he appointed Karl Doenitz as his successor. Powerless and on the verge of defeat Doenitz's reign lasted just 23 days. Josef Wagner – Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia-South from 1931 and also of Gau Silesia from 1934. Oberpräsident of the Prussian provinces of both Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia from 1934 and, after their union, the Province of Silesia (1938–1941). He was also an Obergruppenführer of both the SA and NSKK. Relieved of his posts in November 1941 and expelled from the Nazi Party in October 1942, he was executed by the Gestapo in 1945. Franz Gürtner – Minister of Justice in Bavaria (1922–1932) he became Reich Minister of Justice from 1932 to his death in 1941. Anton Drexler – A founder and Chairman of the German Workers' Party, the precursor to the Nazi Party. He was a co-author of the National Socialist Program and Chairman of the Nazi Party from February 1920 to July 1921 when he was succeeded by Adolf Hitler. Bormann had been a major advocate of the persecution and the extermination of Jews and had played a main role in expanding the German slave labour programme.

Adrian von Renteln – An early leader of the Hitler Youth and the National Socialist Schoolchildren's League, he became Generalkommissar of occupied Lithuania from 1941 to 1944 and was hanged by the Soviets for war crimes.Your son killed Jews! I'm talking to you from a Jewish woman's phone - I killed her and her husband': Israel releases audio 'of Hamas terrorist bragging to his proud parents of killing ten people' Philipp Bouhler – Reichsleiter, Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP and leader of the Aktion T4 euthanasia program. Also an SS- Obergruppenführer, he committed suicide in May 1945. Karl Holz – protégé of rabid antisemitic journalist Julius Streicher, he was editor-in-chief at Der Stürmer and Deputy Gauleiter of Gau Franconia for many years, becoming Gauleiter in 1942. He was also an SA- Gruppenführer. Otto Strasser – early prominent German Nazi official and politician. Otto Strasser, together with his brother Gregor Strasser, was a leading member of the party's left-wing faction, and broke from the party due to disputes with the dominant " Hitlerite" faction. Paul Wegener – A regional administrator in occupied Norway from 1940 to 1942, he succeeded Karl Röver as Gauleiter of Gau Weser-Ems and Reichsstatthalter of both Oldenburg and Bremen from 1942 to 1945. He was an SS- Obergruppenführer. President Karl Dönitz named him a State Secretary as staff chief of the civilian cabinet in May 1945.

Odilo Globocnik – A prominent Austrian Nazi, as an SS- Obergruppenführer he was an SS and Police Leader in the General Government and in the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral. As head of Operation Reinhard he was one of those responsible for the murder of millions of people during the Holocaust. Great Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Kreigsmarine (German Naval Force) and Reichsmarine until 1943. 5. Wilhelm Keitel Siegfried Uiberreither – An Austrian Nazi, he was Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Styria and Landeshauptmann of Styria. He was also Chief of Civil Administration in Lower Styria and an SA- Obergruppenführer. Richard Walther Darré – Reichsleiter, Reich Peasant Leader and Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture from 1933 to 1942. He was an SS- Obergruppenführer and head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office. Wilhelm Keitel – Generalfeldmarschall and head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces) during World War II. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.Leopold von Mildenstein – Pro- Zionism expert in the headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) under Reinhard Heydrich until 1936, when the planned mass immigration of Jews to Palestine fell out of favor; convinced Adolf Eichmann to transfer to his SS department which handled "Jewish Affairs".