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18.03.2010
Adolf Eichmann     Sentenced     Israel     Nazi Germany
Adolf Eichmann was born on 19 March 1906 in Solingen, Germany. His family moved to Austria in 1914. Eichmann joined the Austrian Nazi Party in 1932 and the Austrian Legion in 1933, in exile in Germany. In 1934, he became a member of the SD (Himmler’s security service) and was – together with others – put in charge of the “Jewish Question”. He was appointed head of the “Office for Jewish Emigration” in August 1938. Eichmann was transferred to t...

18.03.2010
Fritz Sauckel     Sentenced     IMT - Nuremberg     Nazi Germany
Fritz Sauckel was born in October 1894 in Bamberg, in Bavaria. Having joined the Nazi party in 1922, he became the Gauleiter for Franconia in 1925, then member of the Reichstag, the German parliament in 1933. In March 1942, his career took a decisive turn when Hitler named him as Plenipotentiary for the Mobilisation of Workers. He was from then on in overall charge of finding manpower both in Germany and in the occupied territories. These work...

18.03.2010
Hjalmar Schacht     Acquitted     IMT - Nuremberg     Nazi Germany
Hjalmar Schacht was born on 22 January 1887 in Tinglev, in Schleswig. He was the son of a rich Danish businessman and studied economics in Germany before joining the Dresdner Bank in 1903. Appointed President of the Reichsbank in December 1923, he succeeded in stabilising the new Mark after the disastrous hyperinflation crisis of 1923, but handed in his resignation in 1930 to protest against the continuance of war reparation payments, as dicta...

12.03.2010
Karl Doenitz     Sentenced     IMT - Nuremberg     Nazi Germany
Karl Doenitz was born in Berlin-Grenau on 16 September 1891 In 1935, Doenitz was given command of the fleet of German submarines. He became vice-admiral in 1940 and finally admiral in 1942. When he became Commander in Chief of the German naval fleet on January 30 1943, he authorized German submarines to sink all commercial vessels, be they hostile or neutral. Moreover, in 1944, he ordered 12’000 prisoners held in concentration camps to be emp...

08.03.2010
Martin Bormann     Sentenced     IMT - Nuremberg     Nazi Germany
Martin Bormann was born on 17 June 1900 in Halberstadt, in Sachsen-Anhalt, into a family of modest means. He served for a brief period in the artillery during the First World War, before joining right wing movements after the war. He became a member of the NSDAP, the Nazi party, in 1925. Between 1928 and 1930 he was a member of the SA. Rising through the ranks of the party, Bormann was elected to the Reichstag in 1933. From July 1933 until 194...

03.03.2010
Rudolf Hoess     Sentenced     Poland     Nazi Germany
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28.02.2010
Arthur Seyss-Inquart     Sentenced     IMT - Nuremberg     Nazi Germany
Arthur Seyss-Inquart was born on 27 July 1892 in Moravia, which, at the time, was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the son of a school teacher and studied law before taking part in the First World War during which he was seriously wounded. He subsequently became a lawyer and began to pursue extreme right wing ideas. He entered politics and was a proponent of the Anschluss, meaning the attachment of Austria to Germany. In 1938, the A...

28.02.2010
Albert Speer     Sentenced     IMT - Nuremberg     Nazi Germany
Albert Speer was born as the son of an architect, in 1905in Mannheim. He chose the same profession as his father, which he exercised from 1927. Speer first heard Hitler speak in 1930. Deeply impressed, he joined the NSDAP in 1932. Hitler appreciated his organisational skills and put him in charge of the 1934 Nuremberg Rally. Later, Hitler commissioned Speer to design numerous buildings, such as the Reich Chancellery and the party's headquart...

28.02.2010
Julius Streicher     Sentenced     IMT - Nuremberg     Nazi Germany
Julius Streicher was born on 12 February 1885 in Fleinhausen, Bavaria. Son of a schoolmaster, he worked as a teacher in a primary school until joining the German army in 1914. In 1919, Streicher helped to establish an anti-Semitic political organisation which would later be incorporated into the NSDAP, the Nazi Party. In 1923, at the time of the Munich putsch attempt, Streicher became a close collaborator of Adolf Hitler. It was also in 19...

10.02.2010
Konstantin Von Neurath     Sentenced     IMT - Nuremberg     Nazi Germany
Konstantin Von Neurath was born on 2 February 1873 in Württemberg and studied law before joining the German Diplomatic Corps in 1901. He was sent to London in 1903 as Vice-Consul and became Consul of the embassy in 1909. He was posted to Istanbul in 1914. He was an infantry officer during the First World War and after being wounded returned to Istanbul, then back to Germany where he became Governor of Württemberg. Between 1919 and 1932 he was pos...
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