Hitler's Henchmen

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In one page he is referred to as: “the opinion-former,” “the new controller of press,” “the conductor,” “the disabled hack,” “the former pauper,” “the would-be Robespierre,” “the agitator. After the defeat of Nazi Germany, Priebke fled to Argentina, where he lived for almost 50 years before being extradited to Italy to face trial.

The one chapter I felt did not really cover very much was the one on Albert Speer, it was a bit sparse and did not really go into his background much which was disappointing. This book also should be proscribed reading for all those who do not acknowledge the Holocaust and for all of us take it as a warning that this could happen on this scale again. He's pictured here with Heinrich Himmler, Franz Josef Huber (secret state police), Arthur Nebe (criminal investigation department), and Reinhard Heydrich. Each person's chapter deals with their background, how and why they got involved with the Hitler and the Nazis, what they were involved with, what they knew - or claimed they didn't know - and their ends. The central tenet of societal organization in Nazi Germany was the 'Führer Principle' by which Hitler's word was (above) law: propaganda posters reminded citizens that 'The Führer is always right.I totally recommend if your interested in WW2 non fiction as it was such a interesting read to read about one of Hitler’s henchman! Walther Funk was the Reich Minister of Economics, President of the Reichsbank and State Secretary of at the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

The Wannsee Conference was chaired by SS and police official Reinhard Heydrich, during which he presented plans to finalize the deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe. A master orator, Goebbels used his platform to broadcast his deeply virulent anti-Semitism, later advocating for the extermination of the Jews. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.He was Hitler's most loyal follower and ended his days in the bunker with his beloved leader, taking the lives of his wife, his six young children and then committing suicide. Aside from the part they played in Hitler’s regime, these three men all had one further thing in common – they survived the war and restarted their careers in Adenauer’s Federal Republic of Germany. As a member of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, the SS organisation responsible for administering the concentration and extermination camps, Arnold Strippel served at a number of locations during his rise to the rank of SS-Obersturmführer. Appointed Reichsführer-SS by Hitler, he was responsible for setting up and controlling the concentration camps, thus becoming a main architect of the Holocaust.