| Name |
Description |
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| Military - Army |
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| Arnim, Hans-Jürgen, von |
A German general in the Nazi Wehrmacht during WW2 who was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He commanded the 52nd Infantry Division in both the Battles for Poland and France, the 17th Panzer Division, the XXXIX Panzer Corps during Operation Barbarossa and the 5th Panzer Army under Erwin Rommel in North Africa. | 1 |
| Blomberg, Werner Fritz von |
A German field marshall and Commander-in-Chief of the German Armed Forces until Jan 1938. | 1 |
| Brauchitsch, Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von |
A German field marshal and the Commander-in-Chief of the German Army in the early years of WW2 between 1938 and 1941. | 1 |
| Kluge, Wolfgang, von |
TBD. | 1 |
| Ludendorff, Erich |
A German general who from 1916 was the chief engineer behind the management of Germany’s effort in World War I until his resignation in October 1918. From 1924 to 1928 he represented the German Völkisch Freedom Party in the German Parliament. | 1 |
| Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen |
A German field marshal who commanded the 7th Panzer Division during the 1940 invasion of France. He was best known as commanding the German and Italian forces in the North African campaign for which he was popularly known as the 'Desert Fox'. | 8 |
| Witzig, Rudolf |
TBD. | 1 |
| Military - Navy |
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| Dönitz, Karl |
A German admiral who succeeded Adolf Hitler as the head of state of Germany on 30 April 1945. The short lived 'Flensburg Government' was dissolved by the Allies on 23 May. He was credited with formulating the submarine tactic called the 'Wolfpack'. | 1 |
| Förster, Hugo |
A German U-boat commander who was taken prisoner after his boat U-501 was sunk on its first patrol in 1941. He was repatriated in 1945 but committed suicide after returning to Germany. | 1 |
| Jenisch, Hans |
A German U-boat commander during WW2 who sank 17 Allied ships totalling about 110,000 tons. He was taken prisoner when U-32 was sunk in 1940 northwest of Ireland by two British destroyers. After the war he held many staff positions in the Bundesmarine. | 1 |
| Kretschmer, Otto |
The most successful German U-boat commander of WW2 who sank 47 ships, a total of abut 275,000 tons. He received the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. After the war, he served in the German Federal Navy and retired with the rank of Flottillenadmiral. | 1 |
| Langsdorff, Hans Wilhelm |
TBD. | 1 |
| Lemp, Fritz-Julius |
A German U-boat commander during WW2, the seventh recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross who sank 20 Allied ships totalling about 100,000 tons. He died when U-110 was sunk in 1941. He created huge controversy when on 3 September 1939 he sunk the passenger liner Athenia. | 1 |
| Prien, Günther |
A German U-boat ace of WW2, and the first U-boat commander to receive the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross. Under his command, the submarine U-47 sank over 31 Allied ships totalling about 192,000 tons including the British battleship HMS Royal Oak. It is assumed that U-47 was sunk with all hands on 8 March 1941 | 1 |
| Rahmlow, Hans-Joachim |
A German U-boat commander whose boat U-570 was depth charged by an RAF Hudson as she surfaced seven days into her first patrol. He and his first officer were found guilty of cowardice after surrendering U-570 without scuttling her which resulted in the boat’s Enigma machine and codebooks being captured. | 1 |
| Schepke, Joachim |
A German U-boat commander during WW2, the seventh recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves who sank 36 Allied ships totalling about 154,000 tons. He died when U-100 was sunk in 1941 after being rammed and depth charged by two British destroyers. | 1 |
| Schröder, Ludwig von |
A Prussian officer and Admiral during WW1 who entered the Imperial Naval Service in May 1871. During WW1 he was in charge of both the seagoing forces and most of the naval infantry, which by mid-December 1915 became officially known as the Marinekorps Flandern. | 1 |
| Political |
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| Bismarck, Otto Eduard Leopold |
A Prussian statement who dominated German affairs from the 1860s until 1890. Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg and known as Otto von Bismarck. | 1 |
| Forster, Albert |
A Nazi German politician who was the Gauleiter of Danzig-West Prussia during the second world war. | 1 |
| Friedensburg, Ferdinand |
A member of the German Democratic Party (DDP), in 1921 became district administrator at Rosenberg, Marienwerder. In 1925 Friedensburg was appointed vice president of the Berlin state police agency and in 1927 became region president of the Prussian Regierungsbezirk Kassel. | 1 |
| Goebbels, Joseph |
A German politician and Reich Minister of Propoganda in Nazi Germany. | 8 |
| Göring, Hermann Wilhelm |
A German politician, military leader, and leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP). He was appointed commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe (air force) in 1935, a position he held until the end of World War II | 9 |
| Himmler, Heinrich |
A Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) of Nazi Germany. He was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and one of the persons most directly responsible for the Holocaust. | 2 |
| Hitler, Adolf |
An Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945 | 19 |
| Ley, Robert |
A Nazi politician and head of the German Labour Front from 1933 to 1945. He committed suicide while awaiting trial at Nuremberg for war crimes. | 1 |
| Neurath, Konstantin Hermann Karl Freiherr von |
A German diplomat who served as Foreign Minister for Germany from 1932 to 1938 prior to von Ribbentrop. | 1 |
| Ribbentrop, Joachim von |
Foreign Minister of the German Reich from 1938 until 1945. He was appointed German Ambassador to Britain in 1936. | 2 |
| Schmidt, Paul Karl |
The chief press spokesman for Nazi Germany’s Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop from 1940 to 1945 and a Lieutenant Colonel in the SS. | 1 |
| Weizsäcker, Ernst Freiherr von |
A German diplomat who served as State Secretary at the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1943. | 1 |
