Download walked with a limp – deformed foot

Hitler’s
Henchmen
Joseph Goebbels
1897-1945
Minister of Propaganda
-walked with a limp – deformed foot
- considered entering the priesthood
- Ph.D from Heidelberg University
- master of persuasion and mass media
- thought most people had low intellect
Hermann Goering
1893-1946
• Flying ace who shot down 22 allied planes
during WWI
• Goering was head of Hitler’s SA until he
was severely wounded during the Beer
Hall Putsch
• He will eventually become second only to
Hitler in the Nazi leadership
• Goering will also lead the German air
force or Luftwaffe
Hermann Goering
1893-1946
•
“God gave the savior to the German
people. We have faith, deep and
unshakeable faith, that he [Hitler] was
sent to us by God to save Germany.”
Heinrich Himmler
1900-1945
• In 1929, Himmler takes command of
the Schutz Staffel or SS
• The SS will be responsible for
guarding Hitler during his rise to
power
• Himmler was ruthless and very
dedicated to the party and Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
1900-1945
• A man often seen as the very personification of
evil. Heinrich Himmler was not only head of
Hitler's SS police, but was also in charge of the
death camps in the East.
• Although Adolf Hitler held the ultimate
responsibility for what became the Holocaust, it
was Heinrich Himmler who essentially laid the
plans and devised the schemes that led to the
killings of six million Jews.
Heinrich Himmler
1900-1945
• He organized the first concentration
camp at Dachau and began to organize
the Nazi political police throughout
Germany
Albert Speer
1905-1981
• Speer joins the Nazi party in 1932 and
also becomes a member of the SS
• Hitler asks Speer to organize the
Nuremberg Rally of 1934
• Speer then becomes Minister of
Armaments in 1942
• He is best known as the “Nazi Architect”
Rudolph Hess
1894-1987
• Appointed Deputy Fuhrer and became the
number 3 man in Hitler’s Germany
• Joined the Nazi Party in 1920 and was
well known as a brawler
• Hess will rise through the Nazi party and
be completely loyal to Hitler’s ideals
Adolf Eichmann
1906-1962
• Headed Gestapo Department IV B4 for Jewish
Affairs
• Served as a self proclaimed 'Jewish specialist'
• He was the man responsible for keeping the
trains rolling from all over Europe to death
camps during the Final Solution.
• He was caught on May 11, 1960
• Found guilty on all counts, sentenced to death
and hanged at Ramleh Prison, May 31, 1962.