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The German High Command: WWII Dictator of Nazi Germany, Supreme Commander and Commander-inChief of German armed forces. ADOLF HITLER Chief of the Luftwaffe A vain, greedy and incompetent unstable WWI flying ace and morphine addict, Goering amassed a personal fortune looting the estates of Jews sent to concentration camps. Sentenced to death at Nuremberg ("His guilt is unique in its enormity," the tribunal decreed), Goering committed suicide by cyanide. HERMANN GOERING Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces (OKW) from 1938 until the end of the War. War Minister who advised Hitler and never really questioned his decisions. At the Nuremburg trials Keitel was found guilty of war crimes and hanged. WILHELM KEITEL Minister for Propaganda, he had total control of the German press and radio. He was doggedly loyal to his Fuhrer (read to Hitler his favorite book as the Allies approached Berlin) "It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent; its task is to lead to success," he said. He and his wife committed suicide rather than surrender JOSEPH GOEBBELS Head of the SS, the Waffen SS and Gestapo and Minister of the Interior. By the end of the War, Himmler had become the second most powerful man in Germany. Himmler oversaw Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" and the killing of millions from "degenerate" races. He committed suicide by cyanide before he could be tried at Nuremberg. HEINRICH HIMMLER Hitler's deputy who was instrumental in the creation of the Nuremberg Laws. Hess tried to personally make peace with Britain in 1941, flying to the UK on the eve of Hitler's war against Stalin. Promptly arrested, he sat out the war as a POW. Sentenced to life in prison at the Nuremberg Trials. Dies in 1987 RUDOLPH HESS “Architect of the Holocaust” Chief of the Reich Central Office of Jewish Emigration Authorized the deportation of countless Jews to concentration camps & supervised the SS action groups. Hanged in 1962. ADOLF EICHMANN Commander of the German Navy's U-boats until 1943 then subsequently Commander in Chief of the Navy. Told personally by Hitler that he would be his successor. Spent ten years in prison, died in 1980. KARL DONITZ The “Witch of Buchenwald” Wife of the Commandant of Buchenwald camp. Known for abusing prisoners , (She was accused of taking souvenirs from the skin of murdered inmates with distinctive tattoos) Sentenced to life in prison by my great grandfather. Colonel John S. Dwinell ISLE KOCH