Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian ideology of the National Socialist German Workers Party, or Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator.

Prominent persons in Nazi Germany

For a listing of Hitler's cabinet see : Hitler's Cabinet, January 1933 - April 1945

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Nazi Party and Nazi government leaders and officials

• Adolf Hitler — Führer
• Hermann Göring — Reichsmarshall and Minister-President of Prussia. Air Minister.
• Rudolf Hess — the Führer's Deputy.
• Joseph Goebbels — Minister of Propaganda
• Heinrich Himmler — Head of the SS
• Albert Speer — First Architect, Minister for Armament from 1942
• Martin Bormann — Head of the Nazi Party
• Joachim von Ribbentrop — Foreign Minister
• Alfred Rosenberg — Reichsleiter
• Walter Funk — Minister of Industries
• Wilhelm Frick — Minister of the Interior
• Hans Lammers — Head of the Reich Chancellery
• Otto Meissner — Head of the Chancellery
• Hjalmar Schacht — Minister, President of the Reichsbank
• Konstantin von Neurath — Head of the Secret Cabinet.
• Fritz Todt — Inspector-General for Roads
• Hans Frank — Minister, Head of the German Law Academy
• Robert Ley — Leader of the German Labor Front
• Baldur von Schirach — Leader of Nazi Youth Organisations
• Arthur Seyß-Inquart — Reichsstatthalter in Austria, Commissioner for the Occupied Netherlands
• Franz Guertner — Minister of Justice
• Karl Brandt — Reich Comissioner of Health and Sanitation
• Alois Brunner
• Hanns Kerrl — Minister for Ecclesiastical
• Otto Dietrich — Secretary of State, Reich Chief of the Press
• Karl Hanke — Secretary of State, Propaganda Ministry
• Bernhard Rust — Minister of Education
• Franz Seldte — Minister of Labor
• Konstantin Hierl — Head of the Labour Service
• Hans von Tschammer und Osten — Secretary of State and Reich Sports Leader
• Gertrud Scholtz-Klink — Reich Leader of Women
• Ernst Wilhelm Bohle — Secretary of State, Head of the Foreign Organization
• Viktor Lutze Chief of Staff of the SA
• Roland Freisler
• Hans Fritzsche
• Ernst Röhm
• Karl Otto Koch
• Herbert Lange
• Arthur Axmann
• Alfred Meyer
• Erich Priebke
• Fritz Sauckel
• Carl Schmitt
• Julius Streicher
• Josef Terboven

SS personnel

• See: List of SS Personnel

Military

• Karl Dönitz-Commander of the German U-Boat force, later the German Navy
• Erwin Rommel
• Wilhelm Keitel
• Claus von Stauffenberg
• Wilhelm Canaris
• Alfred Jodl
• Erich Raeder
• Robert Ritter von Greim
• Albert Kesselring

Other

• Gottfried Benn
• Eva Braun
• Wernher von Braun
• Houston Stewart Chamberlain
• Anton Drexler
• Gottfried Feder
• Friedrich Flick
• Theodor Fritsch
• Arthur de Gobineau
• Hans Friedrich Karl Günther (not to be confused with Hans Günther)
• Karl Harrer
• Willibald Hentschel
• Alfred Hoche
• Armin D. Lehmann
• Lanz von Liebenfels
• Guido von List
• Karl Lueger
• Alfred Ploetz
• Ferdinand Porsche
• John Rabe
• Geli Raubal
• Leni Riefenstahl
• Oskar Schindler
• Rudolf von Sebottendorf
• Richard Sorge
• Johannes Stark
• Walter Thiel
• Richard Wagner
• Winifred Wagner
• Konrad Zuse

Noted victims

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Georg Elser
• Anne Frank
• Janusz Korczak
• Erich Mühsam
• Carl von Ossietzky
• White Rose (Sophie and Hans Scholl and others)
• Bruno Schulz
• Ernst Thälmann

Noted refugees

• Albert Bassermann
• Johannes R. Becher
• Rudolf Belling
• Walter Benjamin
• Bertolt Brecht
• Marlene Dietrich
• Albert Einstein
• Lion Feuchtwanger
• Sigmund Freud
• Erich Fromm
• Kurt Gödel
• Walter Gropius
• Friedrich Hayek
• Heinrich Eduard Jacob
• Theodor Kramer
• Fritz Lang
• Thomas Mann
• Ludwig von Mises
• Solomon Perel
• Erich Maria Remarque
• Anna Seghers

Noted survivors

• Bruno Bettelheim
• Viktor Frankl
• Eugen Kogon
• Primo Levi
• Martin Niemöller
• Kurt Schumacher
• Franz von Papen
• Roman Polanski
• Elie Wiesel
• Arnulf Øverland