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Revision as of 17:22, 11 December 2010
- See also changes related to Holocaust, or pages that link to Holocaust or to this page or whose text contains "Holocaust".
Parent topics
- Antisemitism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Genocide [r]: The deliberate killing or other destruction of a large group, membership in which is a broad criterion such as ethnicity or religion rather than individual acts [e]
- Nazi race and biological ideology [r]: The policies of Nazi Germany, based on the views of Adolf Hitler, which emphasized encouraging the breeding of what he considered to be a superior race and preventing the breeding, or actively killing, what he considered subhuman [e]
- Adolf Hitler [r]: (1889–1945) Politician in Germany; became 1921 Nazi Party leader, 1933 Reichskanzler (Chancellor), then 1934 as der Führer dictator before and during World War II. [e]
Subtopics
Policy
- Nuremberg Laws [r]: Nazi Germany's principal racial legislation were called the Nuremberg Laws [e]
- Wannsee Conference [r]: Nazi meeting in January 1942 to plan the killing of 11 million Jews of Europe, now known as the Holocaust. [e]
General organizations and leaders
- Chancellery of the Fuehrer [r]: Personal administrative secretariat of Adolf Hitler as Fuehrer; headed by Philip Bouhler; directed some secret projects such as the Nazi euthanasia program [e]
- Philip Bouhler [r]: (1899-1945) Business manager of early Nazi Party; Head of the Chancellery of the Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler's personal office; key manager of the Nazi euthanasia program; committed suicide at war's end [e]
- Chancellery of the Nazi Party [r]: Top-level secretariat of the Nazi Party; headed by Philip Bouhler [e]
- Martin Bormann [r]: German Nazi administrator, little-known to the public but became immensely powerful as the head of Adolf Hitler's personal office, the Chancellery of the Nazi Party, essentially controlling access to him. [e]
- Chancellery of the Reich [r]: State, not Nazi Party, secretariat for Nazi Germany and the Reich Cabinet headed by Hans Lammers; may also refer to the office building for the Chancelleries [e]
- Reich Minister for the East and Occupied Territories [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alfred Rosenberg [r]: Early Nazi Party member and philopsopher, later Minister for the occupied territories on the Eastern Front; tried and executed by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
SS
- WVHA [r]: The economic and administrative organization of Nazi Germany's SS, whose responsibilities included the actual operation of concentration camps [e]
- Oswald Pohl [r]: SS-Obergruppenfuehrer, Waffen SS; Head of the SS WVHA; and its Amtsgruppe W; executed by verdict of the Pohl Case (NMT) [e]
- Inspector of Concentration Camps [r]: Amt (Office) "D" of the WVHA, with direct responsibility for the Nazi concentration camps, although some independent action was taken through the chain of command of RSHA personnel, primarily Gestapo, assigned to the camps [e]
- RSHA [r]: Nazi Germany's Reich Main Security Organization, a division of the SS, first headed by Reinhard Heydrich and then Ernst Kaltenbrunner; included the Gestapo and SD [e]
- Reinhard Heydrich [r]: First commander of the RSHA of the SS, then Nazi Protector of Bohemia and Moravia until his assassination [e]
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner [r]: Second commander of the Reich Main Security Administration (RSHA) of the SS of Nazi Germany; executed for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- RuSHA [r]: Main Race and Settlement Office (Rasse-und Siedlungshauptamt), part of the RSHA of the SS; responsible both for development of implementation policy for Nazi race and biological ideology and examining individuals to determine their Nazi racial classification; the focus of the RuSHA Case of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, which also judged three related organizations [e]
- Gestapo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- SD [r]: Add brief definition or description
Facilities and field units
- Nazi euthanasia program [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Einsatzgruppe [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Concentration camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extermination camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
Personnel
Top leadership
RSHA
- Reinhard Heydrich [r]: First commander of the RSHA of the SS, then Nazi Protector of Bohemia and Moravia until his assassination [e]
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner [r]: Second commander of the Reich Main Security Administration (RSHA) of the SS of Nazi Germany; executed for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
Gestapo
Einstatzgruppen
- Paul Blobel [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Otto Ohlendorf [r]: Add brief definition or description
WVHA
- Oswald Pohl [r]: SS-Obergruppenfuehrer, Waffen SS; Head of the SS WVHA; and its Amtsgruppe W; executed by verdict of the Pohl Case (NMT) [e]
HSSPF
- Odilo Globocnik [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Erich von Bach-Zelewski [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jurgen Stroop [r]: Add brief definition or description
Medical
Legal
- International Control Commission [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Military Tribunal (Nurremberg) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nuremberg Military Tribunals [r]: Add brief definition or description