Other Noteworthy Nazis (You know…the guys doing stuff while Hitler is off giving speeches)

Hermann Goering Efficient organizer and highly successful leader of the SA Leader of the Luftwaffe (and highly decorated WWI pilot) Accumulated great wealth during WWII, had six palatial estates, and collected art Official successor to Hitler, so even if Hitler dies he must still be dealt with

Rudolf Hess Next in line after Goering to succeed Hitler as Führer Helped Hitler write Mein Kampf while he was in prison following the Beer Hall Putsch Incredibly loyal to the Reich and to Hitler

Heinrich Himmler Marched with Hitler at the Beer Hall Putsch Organizer and leader of SS Ruthless military genius Had direct command over the destruction of the Jews His hobby was planting herb gardens

Josef Goebbels Failed professor and an expert in propaganda Known for successfully promoting blatant lies as truth using the radio and press; he also organized Hitler’s rallies and meetings Though he promoted Aryan virtues, he was dark, short, weak, and club footed Turned Hitler into the “hero and savior” of Germany

Adolf Eichmann Planned the details of the Holocaust; assigned to do so by Himmler and Heydrich Member of both the SA and SS, but was never a public figure in Germany Brought to trial in 1961 (captured in Argentina by Israeli Mossad operatives in 1960) which brought the Holocaust back into the public eye; hanged in 1962

Reinhard Heydrich Heydrich dreamed of power Many of the other Nazis were genuinely afraid of him and believed he would force his installation as the next Führer after Hitler Known for murder and blackmail as head of the Gestapo and SD (internal security wing of the SS) Assassinated by a Czech car bomb in 1942