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Hermann Göring

BACKGROUND:Born- January 12th 1893

Death- October 16th 1946

Middle Class

Military School

Charming, intelligent

Loud + Greedy

WW1

Hermann Göring- ROLE WITHIN THE NAZI PARTY AND HOW HE HELPED THEM RISE TO POWER

Joined Nazi Party in 1922

1923, Goering became leader of the SA

Job?

Hitler Relation

Took part in the Munich putsch

Parliamentary seat

Became president of the Reichstag

Contacted big businesses, army officers to improve and develop their relationships.

Goering announced the Gestapo in 1933

Concentration Camps

Hermann Göring- ROLE IN THE PERSECUTION AND PROTECTION DURING WW21938- Goering eliminated Jews

1935- The Luftwaffe (Nazi air force) was founded

Took part in war crimes, cruel acts of physical violence, persecution of people and conducted human experiments.

Reinhard Heydrich - Background (1904-1942)

Born to a pianist and opera singer

Depressed childhood

Nicknames: The Blond Beast/Hangman Heydrich/Young Evil God of Death/ The Butcher of Prague

Personality: had insatiable greed for power

Lack of human compassion

Cold, calculating manipulator

Reinhard Heydrich- Role within the Nazi Party

Encouraged by his wife - Lina von Osten

Joined the Nazi Party in June 1931

Interviewed by Heinrich Himmler

Became a SS member in August

SS Major Dec 1931

SS Colonel July 1932

SS Brigadier General

March 1933

Chief of the Bavarian Police

1933

Reinhard Heydrich- His contribution to the Nazi

Formed the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) - SS Security

Took command of Gestapo in April 1934

planned out the Night of the Long Knives

Reinhard Heydrich- During WW2

Aided Hitler to invade Poland in 1939

Was ordered to create a ‘solution to the Jewish Question’

Established the Einsatzgruppen

Called up The Wannsee Conference

Rohm - Background-Born 28/9/1887

-Death 30/5/1934

-WW1

-Personality

Rohm - Role Within Nazi Party- Germans Worker Party

- Full Support of Hitler

- Founder of the SA

- Beer Hall Putsch

Rohm - How they helped nazis rise to power-SA

- 3 Million Strong

-Spread the word of the Nazi Party

Joseph Goebbels - BackgroundBorn: October 29th, 1897 in Rheydt, Germany

Died: May 1st, 1945 in Berlin, Germany

Rejected for military service during WWI due to crippled foot

Personality: Bitter, solitary, reclusive

How he died: Shot by an SS orderly along with his wife

Joseph Goebbels - Role within Party

National director of propaganda for the Nazis

- Create a Fuhrer myth around Hitler to convert people to Nazism

- Design posters, publish propaganda pieces

- Use his bodyguards to start street battles

Joseph Goebbels- Contribution to power

- Organized a boycott of Jewish business

- Led the Burning of Books

- Forced Jews to deport East (The Jewish question)

Joseph Goebbels- WW2- Built up hatred for allies

- Made attempts to dismiss Joachim von Ribbentro from office.

- Encouraged Hitler to invade Soviet Union

- Advocated terror bombings of Britain

Heinrich Himmler - Background

- Conservative Roman-Catholic family, born in Munich

- Awkward, studious, organised, patriotic

- Dreamed of service on the front as an officer

- Agriculture student

- National Political Activist when university ended

Heinrich Himmler - Role within Nazi Party - Head of the SS

- Took control of German Police forces

- President of police

- Gestapo

The SS logo The Gestapo badge

Heinrich Himmler - Contribution to Nazi power

- Night of Long Knives

- Concentration camps

- SS - powerful

- GestapoHimmler

Concentration Camps

Heinrich Himmler - WW2- Minister of Interior

- Controlled civil service, national police, secret police

- “Final Solution” (Holocaust)

- Concentration camps - extermination

- Attempted to surrender

A Gas chamber

Rudolf Hess - Background Born: April 26 1894

Died: August 17 1987 (suicide)

In 1920 he became the 16th member of the Nazi Party

Hitler appointed him deputy in 1939

Personality: declared insane, cold, intelligent, organised

Rudolf Hess - Role within the Nazi Party / How they came to power - Hess was devoted to Hitler

- Believer that Germany was ‘’stabbed in the back’’

- Hess joined the NSDAP

- Imprisoned with Hitler

- Became Deputy Fuhrer in 1933

Rudolf Hess - Their role in the persecution & protection during WW2- Organised Nuremberg Rallies

- Helped in the persecution of the Jews

- Partly Responsible for drafting the Nuremberg Laws

- Hess was number 2 to succeed Hitler

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