hitler's friends
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Social Studies WorkshopTeacher: Mauricio Torres
Heinrich Himmler
• Chief of German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior– This meant he was in charge of the
administration of the Waffen-SS (Hilter’s own private army), the army, and the police services.
– Hitler called him "der treue Heinrich" (the loyal Heinrich).
– Easily considered the most powerful man in Germany, after Hitler.
– One of the people most directly responsible for the Holocaust.
Heinrich Himmler
Herman Göring
• Hitler designated him as his successor and deputy in all his offices.– A veteran of World War I as an
ace fighter pilot.– He founded the Gestapo in
1933. – Göring was appointed
commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe (air force) in 1935, a position he held until the final days of World War II.
Herman Göring
Joseph Goebbels
• Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany– One of Adolf Hitler's closest
associates and most devout followers.
– Known for his zealous orations and visceral and homicidal antisemitism.
– Goebbels remained with Hitler in Berlin to the end.
Joseph Goebbels
Martin Bormann
• Private secretary to Adolf Hitler. – He gained Hitler's trust and
derived immense power within the Third Reich by using his position to control the flow of information and access to Hitler.
– He was almost always at his Führer s side. ′
Martin Bormann
Albert Speer
• Chief architect of Nazi Germany.– Minister of Armaments and
War Production for the Third Reich.
– As "the Nazi who said sorry”, he accepted moral responsibility at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs for complicity in crimes of the Nazi regime.
Wilhelm Keitel
• Head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht– One of Germany's most senior
military leaders during World War II.
– The only one present at Wolf's Lair assassination plot not to suffer a perforated eardrum from the bomb blast.
Wilhelm Keitel
Alfred Jodl
• Chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht– Signed the unconditional
surrender of Germany.
Alfred Jodl