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| George C. Scott |
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George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an Academy Award-winning American stage and film actor, director, and producer. He was best known for his bravura stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in...
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United States Marine Corps | ||||
| John Tufts |
John Marshall Tufts was a professor of English Literature at Western Connecticut State University, and a decorated submarine combat veteran in the Pacific Theater in WWII.
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Lieutenant Commander | United States Navy Reserve | ||||
| Frederick W. Smith |
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Frederick Wallace Smith (born August 11, 1944, in Marks, Mississippi), or Fred Smith, is the founder, chairman, president, and CEO of FedEx, originally known as Federal Express, the first overnight express delivery company in the world, and the...
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Captain | United States Marine Corps | |||
| Albert L. Becker |
Albert Lilly Becker (died 1992) was an American naval officer during World War II who served as the first commander of the USS Cobia (SS-245), a Gato-class submarine, during its initial five wartime patrols in the Pacific ocean .
Albert Lilly...
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Lieutenant Commander | United States Navy | ||||
| William Bligh |
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Vice-Admiral William Bligh FRS RN (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. A notorious mutiny occurred during his command of HMS Bounty in 1789; Bligh and his loyal men made a...
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Vice Admiral | Royal Navy | |||
| John Adams |
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John Adams (4 December 1767 – 5 March 1829) was the last survivor of the Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in January 1790, the year after the mutiny. His real name was John Adams; He used the name Alexander Smith until he was...
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Royal Navy | ||||
| Matthew Quintal |
Matthew Quintal (3 March 1766 in Padstow, Cornwall – 1799, Pitcairn Island) was an English able seaman and mutineer aboard HMS Bounty. His surname was, in all probability, the result of mis-spelling the Cornish surname "Quintrell". He was the last...
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Able Seaman | Royal Navy | ||||
| Dudley W. Morton |
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Dudley Walker Morton (17 July 1907 – 11 October 1943) was a submarine commander of the United States Navy during World War II.
"Mush" Morton was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, 17 July 1907, and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1930. There he...
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Commander | United States Navy | |||
| Okuda Shoji |
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Petty Officer Shoji Okuda, served as an aerial observer in the Imperial Japanese Navy on a floatplane Yokosuka E14Y that was launched from a long-range submarine aircraft carrier, the I-25.
Together with pilot Nobuo Fujita, he participated in a...
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Petty Officer | Imperial Japanese Navy | |||
| Kurt Waldheim |
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Kurt Josef Waldheim (21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. While running for President in Austria...
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Lieutenant | Sturmabteilung | |||
| James W. Robinson, Jr. |
James William "Jim" Robinson, Jr. (August 30, 1940–April 11, 1966) was an American soldier and a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor. Robinson earned the award while serving with the U.S. Army in Vietnam. He was a Sergeant (E-5) in the...
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Sergeant | US Marine Corps | ||||
| James W. Robinson, Jr. |
James William "Jim" Robinson, Jr. (August 30, 1940–April 11, 1966) was an American soldier and a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor. Robinson earned the award while serving with the U.S. Army in Vietnam. He was a Sergeant (E-5) in the...
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United States Army | |||||
| Erwin Rommel |
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Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel ( listen (help·info)) (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) (known as the Desert Fox, Wüstenfuchs, listen (help·info)), was perhaps the most famous German Field Marshal of World War II.
He was a highly decorated officer...
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Field Marshal | Wehrmacht | |||
| Gotthard Heinrici |
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Gotthardt Heinrici (December 25, 1886 – December 13, 1971) was a general in the German Army during World War II.
Heinrici was born in Gumbinnen (now Gusev), East Prussia, on Christmas Day, 1886. Few details are known about Heinrici's personal life....
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General | Wehrmacht | |||
| Werner Goldberg |
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Werner Goldberg (October 3, 1919 – September 28, 2004) was a half-Jewish German (Mischlinge in Nazi terminology) who served briefly as a soldier during World War II and whose image appeared in a German newspaper as "The Ideal German Soldier".
Werner...
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Wehrmacht | ||||
| George W. Bush |
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George Walker Bush ( /ˈdʒɔrdʒ ˈwɔːkər ˈbʊʃ/ (help·info); born July 6, 1946) was the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
Bush is the eldest son of George H. W. Bush (the 41st...
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First Lieutenant | Texas Air National Guard | |||
| Scott M. Miller | First Lieutenant | U.S. 1st Infantry Division | |||||
| Roman Panchenko |
First military person to receive the Order of Lenin Medal.
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Red Army | |||||
| Norman Mailer |
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Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director.
Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe,...
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United States Army | ||||
| William J. Fallon |
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William Joseph Fallon, (born December 30, 1944), was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy who retired after serving for over 41 years. He served as Commander of the U.S. Central Command from March 2007 to March 2008. ADM Fallon was the...
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Admiral | United States Navy | |||
| Alfred George Drake |
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Alfred George Drake VC (1893 - 23 November 1915) was a British soldier during the First World War, and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award of the British Commonwealth for gallantry "in the face of the enemy".
Drake was born...
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Corporal | The Rifle Brigade | |||
| Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson |
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Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (January 4, 1890 – January 1, 1968) was an American pulp magazine writer and entrepreneur who pioneered the American comic book, publishing the first such periodical consisting solely of original material rather than...
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Major | United States Army | |||
| Charles Beames | Colonel | United States Air Force | |||||
| Toussaint Louverture |
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François-Dominique Toussaint L'ouverture pronunciation (help·info), also Toussaint Bréda, Toussaint-Louverture (May 20, 1743–April 8, 1803) was a leader of the Haitian Revolution. Born in Saint Domingue, in a long struggle for independence...
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General | Haitian Rebellion of 1891 | |||
| Roh Tae-woo |
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Roh Tae-woo (Korean pronunciation: [no tʰɛ.u]; born December 4, 1932 in Daegu, South Korea, is a former ROK Army general and politician. He was the 13th president of South Korea (1988–1993).
Roh befriended Chun Doo-hwan while in high school in Daegu...
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General | Republic of Korea Army | |||
| Kim Jong-il |
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Kim Jong-il (also written as Kim Jong Il, Korean: 김정일; born 16 February 1941; official biographies state 16 February 1942) is the paramount leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (also known as North Korea). He is the Chairman of the...
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Supreme Commander | Korean People's Army | |||
| Hal Clement |
Harry Clement Stubbs (May 30, 1922 – October 29, 2003) better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre.
Stubbs was born in Somerville, Massachusetts and died in...
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Colonel | Eighth Air Force | ||||
| Josh Rushing |
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Josh Rushing is a former United States Marine Captain who was a press officer for United States Central Command (CENTCOM) during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. He became famous for his appearance in the documentary Control Room, which documented his...
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Captain | United States Marine Corps | |||
| Reinhard Heydrich |
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Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (March 7, 1904 – June 4, 1942) was an SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, chief of the Reich Main Security Office (including the Gestapo, SD and Kripo Nazi police agencies) and Stellvertretender...
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Obergruppenführer | Schutzstaffel | |||
| Rudolf Höß |
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Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höß (in English commonly Hoess or Höss; November 25, 1900 – April 16, 1947) was an SS-Obersturmbannführer and from May 4, 1940 to November 1943 was the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, where it is estimated...
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Obersturmbannführer | Schutzstaffel | |||
| Arthur Liebehenschel |
Arthur Liebehenschel (25 November 1901 - 28 January 1948) was a commandant of the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps during World War II.
Liebehenschel was born in Posen (Poznań) and studied economics and public administration. He became a sergeant...
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SS-Totenkopfverbände | |||||
| Arthur Liebehenschel |
Arthur Liebehenschel (25 November 1901 - 28 January 1948) was a commandant of the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps during World War II.
Liebehenschel was born in Posen (Poznań) and studied economics and public administration. He became a sergeant...
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Schutzstaffel | |||||
| Richard Baer |
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Richard Baer (September 9, 1911 – June 17, 1963) was a Nazi official with the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer (major) and commander of the Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to February 1945. He was a member of N.S.D.A.P. (no. 454991) and the...
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Sturmbannführer | Schutzstaffel | |||
| Oswald Pohl |
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Oswald Pohl (30 June 1892 - 7 June 1951) was a Nazi official and member of the SS (with a rank of SS-Obergruppenführer), involved in the mass murders of Jews in concentration camps, the so-called Final Solution.
Pohl was born in Duisburg-Ruhrort as...
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Obergruppenführer | Schutzstaffel | |||
| Heinrich Himmler |
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Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( listen (help·info) 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945), one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, served as Chief of the German Police and Minister of the Interior. As Reichsführer-SS, he oversaw all internal and external...
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Reichsführer-SS | Schutzstaffel | |||
| Hermann Göring |
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Hermann Wilhelm Göring (also spelled Goering) ( listen) (12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader and a leading member of the Nazi Party. Among many offices, he was Hitler's designated successor and commander of...
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Field Marshal General | German Air Force | |||
| Hermann Göring |
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Hermann Wilhelm Göring (also spelled Goering) ( listen) (12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader and a leading member of the Nazi Party. Among many offices, he was Hitler's designated successor and commander of...
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Gruppenführer | Sturmabteilung | |||
| Yitzhak Rabin |
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Yitzhak Rabin (help·info) (Hebrew: יִצְחָק רַבִּין ) (1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–1977 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995....
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Chief Operations Officer | Haganah | |||
| Yitzhak Rabin |
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Yitzhak Rabin (help·info) (Hebrew: יִצְחָק רַבִּין ) (1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–1977 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995....
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Chief of staff | Israel Defense Forces | |||
| Ehud Barak |
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Ehud Barak (Hebrew: אֵהוּד בָּרָק (help·info), born Ehud Brog on 12 February 1942) is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minister, and current Minister of Defense, deputy prime minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party.
Barak served as the 10th...
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Ramatkal | Israel Defense Forces | |||
| Moshe Dayan |
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Moshe Dayan, (Hebrew: משה דיין, 20 May 1915 – 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. The fourth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958), he became a fighting symbol to the world of the new State of Israel....
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Ramatkal | Israel Defense Forces | |||
| Yigael Yadin |
Yigael Yadin (Hebrew: יגאל ידין, born Yigal Sukenik (Hebrew: יגאל סוקניק) on 21 March 1917, died 28 June 1984) was an Israeli archeologist, politician, and the second Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
Yadin was born in 1917 to noted...
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Ramatkal | Israel Defense Forces | ||||
| Yaakov Dori |
Yaakov Dori (1899–1973) (Hebrew: יעקב דורי) was the first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Born in the present day Ukraine as Yakov Dostrovsky (Russian: Яков Достровский),son of Tzvi and Myriam, his family emigrated to Ottoman...
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Ramatkal | Israel Defense Forces | ||||
| Benedict Arnold |
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Benedict Arnold V (January 14, 1741 [O.S. January 3, 1740] – June 14, 1801) was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but switched sides to the British Empire. While he was still a...
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Major General | Continental Army | |||
| Benedict Arnold |
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Benedict Arnold V (January 14, 1741 [O.S. January 3, 1740] – June 14, 1801) was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but switched sides to the British Empire. While he was still a...
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Brigadier General | British Army | |||
| Theodore Roosevelt |
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Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919; pronounced /ˈroʊzəvɛlt/) was the 26th President of the United States. He is well remembered for his energetic persona, his range of interests and achievements, his leadership of the Progressive...
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Colonel | United States Volunteers | |||
| Charles de Gaulle |
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (French pronunciation: [də ˈɡoːl] ( listen), English: /də ˈɡɔːl/; 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the...
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Brigadier General | Free French Forces | |||
| Franklin Pierce |
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Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857, an American politician and lawyer. To date, he is the only President from New Hampshire.
Pierce was a Democrat and a ...
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Brigadier General | United States Volunteers | |||
| Moses Hazen |
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Moses Hazen (June 1, 1733 – February 5, 1803), was a Brigadier General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Born in Massachusetts, he saw action in the French and Indian War with Rogers' Rangers before settling outside...
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Brigadier General | Continental Army | |||
| Edward Leonard Ellington |
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Edward Leonard Ellington GCB, CMG, CBE (30 December 1877 – 13 June 1967) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force. He served as Chief of the Air Staff from 1933 to 1937, then as Inspector General of the RAF...
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Major-General | Royal Air Force | ||||
| Elmar Mäder |
Elmar Theodor Mäder (born 28 July 1963) was the thirty-third and former Commandant of the Pontifical Swiss Guards. He holds the rank of colonel in the Guards.
Mäder was born in Niederuzwil, Switzerland, Europe. He grew up in Zuzwil in the canton of...
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Colonel | Swiss Guard | ||||
| Alois Estermann |
Alois Estermann (October 29, 1954 - May 4, 1998) was a senior officer of the Swiss Guard who was murdered in his apartment in the Vatican City.
Estermann was born in Gunzwil, in the Canton of Lucerne.
According to official Vatican statements,...
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Swiss Guard | |||||
| Hans Dorr |
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Hans Dorr (April 7, 1912 – April 17, 1945) was a German Waffen-SS Obersturmbannführer who served with the 5. SS-Panzer-Division Wiking and was a commander of the SS-Regiment Germania. He was wounded 16 times during WWII and died at a Field hospital...
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Obersturmbannführer | Waffen-SS | |||
| Heinz Macher |
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Heinz Macher (December 31, 1919 - December 21, 2001) was an SS-Sturmbannführer and Nazi official. He was born in Chemnitz, Germany and joined the Nazi party in the early 1940s.
Macher led a group of 15 SS specialists who were ordered by Heinrich...
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Hauptsturmführer | Waffen-SS | |||
| Ernst Röhm |
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Ernst Julius Röhm, (November 28, 1887 – July 2, 1934) was an Imperial German army officer and later a Nazi leader. He was a co-founder of the Sturmabteilung ("Storm Battalion"; SA), the Nazi Party militia and later was the SA commander. In 1934, he...
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Stabschef | Sturmabteilung | |||
| Viktor Lutze |
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Viktor Lutze (December 28, 1890–May 2, 1943) was the commander of the SA succeeding Ernst Röhm as Stabschef.
Lutze was born in Bevergern, Westphalia, the son of a peasant craftsman. After a short career in the post office, he joined the German Army...
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Stabschef | Sturmabteilung | |||
| Wilhelm Schepmann |
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Wilhelm Schepmann (17 June 1894 - 26 July 1970) was an SA officer (Obergruppenführer) in Nazi Germany.
He succeeded Viktor Lutze as Stabschef SA after Lutze was killed in a car accident. He began working to restore the morale within and the esteem...
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Stabschef | Sturmabteilung | |||
| Joseph Berchtold |
Joseph Berchtold (March 6, 1897 – August 23, 1962), a former stationery salesman, succeeded Julius Schreck as Reichsführer SS in 1926. He was the last surviving person to hold that position and the only one to survive World War II.
Berchtold served...
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Reichsführer-SS | Schutzstaffel | ||||
| Erhard Heiden |
Erhard Heiden (b. Weiler, February 23, 1901 – September 1933) was an early member of the Nazi Party and the third commander of the Schutzstaffel (SS). Heiden was a Nazi stormtrooper who, in 1925, joined a small stormtrooper bodyguard unit known as...
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Reichsführer-SS | Schutzstaffel | ||||
| Karl Hanke |
Karl August Hanke (24 August 1903 - 8 June 1945) was an official of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party or NSDAP). He served as Governor and Region Leader (Gauleiter) of Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945 and as the final...
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Reichsführer-SS | Schutzstaffel | ||||
