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| George C. Scott |
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George C. Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an American stage and film actor, director and producer. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, and as General Buck...
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US Marines | |||||
| 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 | United States Navy Reserve | ||||
| Frederick W. Smith |
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Frederick Wallace Smith (born August 11, 1944), 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 largest in the United...
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Captain | US Marines | ||||
| Albert L. Becker |
Albert Lilly Becker (December 3, 1911 - December 24, 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...
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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 HMAV 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 Cornish 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 (July 17, 1907 – October 11, 1943) was a submarine commander of the United States Navy during World War II. He was commander of USS Wahoo (SS-238) during its third through seventh patrols. Wahoo was one of the most-celebrated...
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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 |
Kurt Josef Waldheim (German pronunciation: [ˈkʊɐ̯t ˈvaldhaɪm]; 21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of...
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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 Marines | |||||
| 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 (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944), popularly known as the Desert Fox (Wüstenfuchs, listen (help·info)), was a German Field Marshal of World War II. He won the respect of both his own troops and the enemies he fought....
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Field Marshal | Wehrmacht | ||||
| Gotthard Heinrici |
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Gotthard Heinrici (25 December 1886 – 13 December 1971) was a general in the German Army during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords (German: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit...
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General | Wehrmacht | ||||
| Werner Goldberg |
Werner Goldberg (October 3, 1919 – September 28, 2004) was a German who was of part Jewish ancestry, or Mischling in Nazi terminology, who served briefly as a soldier during World War II and whose image appeared in a German newspaper as "The Ideal...
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Wehrmacht | ||||||
| George W. Bush |
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George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
Bush was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the eldest son...
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First Lieutenant | Texas Air National Guard | ||||
| Scott M. Miller | First Lieutenant | United States Army | 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) is a retired United States Navy four-star admiral who retired after serving for over 41 years. His last military assignment was as Commander, U.S. Central Command from March 2007 to March 2008. ADM...
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Admiral | United States Navy | ||||
| Alfred George Drake |
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Alfred George Drake VC (10 December 1893 – 23 November 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Drake...
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Corporal | The Rifle Brigade | ||||
| Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson |
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 Louverture pronunciation (help·info), also Toussaint Bréda, Toussaint-Louverture (c. 1743 – April 7, 1803) was the leader of the Haitian Revolution. His military genius and political acumen led to the establishment of...
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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 thirteenth president of South Korea (1988–1993).
Roh befriended Chun Doo-hwan while in high school...
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General | Republic of Korea Army | ||||
| Kim Jong-il |
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Kim Jong-il (born Yuri Irsenovich Kim; 16 February 1941; official biography claims 1942 – 17 December 2011) was the supreme leader of North Korea (DPRK) from 1994 to 2011. He succeeded his father and founder of the DPRK Kim Il-sung following the...
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Supreme Commander | Korean People's Army | Dec 18, 2011 | |||
| 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 |
Josh Rushing co-hosts Fault Lines, Al Jazeera English's flagship program about the Americas. As an international correspondent, Rushing has hosted and produced programs all over the world. So far in 2011 Rushing has filmed two Fault Lines episodes...
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Captain | US Marines | |||||
| Reinhard Heydrich |
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Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (help·info) (7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German Nazi official during World War II, and one of the main architects of the Holocaust. He was SS-Obergruppenführer (General) and General der Polizei,...
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Obergruppenführer | Schutzstaffel | ||||
| Rudolf Höss |
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also spelled Höß, sometimes spelled in English as Hoess; 25 November 1900 – 16 April 1947) was an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel), and from 4 May 1940 to November 1943 the first commandant of Auschwitz...
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Obersturmbannführer | Schutzstaffel | |||||
| Arthur Liebehenschel |
Arthur Liebehenschel (help·info) (25 November 1901 - 28 January 1948) was a commandant at the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps during World War II. He was convicted of war crimes after the war and executed.
Liebehenschel was born in Posen (now...
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SS-Totenkopfverbände | ||||||
| Richard Baer |
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Richard Baer (September 9, 1911 – June 17, 1963) was a German 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)...
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Sturmbannführer | Schutzstaffel | ||||
| Oswald Pohl |
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Oswald Ludwig Pohl (help·info) (30 June 1892 – 8 June 1951) was a Nazi official and member of the SS. He rose to the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer, and was involved in the administration of German concentration camps during the Second World War.
Pohl...
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Obergruppenführer | Schutzstaffel | ||||
| Heinrich Himmler |
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Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (pronounced [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈluˑɪtˌpɔlt ˈhɪmlɐ] ( listen) 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and the Minister of...
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Reichsführer-SS | Schutzstaffel | ||||
| Hermann Göring |
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Hermann Wilhelm Göring, (or Goering; German pronunciation: [ˈɡøːʁɪŋ] ( listen); 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. He was a veteran of World War I as an ace fighter...
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Field Marshal General | German Air Force | ||||
| Hermann Göring |
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Hermann Wilhelm Göring, (or Goering; German pronunciation: [ˈɡøːʁɪŋ] ( listen); 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. He was a veteran of World War I as an ace fighter...
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Gruppenführer | Sturmabteilung | ||||
| Yitzhak Rabin |
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Yitzhak Rabin (help·info) (Hebrew: יִצְחָק רַבִּין IPA: [jitsˈχak ʁaˈbin]; March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77 and...
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Chief Operations Officer | Haganah | ||||
| Yitzhak Rabin |
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Yitzhak Rabin (help·info) (Hebrew: יִצְחָק רַבִּין IPA: [jitsˈχak ʁaˈbin]; March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77 and...
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Chief of staff | Israel Defense Forces | ||||
| Ehud Barak |
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Ehud Barak (Hebrew: אהוד ברק (help·info); born Ehud Brog on 12 February 1942) is an Israeli politician who served as Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001. He was leader of the Labor Party until January 2011 and holds the posts of Minister of Defense and...
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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 (1953–58), he became a fighting symbol to the world of the new State of Israel. He...
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Ramatkal | Israel Defense Forces | 1953 | 1958 | ||
| Yigael Yadin |
Yigael Yadin (Hebrew: יִגָּאֵל יָדִין, born Yigael 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...
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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 (then part of the Russian Empire) as Yakov Dostrovsky (Russian: Яков Достровский), son of Tzvi and Myriam,...
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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 defected to the British Army. While a general on the American...
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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 defected to the British Army. While a general on the American...
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Brigadier General | British Army | ||||
| Theodore Roosevelt |
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Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt ( /ˈroʊzəvɛlt/ ROH-zə-velt; October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States of America (1901–1909). He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his...
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Colonel | United States Volunteers | ||||
| Charles de Gaulle |
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (English: /ˈtʃɑrlz/ or /ˈʃɑrl dəˈɡɔːl/; French: [ʃaʁl də ɡol] ( listen); 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...
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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 (1853–1857) and is the only President from New Hampshire. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" (a Northerner with Southern sympathies) who served in...
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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 the Province of Massachusetts Bay, he saw action in the French and Indian War with Rogers' Rangers. His...
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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 held 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. In 1998 he was appointed as Commander of the...
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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 (Lieutenant Colonel) 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...
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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 (Major) and Nazi official. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves (German: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub). The...
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Hauptsturmführer | Waffen-SS | ||||
| Ernst Röhm |
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Ernst Julius Günther Röhm, (November 28, 1887 – July 2, 1934) was a German officer in the Bavarian Army and later an early Nazi leader. He was a co-founder of the Sturmabteilung ("Storm Battalion"; SA), the Nazi Party militia, and later was its...
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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 Sturmabteilung ("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...
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Stabschef | Sturmabteilung | ||||
| Wilhelm Schepmann |
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Wilhelm Schepmann (17 June 1894 - 26 July 1970) was an SA general (Obergruppenführer) in Nazi Germany and the last Stabschef (Chief of Staff) of the Nazi Stormtroopers.
He succeeded Viktor Lutze as Stabschef (SA) after Lutze was killed in a car...
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Stabschef | Sturmabteilung | ||||
| Joseph Berchtold |
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Joseph Berchtold (March 6, 1897 in Ingolstadt – August 23, 1962 in Herrsching), 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...
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Reichsführer-SS | Schutzstaffel | ||||
| Erhard Heiden |
Erhard Heiden (b. Weiler, February 23, 1901 – c. 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...
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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 (Gauleiter) of Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945 and as the final Reichsführer-SS for a few...
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Reichsführer-SS | Schutzstaffel | |||||
| Martin Bormann |
Martin Ludwig Bormann (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945?) was a prominent Nazi official. He became head of the Party Chancellery (Parteikanzlei) and private secretary to Adolf Hitler. He gained Hitler's trust and derived immense power within the Third...
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Obergruppenführer | Schutzstaffel | |||||
