Hitler's Henchmen

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Hitler's Henchmen is the most comprehensive film series ever produced on Nazi Germany and its leaders. In six parts series portrays the men who aided Adolf Hitler in his rise to power and serviced the infernal machinery of the Third Reich. Meticulously researched, it offers an unrivalled insight into the secret lives of the men of the Nazi elite. Walther Schellenberg – SS- Brigadeführer who rose through the SS as Heydrich's deputy. In March 1942, he became Chief of Department VI, SD-foreign branch, which, by then, was a department of the RSHA. Later, following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944, he became head of all foreign intelligence. It was in June 1941 that Himmler was entrusted with the administration of the conquered territory with the aim being to destroy the Soviet system. Miller, Michael D.; Schulz, Andreas (2017). Gauleiter: The Regional Leaders of the Nazi Party and Their Deputies, 1925–1945. Vol.2 (Georg Joel – Dr. Bernhard Rust). R. James Bender Publishing. ISBN 978-1932970326. Half warmonger, half comedian Goering more than any of the Dictator's other aides, embodied the face of the Nazi regime.

Hans Schemm – A Gauleiter in Bavaria from 1928 and Head of the National Socialist Teachers League. Died in a plane crash in 1935. Franz Hayler – State Secretary and Deputy to the Reich Economics Minister during the latter part of World War II. Karl Wolff – SS- Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS. He became Chief of Personal Staff to the Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler) and SS Liaison Officer to Hitler until his replacement in 1943. From 1943 to 1945, Wolff was the Supreme SS and Police Leader of the 'Italien' area. By 1945 Wolff was acting military commander of Italy, and in that capacity negotiated the surrender of all the forces in the Southwest Front. Walter Rauff – SS- Standartenführer and aide to Reinhard Heydrich. He escaped captivity at the end of the war, subsequently working for the Syrian Intelligence. Karl Röver – He was Gauleiter of Gau Weser-Ems and Reichsstatthalter of both Oldenburg and Bremen until his death in 1942. He was also an Obergruppenführer in both the SA and the NSKK.Franz Kutschera – Gauleiter of Reichsgau Carinthia (1939–1941); an SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei, he was an SS and police leader in the General Government until he was assassinated in 1944. Ludwig Müller – Appointed “Reich Bishop” he was the leader of the German Christians and sought to unify all 28 Protestant regional churches into a unified “Reich Church” under authoritarian and anti-Semitic Nazi principles. Otto Dietrich – Reichsleiter, Reich Press Chief, Vice-President of the Reich Press Chamber, State Secretary in the Ministry of Propaganda and an SS- Obergruppenführer. Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk – Reich Minister of Finance (1932–1945) and "Leading Minister" of the last cabinet of the Third Reich under Reich President Großadmiral Karl Dönitz.

Rudolf Hess (not to be confused with Rudolf Höß) – Reichsleiter, SS- Obergruppenführer and Deputy Führer to Hitler until his flight to Scotland on the eve of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Walter Buch – Jurist, Reichsleiter, Chairman of the Uschla 1927–1933 and Supreme Party Judge 1934–1945. He was an SS- Obergruppenführer. Speer gave shape to the ideology of the Brown Shirts in stone and concrete, placed art under the banner of the Swastika and recruited an entire population for the munitions industry. Franz Schlegelberger – Jurist and State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice (1931–1941) he became Acting Reich Minister of Justice (1941–1942).Himmler, the enforcer with his SS brigades was the most powerful of all Hitler's aides as well as being the most ruthless. Newly released secret documents from domestic and foreign archives illuminate Goering's many-faceted brutal personality. Franz Seldte – Leader of Der Stahlhelm under the Weimar Republic, he was Reich Minister for Labour from 1933 to 1945.

Kurt Meyer – SS- Brigadeführer; Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; commanded 1st SS Reconnaissance Battalion (LSSAH); later commanded 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. Arthur Greiser – Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of Reichsgau Wartheland from 1939 to 1945, he was an Obergruppenfuhrer in both the SS and the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK). Hans Lammers – Head of the Reich Chancellery and Reich Minister without portfolio. He was also an SS- Obergruppenführer.

Friedrich Buchardt – Member of the Einsatzgruppen death squads, who started off grading people on their Germanness and then progressed to outright genocide. Attributed to having been responsible for sending tens of thousands to their deaths, avoided justice by working for the Allied powers as an "Intelligence Source" on the Soviets.

Members of the SS, or any of Adolf Hitler's staff, are often called "Hitler's Henchmen", [6] a phrase used as the title of a book by Guido Knopp and a television documentary. Hugo Jury – Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Lower Danube; Landeshauptmann of Lower Austria; SS- Obergruppenführer. Wilhelm Ohnesorge – State Secretary from 1933 and Reich Minister (1937–1945) in the Reich Postal Ministry. He was an Obergruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Korps (NSKK). Robert Ritter von Greim – Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall and last Luftwaffe Commander-in-Chief succeeding the deposed Hermann Göring in the last days of World War II.Otto Meissner – Minister of State; Head of the Presidential Chancellery under Hitler (and Friedrich Ebert and Paul von Hindenburg, the last Reich Presidents of the Weimar Republic). Rudolf Rahn – A diplomat, he was the General Plenipotentiary to the Italian puppet state from September 1943 to April 1945. Considered for prosecution in the Ministries Trial, he was eventually exonerated. Below, a list of some of the most notorious Nazi war criminals who made their way to South America. 1. Adolf Eichmann Julius Lippert – Nazi activist and propaganda official who supervised the 1936 Summer Olympics in Germany. Hermann Fegelein – An SS- Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS, he was married to Eva Braun’s sister, Gretl. The SS Liaison Officer to Hitler’s headquarters, he was shot for desertion in April 1945.