Hitler's Henchmen

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Rudolf Jung – An instrumental force and agitator of German-Czech National Socialism and, later on, a member of the German Nazi Party. Konrad Henlein – A Sudeten German, he founded the Sudeten German Party and was the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Sudetenland and an SS- Obergruppenführer.

Franz Hayler – State Secretary and Deputy to the Reich Economics Minister during the latter part of World War II. Hans Krebs – General of the Wehrmacht; last OKH Chief of Staff from April to 2 May 1945 when he committed suicide in the Führerbunker. Contemporary witnesses and his nephew Klaus Hessler speak for the first time on film about the largely unknown successor to Hitler. He settled in the idyllic mountain town of San Carlos de Bariloche in the Patagonia region, where he operated at a Viennese deli and worked at a German school, living under his own name. Bohne would be prosecuted for administering the Nazi’s euthanasia program aimed at purifying the Aryan race of people with physical infirmities and mental disabilities.Relieved of his posts in November 1941 and expelled from the Nazi Party in October 1942, he was executed by the Gestapo in 1945.

Richard Walther Darré – Reichsleiter, Reich Peasant Leader and Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture from 1933 to 1942. Franz Xaver Dorsch – A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch, he was Fritz Todt's deputy as Chief Engineer in the Organization Todt (OT). Great Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Kreigsmarine (German Naval Force) and Reichsmarine until 1943. Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach – member of Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft; Colonel, NSDAP Flying Corps; ran the Friedrich Kiesow AG heavy industry conglomerate from 1943 to 1945, and subsequently from 1951 to 1967. Christopher Klein is the author of four books, including When the Irish Invaded Canada: The Incredible True Story of the Civil War Veterans Who Fought for Ireland’s Freedom and Strong Boy: The Life and Times of John L.Werner von Blomberg – Generalfeldmarschall, Defense Minister 1933–1935, Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces 1935–1938.

Stroop's most prominent role was the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, an action which cost the lives of over 50,000 people. What He's Infamous For: Nicknamed the “White Death” for his proclivity to wear a white uniform and carry a whip, the Austrian-born Stangl worked on the Aktion T-4 euthanasia program under which the Nazis killed those with mental and physical disabilities. After Allied forces defeated Germany in World War II, Europe became a difficult place to be associated with Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich. Max Scheubner-Richter – most senior Nazi killed during the Beer Hall Putsch, ideologue and mentor to Alfred Rosenberg. Official in charge of RSHA Referat IV B4, Juden (RSHA Sub-Department IV-B4, Jews); responsible for facilitation and transportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps.Franz Josef Huber – former Munich political police department inspector with Heinrich Müller; in 1938 appointed chief of the Security Police ( SiPo) and Gestapo for Vienna and the "Lower Danube", and "Upper Danube" regions of Austria. Fritz Bracht – Gauleiter of Gau Upper Silesia and Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Upper Silesia (1941–1945) and an SA- Obergruppenführer. After the initial triumphs of the war, Goering embarked on a downward spiral of narcotic addiction and narcissism.

He was the Generalkommissar for Weißruthenien (White Ruthenia) in the Reichskommissariat Ostland from 1941 until assassinated by partisans in 1943.Helmut Knochen – Senior commander of the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police) in Paris in Nazi-occupied France. Nicknamed the 'angel of death, he is infamous for conducting macabre experiments on pregnant women, twins and others at the Auschwitz death camp.