Hess was responsible for signing into law much of the government's legislation, including the notorious Nuremberg Laws of 1935, which effectively stripped the Jews of Germany of their civil rights. The wartime career of this cruel and capable man is captured brilliantly with contemporary fully captioned images in this Images of War series work. We'll examine how the homosexuality of SA leader Ernst Röhm, the drug addiction of Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring, and the disability of propagandist Josef Goebbels affected their fates, and see how Hitler's disaffection with Röhm brought about the latter's murder during the Nazi Party purge known as the 'Night of the Long Knives. Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler was another dreamer who drifted until he found his true religion in Hitler. With the exception of Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and Youth Leader Schirach, they held lower ranking positions mostly out of the public eye; in fact Eichmann and Mengele probably never even came to Hitler's attention, even as they implemented his policies.

But concerns about why this pin-up boy of the Nazi party had come to the country led to questions in the Irish parliament.The Wannsee Conference was chaired by SS and police official Reinhard Heydrich, during which he presented plans to finalize the deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe. Speer escaped execution at Nuremberg, Saukel didn't and I'm pretty sure that was because Speer was a much smoother, posher character than Saukel as opposed to their crimes.

Leader of the Austrian SS and subsequently of all police forces in Nazi Germany, Ernst Kaltenbrunner was a committed anti-Semite and fanatical Hitler loyalist. Our network of scholars and specialists span nearly every cultural capital around the world, and have expertise in thousands of focus areas. He was an independent broker of the Pact of Steel between Germany and Italy, and also the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.As minister for propaganda for the Third Reich, Joseph Goebbels wielded enormous power and influence. million people throughout the course of the holocaust, Hoess calmly explained his process during his war crimes trial. Instead of the 1,600 aircraft ready for combat that he claimed, he had initially only 200 outmoded machines and two bombers. Among his victims were those involved in the 1944 plot against Hitler and the White Rose resistance group (led by siblings Sophie and Hans Scholl).