Hitler's Henchmen

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Rudolf Diels – Protégé of Hermann Göring. First Chief of the Gestapo from 26 April 1933 to 20 April 1934. An SS- Oberführer, he was the Regierungspräsident (District President) of the Cologne district (1934–1936) and the Hanover district (1936–1942). His Path to South America: After World War II, Mengele spent three-plus years in hiding in Germany. In 1949, with the help of a Catholic clergy member, the “Angel of Death” fled via Italy to Argentina where he owned a mechanical equipment shop and remarried under his own name in Uruguay in 1958. The doctor lived in various Buenos Aires suburbs, but after hearing of Eichmann’s capture, went underground, first in Paraguay, then in Brazil. Franz Xaver Schwarz – Reichsleiter, National Treasurer of the NSDAP 1925–1945 and head of the Reichszeugmeisterei or National Material Control Office. Promoted to SS- Oberstgruppenführer in 1944.

Heinz Auerswald – Commissioner for the Jewish residential district in Warsaw from April 1941 to November 1942. Otto Hellmuth – Gauleiter of Gau Mainfranken and an Obergruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK). Erhard Milch – A Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftwaffe, he was State Secretary of the Reich Aviation Ministry from its inception in 1933, Inspector-General of the Luftwaffe from 1939 and its Chief of Procurement, Armaments & Supply from 1941.

He was called to see his attorney, and as we left the cell he reverted to his usually pose of jocularity for the benefit of the guards and any prisoners who might be listening. Franz Seldte – Leader of Der Stahlhelm under the Weimar Republic, he was Reich Minister for Labour from 1933 to 1945. Roland Freisler – State Secretary of Adolf Hitler's Reich Ministry of Justice; President of the Volksgerichtshof (People's Court) from 1942 to 1945; sentenced hundreds of people to death, including Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl and various members of the July 20 Plot; killed while returning to the courthouse to collect some files during an air raid on Berlin. Oskar Dirlewanger – A SS- Oberführer and war criminal, he commanded the SS- Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger consisting of amnestied Germans convicted of major crimes.

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. Max Amann – Reichsleiter for the Press, President of the Reich Press Chamber and head of the Nazi publishing house Eher Verlag. He was also an SS- Obergruppenführer.Wilhelm Grimm – Reichsleiter; Chairman of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Party Court 1932–1939 and an SS- Gruppenführer. Died in a car accident in 1944. Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger – Obergruppenführer in the SA and SS. The Higher SS and Police Leader in the General Government from 1939–1943, he was responsible for multiple acts of genocide.

Franz Gürtner – Minister of Justice in Bavaria (1922–1932) he became Reich Minister of Justice from 1932 to his death in 1941. Leni Riefenstahl – German photographer, actress and film director who, in close collaboration with the Nazi Party, produced major films of Nazi propaganda, including Triumph of the Will and Olympia. Below, a list of some of the most notorious Nazi war criminals who made their way to South America. 1. Adolf Eichmann Adolf Hühnlein – Reichsleiter; Korpsführer (Corps Leader) of the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) from 1934 until his death in 1942. Christian Mergenthaler – Minister President and Minister of Culture of Württemberg (1933–1945). He was also an SA- Obergruppenführer.Joachim von Ribbentrop – Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany from 1938 until 1945 and an SS- Obergruppenführer. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal. Leonardo Conti – Head of the Reich Physicians' Chamber ( Reichsärztekammer) and leader of the National Socialist German Doctors' League (1939–1944). He was an SS- Obergruppenführer and participated in the Aktion T4 euthanasia program. Josef Wagner – Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia-South from 1931 and also of Gau Silesia from 1934. Oberpräsident of the Prussian provinces of both Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia from 1934 and, after their union, the Province of Silesia (1938–1941). He was also an Obergruppenführer of both the SA and NSKK. Relieved of his posts in November 1941 and expelled from the Nazi Party in October 1942, he was executed by the Gestapo in 1945.