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Rudolf Hess
• Wrote Mein Kampf, dictated to him.
• Only one of the inner circle to survive the war.
• Parachuted over Britain to “end the war,” imprisoned, tried at the Nuremburg Trial. Imprisoned for life.
Ernst Roehm
• WWI Army Veteran
• In command o the SA (Storm troopers, “Brown Shirts,” secret patrol, ground runners)
• SA is the general security for Nazi movement and intimidators
• Expert in small arms use
• Left Germany in the 1920s to help South American dictators. Brought back by Hitler
• Homosexual – preferred young boys
• Hitler agrees to take him down and SA power in return for Regular German Army Support after Hindenburg dies
Heinrich Himmler
• Previously a chicken farmer
• In charge of Hitler’s body guards (SS Officers)
• Schemer – looking to elevate his own status
• Second most powerful in Germany because he builds his own empire within the SS.
 SS was in charge of Racial Policies (cornerstone of Holocaust)
 SS had the blood of seven million on their hands by the end of the war in 1945
• Inherits the Gestapo by the end of the 1930s.
Hermann Goering
• Second in command to Hitler
• Fighter pilot in WWI
 In charge of Airforce during rearming of Germany (Luftwaffe)
• Called “air clubs” because it was illegal to train pilots. One of Europe’s strongest airforces.
• He was least like the Nazi’s of all of Hitler’s inner-circle. He was also a drug addict.
• Master manipulator, Hitler’s number 2 man “Reichsmarshal”= second in command
• In charge of the Gestapo – Secret Police at the beginning of the Third Reich.
 Perfected the art of interrogation and torture.
Paul von Hindenburg
• -In his 80s
• -Viewed Hitler as a vulgar commoner
• -Knew Hitler represented some people
 -Closer Monarch, not a great defender of democracy. But was a German Patriot
• Paul von Hindenburg vs. Hitler
 Hindenburg wins by a huge margin and appoints Hitler to Chancellor in 1933
• August 2, 1934 – Hindenburg dies
• Hitler assumes full power, claiming himself Der Fuehrer and eliminating the office of President.
Joseph Paul Goebbels
• Minister of Propaganda
 One of the few intellectuals in the Nazi Movement
 Became one of the most fanatical, master manipulator of German mindset
 Controlled media, arts and cultural aspects of German life
• Absolutely dedicated to Hitler
 In Hitler’s bunker with him in the last days. Shortly after he committed suicide, he and his wife gave their children poison.
Geli Raubal
-Adolf's half niece, committed suicide
-As he rose to power as leader of the Nazi Party, Hitler was domineering and possessive of Raubal, keeping a tight rein on her.[
Leni Riegenstahl
• Director of “Triumph of the Will”
 Hitler sought out someone to direct a propaganda film
• Leni Riegenstahl is chosen
o Did not die until 2002 at the age of 103
o Claims to have no regrets
• Leni joined the Nazi party
• Nuremberg Nazi Party rally (“Congress”) – Sept 1934
Neville Chamberlain
• Munich Conference (1938)
 Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (UK) and Edouard Daladier (FR). Czechoslovakian PM was there, but kept in another room while the fate of his country was decided.
 Agreement: There would be no war. Hitler would leave the rest of Czechoslovakia alone.
 Chamberlain claims to have brought “The peace of our time” – Hitler and Mussolini never planned to keep agreement.
• One year later, Hitler invades and the country is split and divided between:
o Germany, Poland and Hungary
Edouard Daladier
• Munich Conference (1938)
 Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (UK) and Edouard Daladier (FR). Czechoslovakian PM was there, but kept in another room while the fate of his country was decided.
 Agreement: There would be no war. Hitler would leave the rest of Czechoslovakia alone.
 Chamberlain claims to have brought “The peace of our time” – Hitler and Mussolini never planned to keep agreement.
• One year later, Hitler invades and the country is split and divided between:
• Germany, Poland and Hungary
Count Ciano
Gian Galeazzo Ciano (18 March 1903 – 11 January 1944)

-Foreign Minister of Fascist Italy from 1936 until 1943
-Benito Mussolini's son-in-law. On January 11, 1944 -Count Ciano was shot by firing squad at the behest of his father-in-law, Mussolini, under pressure from Nazi Germany.[1] Ciano left a massive diary,[2] that has been used among others by William Shirer in his monumental The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,
-His last words were "Long live Italy!"
Joachim von Ribbentrop
• August – Hitler sends Joachim von Ribbentrop (foreign minister) to negotiate a peace treaty between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Soviet foreign minister (V. Molotov).
 Non-Aggression Pact of 1939
• Signed the “end of Poland.”
• Germans will also not interfere when Russia comes in from the East to take part of Poland.
• Clears the war to the beginning of WWI.
Vyacheslav Molotov
• August – Hitler sends Joachim von Ribbentrop (foreign minister) to negotiate a peace treaty between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Soviet foreign minister (V. Molotov).
 Non-Aggression Pact of 1939
• Signed the “end of Poland.”
• Germans will also not interfere when Russia comes in from the East to take part of Poland.
• Clears the war to the beginning of WWI.
Joseph Stalin
• Succeeded Lenin
 Killed Trotsku
 Focused heavily on power, was not an intellectual
• Famous for 5 year plans
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Elected President: 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944
• Hitler’s nemesis, they came to power around the same time.
• If US must fight, FDR says it shouldn’t be in their “backyard”
• 1936 – Roosevelt won by a landslide
• “Quarantine Speech” (1938)
 “feeler” of public opinion- mixed reaction
 Compared countries at war (GR, JA, IT) to sick people
 Don’t do business with countries- quarantine them.
• Rainbow 5
 Hypothetical situation where US fight Japan, Germany and Italy
• Must prioritize, Germany represented largest threat