After overseeing the creation of the Gestapo, which he ceded to Himmler in 1934, Göring was appointed commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe. Biography: Guido Knopp is Head of History and Current Affairs for ZDF, Germany's second national TV channel.

He was also softly spoken and I suspect if he had sounded anything like Freisler he was more likely to have been hung. 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.His peace proposal—met with no response from the British—was essentially the same as the peace offer made by Hitler in July 1940: an end to hostilities with Britain and its empire in exchange for a free German hand on the European continent. In this lecture, we'll investigate the personalities of Hitler's right-hand men - some of whom became his arch enemies. As chief of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht from 1938 to 1945, Wilhelm Keitel loyally supported Hitler's policies. Ideas of making Germany great again indoctrinated the German people to support them indefinitely, hiding the mass slaughter of human life behind their convincing propaganda campaigns. Featured are Goebbels, Goring, Hess, Bormann, Himmler, Speer, von Schirach, von Ribbontrop, Rosenberg, and Eva Braun.

Field Marshal of the German Army (Wehrmacht), Chief of the Supreme High Command of the German Armed Forces (OKW) and Chief of Defence for Germany, Hitler’s Chief of Staff. As chief of the Reich Chancellery, Hans Lammers held one of the most powerful positions in the Third Reich. 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. The central tenet of societal organization in Nazi Germany was the 'Führer Principle' by which Hitler's word was (above) law: propaganda posters reminded citizens that 'The Führer is always right.

Assuming the position of Hitler's private secretary after Rudolf Hess's flight to Britain, Martin Bormann was also head of the party chancellery. Hitler’s Chief Architect and Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich, and member of Hitler’s inner circle. This book also should be proscribed reading for all those who do not acknowledge the Holocaust and for all of us take it as a warning that this could happen on this scale again. An honorary member of the SS, Lammers, along with Martin Bormann, increasingly controlled access to Hitler. Hitler's henchmen were men who lived normal family lives, often with wives and children, despite the atrocities they took part in each and every day.

Aside from the part they played in Hitler’s regime, these three men all had one further thing in common – they survived the war and restarted their careers in Adenauer’s Federal Republic of Germany. It has been disputed about how much involvement Hitler was involved in what was known as his pet project. Walther Funk was the Reich Minister of Economics, President of the Reichsbank and State Secretary of at the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

He explores the shocking evidence of a merciless era - and of the shameful omissions of post-war German justice. He was captured and arrested by British forces and committed suicide while in British custody on the 23rd May 1945. To provide the design for this “people’s car”, Hitler employed the Austrian automobile engineer Ferdinand Porsche. However, the development and mass production proceeded for an affordable vehicle for the masses to enjoy. The factual nature of the book also lays to rest some of the pre-conceived ideas and view of how the Nazi party machine orchestrated the clearing out of population of their occupied countries to make way for incoming Germans to replace them.