Conversations with Hitler or – Quid Est Veritas?: Apostles & Victims Volume I

By Mary Bell

1. Kansas farmgirl Dorothy Gale is sent to Berlin in the final weeks of the war to interview Hitler.
2. Finding herself in the Bunker with lots of free time, Dorothy also converses with Hitlers entourage, including Goering, Himmler, Eichmann, Eva Braun, Magda Goebbels and many more
3. Dorothy also interviews Hitlers victims, such as Primo Levi and the martyred Sophie Scholl.
4. The aim of Dorothy is to understand what evil is? Is there evil?
5. The other aim for Dorothy is to understand what causes Man to be homicidally violent?
6. If Hitler is mad and/or evil, what about the 80.0 million fervent, enthusiastic German people? Mustnt they too be classified as mad and/or evil?
7. The only way for Dorothy to understand the totality of Hitlers mind is by kneading in all these other characters and only then will an accurate portrait evolve.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Aug 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9781546294856

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Contents

Dramatis Personae

1.  In the Beginning Was the Word - Hitler’s Words on Jews

2. Hitler on Jews – Kikes, Excrement, Maggots and Flies

3. Jews Are as Maggots in a Putrefying Dead Organism

4. The Differing Types of People I Interviewed

I. Actors – Albert Speer

II. Those Who Pretend, or Genuinely Believe Nothing Foul Occurred During the Holocaust

III. ‘Yes, Now We Know of the Holocaust, But We Never Heard A Word About It During the War Itself’

IV. ‘We Cannot Live in A Post-Hitler World and Therefore We Must Commit Suicide’

5. Goebbels Gives Sage Advice to A

Woman Who Lost Her Home – 1945

6. How Did Hitler Interpret the World’s Nonresponsive Attitude to His Ongoing Holocaust?

7. Ted Bundy- Magically Seducing His Executioner, Judge Edward D. Cowart

8. Are There Commonalities Between Evil and Good Individuals - Eichmann and Sophie Scholl?

9. Painting Hitler - Basil Hallward, Dorian Gray And Time

10. Klara Pölzl - Piercing Eyes, Sagacious and Adoring Mother of Hitler

11. August Kubizek - Hitler’s Only Transient Friend

12. Why the Attributes of the Teen Hitler Are Important – Beatnik, Maverick Sluggard

13. Different Types of Evil Humans - Or, How Many Faces of Evil are There?

I. Fundamentalist Moslems

II. Fundamentalist Jews

III. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Female Circumcision or Clitoridectomy

14. Hitler - Sociopath or Psychopath?

15. Duplicitous Nature of Historiography & Historians

I. There Is Only One Acceptable, Conventional Historiographical Narrative on Hitler

II. We Must Include Both Positive and Negative Truths of Our Character/s and/or Event/s

III. Conventional Historians Use the Lies and Omissions Methodology

IV. Conventional Historians Dismiss Hitler’s Unique Magnetic Personality - Unparalleled in Modern History

16. Brief Introduction on Quantum Physics and its Connection with The Study of Mind of Man

I. Macroscopic Quantum Physics Reality

II. Historiography as the 1802 Double Slit Experiment

17. Why Were the Conversations Never Published?

18. Methodology for a Portrait Painting of Adolf Hitler

19. The [Only] Two Types of Hitler Historians

20. FAQs - Hitler 101

21. The Standard Officially Accepted Model [SOAM] of History on Hitler - A Dead End

22. Are My Memoirs Unique?

23. Why Did I Finally Decided to Write My Memoirs?

24. Unnatural Effects of Being in Berlin – Mixtures of Jackson Pollock & Edward Hopper

25. The [Ongoing] Cadaverousness of the Only Acceptable, Conventional & Repetitive Hitler Historians

26. Consequences of The Conventional Hitler Historians – The Proper Asphyxiation of Knowledge

27. Why Bother Analyzing Hitler?

28. Another Methodology for A Portrait of Hitler – A Homicide Detective’s Job

29. Five Unexpected Twists I Experienced in Berlin

30. Nazis Asking Themselves, ‘Me? Nazi? Never! & Why Was I A Nazi?

31. Famous People Who Publicly Admired Hitler … Who? … Who is he? … Who Cares?!

32. Anti-Semitism

33. Is Hitler Insane And/Or Evil?

• Ralph Tortorici

• Charles Whitman

• Johann ‘Jack’ Unterweger

34. Why is it So Difficult for Us to Equate Criminal Leaders and CEO’s to Individual Criminals?

35. Hitler’s Cadaverous Influence

36. SS German Officers Converse – On

Man’s Intellect & Sophie Scholl

37. Introducing Me - Myself!

38. Dorothy’s Weltanschauung Pre-Eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil Times

39. Daddy, Poverty & Inexplicable Hell

40. Man’s Cruelty to Man

41. Daddy Tells Me Why I Must Take This Job - If I Want to Find Serenity [?!]

42. Interview with Anonymous DC Official – December 1944

43. Studying & Knowing Myself Equals Joy

44. The Consequences in Trivialising & Minimising Hitler

45. The Mass Prevalence of the ‘Little Hitler’s’ In Our Lives

ENTERING BERLING AND THE BUNKER

46. First Impressions of Berlin 1945

47. The Horrific & Absurd Existence of the Anonymous Katharina Essen - I

48. The Idiocy of Segmenting Any Historical Narrative – Which Brings Us Right Back to [Sorry!] The Laws of Quantum Physics

49. Man Needing to Bleed Man

50. Conflictive Emotions; Quantum Waves & Particles

51. Dawn of the Battle of Berlin

52. Nothingness is Berlin

53. Evil is Good

54. Dry Statistics on Germany’s Destruction

55. First Impressions of the Bunkerites

56. Hitler Interviewed by Richard Breiting – 1931

57. Idling While Titanic Sinks

58. Conversation I with Rochus Misch

• What Is Our Only Means of Communication? Randomly Calling Anyone. If They Speak Germany We Know the Area is Still in German Hands!

59. Slice of Hell Though Nothing Really Matters in Berlin

60. Conversation II with Rochus Misch

• The Carnival of Finding Anyone to Defend Berlin [Or What’s Left of It] - I

61. Contradictory Thoughts – Sightseeing in Gay Berlin

62. Three Soviet Officers – What is the Meaning of This War?

63. Conversation III with Rochus Misch

• The Carnival of Finding Anyone to Defend Berlin [Or What’s Left of It] - II

• Hollowness and Stupidities Among Our Leaders and Sub-Leaders

64. Three Female German Teens - Discuss Each Other’s Concerns & Needs [Hush!]

• Misch - Where Are Our Great Generals? – No, Worry, Here Comes Himmler The Great!

FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF SEEING ADOLF HITLER

65. My First Impressions of Hitler – Hitler Does Not Look Like ‘Hitler’

66. FAQ I - Can You Tell Us How Mad Was Hitler?

67. FAQ II - What Were His Eyes Like? Did They Hypnotise You?

68. Disquieting Excavator of Our Lost Nerves & Impulses

69. Conversations with Keitel, Goebbels, Guderian and Speer – I

• Has Hitler Changed Over the Years?

• America Has Only ‘Jungle Culture’

70. Three Female German Teens - What Is Happiness?

71. Conversations with Keitel, Goebbels, Guderian & Speer – II

72. The Horrific and Absurd Existence of the Anonymous Katharina Essen – II

• My First [Revolting] One on One Conversation with Himmler

73. What Is Hitler’s Worth Now?

74. Was Hitler Seductive?

75. Falsifying Portraits of Hitler

76. FAQ III - Did I Just Sit There & Ask Questions and Hear His Answers?

77. Tedious & Pointless Military Conferences

78. Watching and Observing Hitler

79. What Options Were There for Hitler by April 1945?

80. FAQ IV - How Can One Man Mesmerise Millions of Germans and Not Only in Germany?

81. Typical [Erroneous] Portraits of Hitler by Standard Conventional Historians

82. Finally! – Yours Truly Paints an Entirely Different Understanding of Hitler

83. Did Germans Know of the Holocaust? [Seriously?!]

84. Ten Ambitions I Hope to Achieve with My Memoirs

Conversation I

1. My Lousy Start

2. Why Did Germany Force Jews In Concentration Camps or Ghettoes to the Point Where They Were Starving?

3. Herr Hitler – What Do You Think Your Legacy Will Be?

4. Herr Hitler, Are You Aware of Your Crimes?

5. Conversation with The Infanticidal Adele Sorella

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‘Then Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing. And they cast lots to divide his clothing.’

— Luke 23:34 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

• Hans Frank. To Leon Goldensohn, July 20, 1946, from The Nuremberg Interviews by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 37

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Sympathy for The Devil

Please allow me to introduce myself

I’m a man of wealth and taste

I’ve been around for a long, long year

Stole many a man’s soul and faith

And I was ’round when Jesus Christ

Had his moment of doubt and pain

Made damn sure that Pilate

Washed his hands and sealed his fate.

• Mick Jagger, Keith Richards - 1968

MANY REAL LIVES

A MAN STUMBLES ACROSS A STREET,

FINGERS GRIPPING THE BROWN PAPER BAG,

A WOMAN PACES BACK AND FORTH,

MAKING SILENT OFFERS TO PASSING DRIVERS.

UP THE BLOCK ANOTHER MAN,

SLUMPS OVER A SIDEWALK BENCH,

HIS BODY HANGING ON SOMEHOW,

BETWEEN THE BENCH AND CONCRETE.

• TOMMY LYNN SELLS - American Serial Killer (1965-2014)

"Ye are of your Father the Devil, and the lusts of your Father ye will do. He was a Murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the Truth, because there is no Truth in Him. When he speaketh a Lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a Liar, and the Father of it."

— John. 8:44. King James Version

In our hatred, we are like bees who must pay with their lives for the use of their stingers

— Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen. (1884-1945) Diary of a Man in Despair

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Dramatis Personae

Anonymous DC Official. Interviewed Dorothy for the job vacancy to interview Hitler.

Dorothy Gale: Yours Truly!

Jacob Gale: Dorothy’s beloved Father.

Abelarda Gale: Dorothy’s stiff, cold Mother.

Henry Gale: Dorothy’s aspiring novelist brother.

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GERMANS

Non-Political Characters

Eva Gretl. Teen German Girl. Has a boyfriend in the army and is Missing in Action. Uninterested in politics.

Ilse Koch Teen German Girl: Ilse Koch. Fanatic Nazi.

Gudrun Ensslin. Teen German Girl: Revolutionary Marxist. Anti-capitalist and anti-Stalinist.

Siegfried Löffner. From Moravia, a Jewish colleague at the men’s hostel, dragged Hitler’s archenemy, Hanisch, to the police to report him for defrauding Hitler.

Simon Robinson. Jewish locksmith from Galicia, received a small invalid’s pension, helped Hitler out financially when the latter was living in extreme poverty.

Reinhold Hanisch (27 January 1884, Grünwald an der Neiße (Czech: Mšeno nad Nisou) near Gablonz/Neiße, northern Bohemia, Imperial & Royal Austria – 2? February (death date controversial) 1937, in Vienna, aged 53). Austrian migrant worker and sometime partner of the young Adolf Hitler, helping him to sell his watercolour paintings. Hanisch, who published articles on Hitler, with whom he had lived in 1910, is, next to August Kubizek, one of the few witnesses to Hitler’s Vienna years.

Stefanie Rabatsch (née Isak; born 28 December 1887 – died unknown, after 1973). Austrian woman who had an unrequited love of then-teenage Adolf Hitler. She remained entirely unaware Hitler was in love with her and was only informed of the fact when he became famous as Chancellor.

Magdalena ‘Magda’ Goebbels (née Ritschel; 11 November 1901 – 1 May 1945). Wife of Nazi Germany’s Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Her marriage was a sham, only kept in existence at Hitler’s insistence. Fanatically loyal to Hitler, she decided to murder her six children and then commit suicide rather than live in a post-Hitler Germany.

Klara Hitler (née Pölzl; 12 August 1860 – 21 December 1907). Mother of Adolf Hitler.

Eva Hitler (née Braun; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945). Companion/mistress of Adolf Hitler. For less than 40 hours, his wife. Committed suicide with Hitler.

August (‘Gustl’) Kubizek (3 August 1888 – 23 October 1956). Austrian man best known for being a close friend of Adolf Hitler, when both were in their late teens. He later wrote about their friendship in his book The Young Hitler I Knew (1955).

Margarete ‘Gretl’ Braun (31 August 1915 – 10 October 1987). One of the two sisters of Eva Braun. She was a member of the inner social circle of Adolf Hitler at the Berghof. Braun married SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein, a liaison officer on Hitler’s staff, on 3 June 1944. Fegelein was shot for desertion in the closing days of World War II. She named her daughter Eva, in honour of her dead sister. On April 25th, 1975, Eva Barbara Fegelein, aged 29, committed suicide.

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Hitler’s Entourage

Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering) 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946). Reichsmarschall and Head of the Luftwaffe. Second man in charge, after Hitler. Committed suicide.

Paul Josef Goebbels [29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945]. German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Committed suicide.

Wilhelm Keitel (22 September 1882 – 16 October 1946): German Field Marshal [Generalfeldmarschall], served as Chief of the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht or OKW) throughout the war. Sentenced to death by hanging.

Hans Frank (23 May 1900 – 16 October 1946). German war criminal and lawyer who worked for the Nazi Party during the 1920s and 1930s, and later became Adolf Hitler’s personal lawyer. After the invasion of Poland, Frank became Nazi Germany’s chief jurist in the occupied Poland ‘General Government’ territory. During his tenure throughout World War II (1939–45), he instituted a reign of terror against the civilian population and became directly involved in the mass murder of Jews. At the Nuremberg trials, he was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and was executed.

Alfred Ernst Rosenberg (12 January 1893 – 16 October 1946). German theorist and an influential ideologue of the Nazi Party. The author of a seminal work of Nazi ideology, The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930), Rosenberg is considered one of the main authors of key National Socialist ideological creeds. Following the invasion of the USSR, Rosenberg was appointed head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete). Sentenced to death by hanging.

Joachim von Ribbentrop (30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946). Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany from 1938 until 1945. Despised and ridiculed by most of Hitler’s entourage for his pompous, haughty and ill-mannered ways. Sentenced to death by hanging.

Heinz Wilhelm Guderian (17 June 1888 – 14 May 1954). General. Innovator and advocate of the ‘blitzkrieg’ (lightning war). One of the few military men who dared stand up and fiercely argue with Hitler, leading to the loudest shouting matches.

Alfred Jodl (10 May 1890 – 16 October 1946). General. Served as the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht). Sentenced to death by hanging.

Albert Speer (March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981). German architect who was, for most of World War II, Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany. He was one of the few Nazis who became rich and famous when the mass media, press and journalists treated him as the sincere ‘Penitent Nazi’ and yet throughout his post-Spandau prison life and career, he insisted he knew nothing of the Holocaust.

Julius Streicher (12 February 1885 – 16 October 1946). Prominent member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) prior to World War II. He was the founder and publisher of the virulently anti-Semitic newspaper Der Stürmer. Goering persuaded Hitler to remove Streicher in 1939 given his extreme public and private vulgar, coarse and outright boorish behaviour. At the end of the war, Streicher was convicted of crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg trials and was executed.

Robert Ley (15 February 1890 – 25 October 1945). German politician during the Nazi era who headed the German Labour Front from 1933 to 1945. During his trial he became a born again Christian and a ‘fanatic’ anti-Nazi. During his final weeks he spoke in semi-coherent manners, before committing suicide.

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Hitler’s Secretaries

Christa Schroeder (19 March 1908 – 28 June 1984). One of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s personal secretaries before and during World War II.

Gertraud ‘Traudl’ Junge (née Humps; 16 March 1920 – 10 February 2002). Worked as Adolf Hitler’s last private secretary from December 1942 to April 1945. After typing out Hitler’s will, she remained in the Berlin Führerbunker until his death. Following her arrest and imprisonment in June 1945, both the Soviet and the U.S. militaries interrogated her. Later, in post-war West Germany, she worked as a secretary. In her old age she decided to publish her memoirs, claiming ignorance of the Nazi atrocities during the war, but blaming herself for missing opportunities to investigate reports about them. Her story based partly on her book, Until the Final Hour, formed a part of several dramatizations, in particular the 2004 German film Downfall about Hitler›s final ten days.

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SS Characters

Adolf Ott (born December 29, 1904 in Waidhaus, † after 1957). SS-Obersturmbannführer (since January 30, 1941); from February 15, 1942 to January 1943, as leader of Sonderkommando 7b (Einsatzgruppe B) responsible for numerous mass murders in Russia and Belarus. In February 1942 he was succeeded by Günther Rauschcommander of the Sonderkommando 7b. In the Nuremberg Einsatzgruppen trial in 1947, he justified the mass murder by claiming that the victims were partisans and saboteurs. Asked by President Judge Musmanno what happened to Jewish prisoners, Ott replied: "In accordance with the Fiihrer order, all Jews were basically shot dead.»

Peter Högl (19 August 1897 – 2 May 1945). German officer holding the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel), member of one of Adolf Hitler’s bodyguard units. He spent time in the Führerbunker in Berlin at the end of World War II. He was charged with finding and returning Fegelein who had deserted the Bunker in violation of military codes of conduct. Högl later died from wounds received during the break-out on 2 May 1945 while crossing the Weidendammer Bridge under heavy fire in Berlin.

Horst Böhme (24 August 1909 – 10 April 1945). German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He served in the SD, the intelligence service of the SS, and was a leading perpetrator of the Holocaust. After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in May 1942, acted on the ‘retaliation’ orders from Adolf Hitler by perpetrating the massacre at Lidice. When Böhme thought the executions were proceeding too slowly with the men being shot in groups of five, he ordered ten men be shot at a time. Since April 1945, Böhme, who was last seen in combat near Königsberg, was considered lost. After the war, he was listed as a war criminal on the international wanted list for some years. He was declared dead by the District Court of Kiel on 12 August 1954, with a death date of 10 April 1945. It is presumed he had either died in combat or shot himself so as not to fall into Russian hands.

Karl Jäger (20 September 1888 – 22 June 1959). Swiss-born mid-ranking official in the SS of Nazi Germany and Einsatzkommando leader who perpetrated acts of genocide during the Holocaust. Jäger was instrumental in the brutal and systematic destruction of the Jewish community of Lithuania. From July 1941 until September 1943. During this time, reports detailing calculated acts of mass murder were routinely submitted to his superiors. Some of these reports survived the war and are collectively referred to as the Jäger Report. Jäger escaped capture by the Allies when the war ended, assumed a false identity, and was able to assimilate back into society as a farm hand until his report was discovered in March 1959. Arrested and charged with his crimes, Jäger committed suicide by hanging himself in prison in Hohenasperg while awaiting trial in June 1959.

Rochus Misch (29 July 1917 – 5 September 2013). German Oberscharführer (sergeant) in the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH). He was badly wounded during the Polish campaign during the first month of World War II in Europe. After recovering, from 1940 to April 1945, he served in the Führerbegleitkommando (Führer Escort Command; FBK) as a bodyguard, courier, and telephone operator for German dictator Adolf Hitler. He was widely reported in the media as being the last surviving occupant of the Führerbunker when he died in September 2013.

Hermann Fegelein (30 October 1906 – 28 April 1945). SS-Standartenführer in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany. He was a member of Adolf Hitler’s entourage and brother-in-law to Eva Braun through his marriage to her sister Gretl. He abandoned his eight-month pregnant wife, leaving the Bunker without permission and was apprehended by SS officers with documents indicating he was preparing to travel to Sweden. He was summarily tried and executed for treason.

Rudolf Höss (also Höß, Hoeß or Hoess; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a Nazi German SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp in World War II. He tested and carried into effect various methods to accelerate Hitler’s plan to systematically exterminate the Jewish population of Nazi-occupied Europe, known as the Final Solution. On the initiative of one of his subordinates, SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) Karl Fritzsch, Höss introduced pesticide Zyklon B containing hydrogen cyanide to the killing process. He was hanged in 1947 following a trial in Warsaw. During his imprisonment in Poland, at the request of the Polish authorities, he wrote a book, which was released in English under the title Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess. It consists of two parts, one about his own life and the second about other SS men with whom he had become acquainted, mainly Heinrich Himmler and Theodor Eicke, but several others as well.

Franz Suchomel (3 December 1907 – 18 December 1979). Sudeten German Nazi war criminal. Participated in the Action T4 euthanasia program, in Operation Reinhard, and the Einsatzgruppen actions in the Adriatic operational zone. He was convicted at the Treblinka trials in September 1965 and spent four years in prison.

Otto Ohlendorf (4 February 1907 – 7 June 1951). German SS Gruppenführer. Head of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) Inland, responsible for intelligence and security within Germany. Ohlendorf was also commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe D, responsible for the mass murders in Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and, during 1942, the north Caucasus. Sentenced to death by hanging.

Franz Paul Stangl (26 March 1908 – 28 June 1971). Austrian-born police officer who became an employee of the T-4 Euthanasia Program and an SS commander in Nazi Germany. Commandant of the Sobibór and Treblinka extermination camps during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust. He worked for Volkswagen do Brasil, arrested in Brazil in 1967, extradited to West Germany and tried for the mass murder of 900,000 people. In 1970, he was found guilty and sentenced to the maximum penalty, life imprisonment. He died of heart failure six months later.

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945). Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS). Committed suicide upon being captured.

Franz Stärfl, alias Franz Stofel, (5 October 1915 – 13 December 1945). Nazi German SS-Hauptscharführer and camp commander of the Kleinbodungen subcamp of Mittelbau-Dora during World War II. Arrested by the Allies and convicted of war crimes in the Belsen Trial, Stärfl was executed by hanging at Hamelin prison in 1945. Near the end of the war, as the United States 9th Army approached Mittelbau-Dora, Stärfl was ordered by SS-Obersturmführer Franz Hössler to evacuate Kleinbodungen on 4 April 1945. The next day, 610 prisoners were led outside the camp by Stärfels, his deputy Wilhelm Dörr, and 45 SS-men to the nearest town of Herzberg to be ‘evacuated’ by rail. Due to the persistent risk of air attacks on the rail lines, Stärfl decided instead to take the prisoners on a death march to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which was still operational. By 10 April 1945, after some prisoners had already managed to escape, the evacuation transport came to the village of Groß Hehlen north of Celle, near the front lines. On 11 April 1945, the remaining 590 prisoners arrived at Bergen-Belsen.

Reinhard Heydrich (7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942). High-ranking German Nazi official during World War II, and a main architect of the Holocaust. He was also Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy/Acting Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia. He chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, which formalised plans for the Final Solution to the Jewish Question—the deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe.

Dr. Richard Korherr (Regensburg, 30 October 1903 – 24 November 1989, Braunschweig). Professional statistician in Nazi Germany, and chief inspector of the statistical bureau of the SS during World War II. Korherr eventually held the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer. During World War II Korherr was commissioned by Heinrich Himmler to calculate the number of Jews in Europe subject to «special treatment» (Sonderbehandlung, an SS code name for mass murder) from 1937 to December 1942. Korherr completed his Korherr Report in January 1943 and handed it over to SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Dr. Rudolf Brandt on the 23 March of that year. It was a 16-page document on the progress of the Holocaust as reflected in the dwindling numbers of Jews in Germany and German-occupied Europe. It included a seven-page supplement about the deportations in the first three months of 1943. The report was released under the title Die Endlösung der Judenfrage (English: the Final Solution to the Jewish Question). Korherr calculated that the number had fallen by 4 million, of whom 1,274,166 victims were delivered to camps for ‘special treatment’.

Karl Wolff (13 May 1900 – 17 July 1984). High-ranking member of the Nazi SS who held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer in the Waffen-SS. He became Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler) and SS Liaison Officer to Hitler until his replacement in 1943. He ended World War II as the Supreme Commander of all SS forces in Italy. Wolff evaded prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials, apparently as a result of his participation in Operation Sunrise. In 1964, Wolff was convicted of war crimes in West Germany; he was released in 1969.

Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1 March 1899 – 8 March 1972). High-ranking SS commander of Nazi Germany. During World War II, he was in charge of security warfare (Bandenbekämpfung, literally: bandit fighting) against those designated by the regime as ideological enemies and any other persons deemed to present danger to the Nazi rule or Wehrmacht’s rear security in the occupied territories of Eastern Europe. It mostly involved the civilian population. In 1944 he led the brutal suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. Despite his responsibility for numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity, Bach-Zelewski did not stand trial in Nuremberg, and instead was used as a witness for the prosecution. He was later convicted for politically motivated murders after the war and died in prison in 1972.

Waldemar Klingelhöfer (4 April 1900, Moscow – c. 1980). SS-Sturmbannführer (Major) and convicted war criminal. In 1941, he was assigned to Einsatzgruppe B as a Russian interpreter. This Einsatzgruppe—already by November 1941, according to its own Status Report No. 133—had killed 45,467 persons. Klingelhöfer witnessed executions and carried out others. For example, he shot 30 Jews who had left a ghetto without permission. Klingelhöfer later claimed he did this on the orders of Arthur Nebe to make an example out of the victims, then contradicted himself by saying that three women had contacted some partisans, then returned to the town and spoke with the Jews. This, according to Klingelhöfer, made the Jews partisans and therefore subject to being shot. The three women Klingelhöfer also shot, but—unlike the Jews—he blindfolded them and buried them in a separate grave.

Waldemar von Radetzky (born May 8, 1910 in Moscow, † February 21, 1990). German-Baltic SS-Sturmbannführer, involved in the Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C on the murder of the Jews in occupied Ukraine. Radetzky was sentenced in 1948 in the Einsatzgruppen trial to 20 years in prison but released in 1951. In the Federal Republic he was involved in the German-Baltic Landsmannschaft.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner (4 October 1903 – 16 October 1946). Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany during World War II. An Obergruppenführer (general) in the Schutzstaffel (SS), between January 1943 and May 1945 he held the offices of Chief of the Reich Main Security Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt; RSHA). He was the highest-ranking member of the SS to face trial at the first Nuremberg trials. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and executed.

Paul Blobel (13 August 1894 – 7 June 1951). German SS commander during the Nazi era. He is best known as the key figure in organising and executing the Babi Yar massacre of 1941. In June 1942, Blobel was put in charge of Aktion 1005, with the task of destroying the evidence of all Nazi atrocities in Eastern Europe. After the war, he was convicted of war crimes at the Einsatzgruppen Trial and executed.

Eugen Steimle (8 December 1909 – 9 October 1987). German SS commander in the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) during the Nazi era. He commanded Sonderkommando 7a and Einsatzkommando 4a of the Einsatzgruppen, both of which were responsible for mass killings in the Soviet Union. Steimle was found guilty in 1947 in the Einsatzgruppen Trial and sentenced to death in 1948. His sentence was commuted to 20 years in prison.

Willi Seibert, also Willy Seibert (born June 17, 1908 in Hannover, † March 30, 1976 in Bremen). SS-Standartenführer and from May 1941 to summer 1942 deputy commander of Einsatzgruppe D under Otto Ohlendorf. The members of Einsatzgruppe D murdered tens of thousands of Jews in Crimea and the southern Soviet Union in 1941-1943. In 1948 Seibert was sentenced to death in the Einsatzgruppen trial, but released in 1954 from custody.

Walter Haensch (born March 3, 1904 in Hirschfelde, † after 1955). German SS-Obersturmbannführer, who was involved as a commander of the Sonderkommando 4b of the Einsatzgruppe C leader in the murder of the Jews in occupied Ukraine. Haensch was sentenced to death in 1948 in the Einsatzgruppen trial, but released in 1955.

Dieter Wisliceny (born 13 January 1911 in Regulowken now Możdżany, Giżycko County in East Prussia, was executed 4 May 1948 in Bratislava, now in the Republic of Slovakia). Member of the Nazi SS, and a key executioner in the final phase of the Holocaust. During implementation of the Final Solution, his task was the ghettoization and liquidation of several important Jewish communities in Nazi-occupied Europe,