Collaborator

Hjalmar Schacht Collaborator Hjalmar Schacht was born in Tingleff, Imperial Germany (which is now a part of Denmark) on January 22nd 1877. He died on June 3rd 1970. He was Hitler’s main economics advisor and helped lift the depression from Germany and furthered rearmament after the First World War He opposed Hitler’s views on killing all the Jews and offered a plan to help them emigrate, but only if they paid money to the Reich. His plan was not accepted, however, and he resigned from his post. He was later implicated in the 1944 plot against Hitler.

Martin Niemoller Michael Finneran and John Grant

Martin Niemoller was born in 1892 in Lippstadt, Germany. He was a son of a protestant pastor. In WW1, He was a U-boat lieutenant. In 1924, He turned into a Lutheran Protestant. In that time, he was a fan of Hitler and even voted for him in the elections in 1924. Hitler said he would harm the Protestant churches, but he later did. He did not mind if political opponents spoke out, but he begun to act when the leaders of the Protestant Church were arrested. In 1936, he formed a resistance movement known as The Confessing Church, which over 3,000 pastors joined. In 1937, he was arrested for crimes against the state and was find 2,000 Reich marks. After he was released, he was immediately re-arrested by the Gestapo and was sent to the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps to be “re-educated”. George Bell heard about Niemoller being thrown into the Concentration camps and wrote about it in the British press. Joseph Goebbels ordered Niemoller’s execution, but Albert Rosenberg saved his life by saying that by keeping Niemoller alive, it would lead people like George Bell to attack the German Government, so Niemoller was spared. He was liberated by the allies in 1945. Niemoller was most famous for his apology for being a collaborator after his release. He said: “First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. “Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew.” Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.” He died in 1984.

Hans Frank Taylor Hom Hans Frank was born on May 23, 1900, in Karlsrune, Germany, and he died on October 16, 1946. He worshiped the Nazi’s, which made him join the military-style organization after high school. After that, in 1923, he joined the Nazi Party. He became part of the Storm Troopers, a Nazi group, which used terror tactics to help Hitler gain power in Germany. In 1939, Germany successfully invaded Poland. Also, Frank was one of Hitler’s earliest supporters and his personal lawyer. So, Hitler appointed Frank as a governor of Poland after the outbreak of WWII. Even though he was governor, he could not control the concentration camps. His plan for Poland was to, “remove all supplies, raw materials, machines, factories, installations, etc. which are important for the German war economy.” He did this so they could use it for themselves. As he got older, people described him as weak, unstable, and full of speeches about furthering justice and honor while treating Poles and Jews in Poland with great cruelty and injustice. On March 5, 1942, his powers of being governor were taken away. He had secretly enriched members of his family with goods looted from the Jews. He was sent to Nuremburg Trails in Nuremburg, Germany in 1946 and was found guilty of war crimes including violation or law, or customs of war, murder, ill-treatment, deportation, forced labor, or destruction not military necessary. He was then executed in October.

__Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski__ By Trevor Provost and Tyler Bulkley

He was the head of the Lodz ghetto, he chose who was sent to the concentration camp. He made the Lodz ghetto the most productive industrial ghetto, which made them the last to be completely eliminated. He was labeled a collaborator because he chose who would die. He was murdered in Auschwitz.