Perpetrator

**Fritz Sauckel** Fritz Sauckel, born October 27, 1894, was a German Nazi. In 1942-1945, was the General Plenipotentiary for the Employment of Labor. This meant that he was in charge of deporting about five million German and foreign Jews to work camps for forced labor. Out of the five million enslaved, only 200,000 came willingly. Sauckel’s methods of gaining workers was said to be very harsh, violent and unsympathetic. He demanded that the workers were exploited “to the highest degree possible at the lowest conceivable degree of expenditure.” Sauckel cruelly wanted to use the workers as much as possible without giving them any credit or reward. His work with the Nazis resulted in thousands of Jewish deaths and helped Germany achieve “The Final Solution” of purifying the Aryan race.

__ REINHARD HEYDRICH __ Mickey Edwards and Henry Carroll Reinhard Heydrich was born in 1904 and died in 1942. Many people in Nazi Germany feared Reinhard Heydrich. He assisted Heinrich Himmler in his work in 1933. He was one of the most important perpetrators of the Holocaust and was highly respected by Hitler. Reinhard Heydrich led the meeting at Wannsee, where the decision was made to eliminate the Jews in Europe. Heydrich was also considered as a Jew because his father, Bruno Heydrich’s real name was S ü ss, which is a Jewish sounding name. Unfortunately, a man named Martin Bormann kept papers with information on Nazi leaders. But luckily, the documents on Heydrich only had his mother’s ancestry. So no one ever knew if he was really Jewish or not. In 1932, Heydrich joined the SS due to his hatred of Jews. He later became the leader of the Gestapo police service. 1941, Reinhard Heydrich became the protector of Bohemia and Moravia. He was appointed this job the year before the Wannsee meeting, which I explained before was the meeting that decided the Jewish Citizens’ fate. In May, 1942 Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated by British trained Czech partisans on his way to work. Soon after, one of the assassins was traced to a town called Lidace. Hitler then ordered for every living thing in that village to be killed. He then ordered that Lidace be taken off of all future maps of Europe.

__Joachim Von Ribbentrop__

Cody Bergeron, Ben LoGuidice, and Mike Marcovich Joachim was born on April 30, 1893. He was born of German nationality. Von Ribbentrop was a perpetrator because he worked for the Nazi party. He liked the idea of killing the Jews even though when he was little he had many Jew friends. He did nothing to stop the Holocaust. He was the foreign minister for Germany and the Nazi Party from 1938-1945. He was a failure. He tried to get Germany and Great Britain back together but failed at that. He also failed at getting a lot of countries to join the German alliance. As soon as Hitler killed himself in 1945 the position was taken away from him. During the Nuremburg Trials he was found guilty and was hanged on October 16 1946.

** Dr. Josef Mengele ** 1911 – 1979

Kelly Zullinger and Elizabeth Waldvogel

Josef Mengele is one of the most infamous German perpetrators of the Holocaust. He worked as a doctor in one of the worst concentration camps, Auschwitz. Famous for his deadly experiments on the Jewish prisoners, Mengele is what many called “the surviving symbol of Adolf Hitler’s ‘Final Solution’.” Known as the “Angel of Death”, Mengele took his greatest pleasure in experimenting on twins. During one incident, Mengele had one of his assistants gather a group of 14 sets of Gypsy twins. He had them all arranged on his dissecting tables, put to sleep and then proceeded in injecting chloroform into their hearts, killing them instantly. After their death, he dissected them all, noting every detail of each twin’s body. This is only one incident of many displaying Mengele’s twisted mind and the terrible effects of his deadly experiments,

**__ Hans Frank  __** {Wiki} -May 23, 1900-October 16, 1946 -German -Perpetrator By Michelle Makarian and Mary Deleberti

-I feel as if Hans Frank is a perpetrator, because he was the Nazi in charge. He was not the specific person that killed all of the Polish Jews, and some Polish. But he was the one that gave the orders and the ok to go ahead and kill all of them; he was the one who organized it. -German lawyer, who worked for the Nazi party. -Joined the German army after WW1. -Later in his life he became a high ranked official in Nazi Germany. -He was the Nazi Governor General {leader} of Poland from 1939-1945. -“He was a brutal leader who presided over the extinction of hundreds of thousands of Poles and the ghettoization of millions of Polish Jews, who were then sent to concentration camps. -Was captured by U.S. troops. -In May 1945 he was placed into trial at Nuremburg with the first group of Nazi war criminals. -He was convicted of crimes against humanity and was then hung. -Hans Frank’s impact that he left with the world, is not well known but it still was not a good one. He just went to show us that you don’t need to be handling a gun to be the one responsible for millions of innocent people’s deaths. He left a mark that we will never be able to recover from, because we can never get the lives back of those that we lost while Hans Frank was in charge of Poland.

Heinrich Himmler

By Mac Koss and Brent Ward

Heinrich Himmler was born on October 7th, 1900, in Munich, Germany. He was of the German nationality. In 1929, Adolf Hitler appointed Heinrich Himmler the leader of the SS, or Schutzstaffel. When Adolf Hitler came to power, he made Himmler the head of Munich Police and then the chief of the political police in Bavaria. When Ernst Roehm, head of the SA, or Nazi militia, was eliminated, Himmler’s SS became the major police of the country. In 1936, Himmler was named chief of the Gestapo, the secret police that was made in 1933 by Hermann Goering. By terrorizing his own parties’ hierarchy as well as German held Europe, Himmler was able to establish and oversee concentration camps and order the incarnation and death of millions. Himmler was one of the coldest blooded German Nazi leaders. In April 1945, just before the defeat of Germany in World War Two, Himmler secretly attempted to negotiate the German surrender, hoping to save himself. After hearing this, Hitler expelled Himmler from the Nazi party. Himmler attempted to escape, but was arrested by British troops in May, 1945, and committed suicide by biting down on a cyanide capsule on May 23, 1945. Himmler was a perpetrator because he was the one who ordered and killed millions of people. Himmler impacted the Holocaust by going on archaeological digs and making up bogus statistics to discover the master race origins. Himmler convinced everyone that there was a master race and that the Jews were of lesser importance than the Aryans. He was the one who orchestrated the Final Solution of the Jewish Question. The holocaust would not have been possible without this heartless man.

__Julius Streicher__

By Miriam Goldfield and Chelsea Ramos Julius Streicher was born on February 22, 1885 in Fleinhausen Bauaria, Germany. He joined the German army in 1914. Soon after, he received the Iron Cross for bravery and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. In 1922, he became acquainted with Adolf Hitler. In 1919 Streicher helped to establish Wistrich, an anti-Semetic organization. In 1923, Streicher founded and edited the racist newspapers, //Der Stuermer,// (1923-45) which he used to turn more people against the Jews. His newspaper and his speaking tours made him one of the best known leaders of Nazi Germany. Streicher was a **perpetrator** because he created “Der Stuermer” and he participated in the Nazi party. He died on October 16, 1946 by execution of hanging. Julius Streicher convinced many people to turn against the Jews because of his speeches and newspaper and if he hadn’t done this then a great deal of citizens would have stood up for the Jews and fought against the Nazis

**  Biographical Sketch   **** Heinrich Himmler ****   Joey Piccolo and David Redford ** Heinrich Himmler was born in Munich Germany on October 7, 1900. He committed suicide on May 23, 1945 while in British custody. He was a Roman Catholic. He directed construction of many concentration and death camps. Hitler liked Himmler a lot and Himmler was quickly promoted. He quickly built up the S.S. into a vast empire. The number of the S.S. officers’ sky rocked from 280 to 50,000 officers. He also set up “Bride” schools where brides were taught what was expected of them. He thought that the sacrifice of people in the concentration camps was necessary for the growth of Germany. Although his designees killed many Jewish people, he tried to negotiate a German official to surrender to the Allies, but was caught by Hitler. Heinrich Himmler would go under the category of a perpetrator because he was the one who came up with the designs of a concentration camp. If he wasn’t there, maybe they wouldn’t have been so effective and maybe the numbers of people killed would be lower. He also sort of became a resister because later in his life he tried to help the Allies against the Nazi regime. Himmler’s impact was a huge one. He made the designs that killed millions of innocent people. His designs were terrible, but also mastermind. He designed simple ways of killing mass amounts of people, and getting rid of evidence. If he wasn’t the one who created designs, the Holocaust might not have been such a huge part of American history. Maybe there wouldn’t have been a Holocaust at all.

**Adolf Eichmann** Matt Passmore and Brian Breault Adolf Eichmann – Born 1906 – Died 1962, Israel Nationality: German Adolf Eichmann planned out everything on how the Jews would die. He did an efficient job, meaning planning exactly how many Jews they could kill in a certain place. Adolf Eichmann was apart of the Wannsee Conference where he coordinated the murders (Berlin, January 1942). Eichmann issued the orders to when and where the deportations of the Jews occurred. He was also in control of confiscation Jews property. Eichmann went to one of the extermination camps to monitor their efficiency and progress. He is also responsible for the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Because of his choices against the Jews, he was a perpetrator.

** Walther Funk  ** 1890-1960     By Oliver Dumoulin, Lee Goglia, and Ben Gausepohl Walther Funk was born in 1890 in East Prussia. He was a perpetrator of the Holocaust because he supported and assisted Hitler. Funk dealt with economics for the Nazi party. He obtained financial and political support for Hitler which helped him gain power. In 1933, Funk became the Press Chief of the Reich Government. He eventually managed the German ministry of propaganda. He was the minister of economic affairs for Germany from 1937 to 1945. In 1939 he became the president of the Bank of Germany. Loot, like gold teeth, was taken from the prisoners of the concentration camps and sent here. Funk died in 1960 while he was 70 years old. Who knows if the Nazi party would have had the same economical support and funding if this man hadn’t acted. Perhaps they would have never even came to power without his help. Walther Funk was not only a perpetrator, but also had a huge influence on the Holocaust.

Joseph Goebbels Perpetrator (1897,-1945), German Nazi Minister of Propaganda By Michael McQuade and David Kinsley In March 1933, Goebbels was made Minister of Propaganda and Public Information, for the Nazi party. He ordered all "non-German" books burnt on May 10, 1933. In November 1938, it was Goebbels' idea to use the murder of a German representative in France, by a Jewish boy, to start a violent event against the Jews of Germany. He gave this violent event the name Kristallnacht. He turned the German population against their "enemies" by creating and spreading lies and hate, depicting Jews as creatures who were the Germans' greatest enemies. 1945 Hitler named Goebbels his successor, however Goebbels refused The day after Hitler committed suicide in his bunker. Goebbels and his wife followed, after ordering the execution of their six children.

Goebbels was truly a Perpetrator because of his position as Nazi Minister of Propaganda, he helped the German people feel that the Jews were inferior and that it was alright to treat them accordingly.