Mémoires de Guerre

Jorgen Bentzon (14 février 1897, Copenhague - 9 juillet 1951, Hørsholm ) est un compositeur danois élève de Carl Nielsen et de Sigfrid Karg-Elert. Magistrat à Copenhague, il se consacre particulièrement à la promotion de l'éducation musicale. Il participe...

« J'ai voulu comprendre comment Jean Benedetti, mon oncle, avait traversé la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Formé à l'école de la Troisième République, chef de cabinet d'un ministre du Front populaire, préfet sous Vichy, déporté par les Allemands en 1944, c'est...

In a divided country on the brink of the Cold War, the hunt for a Nazi killer is more complicated—and more dangerous—than it seems. It's 1963, and the world is heating up. President John F. Kennedy, already wary of Castro, is coming to Ireland for a state...

Though he had less than three years in office, John F. Kennedy made a lasting and profound mark as U.S. president. Deftly handling the Cuban Missile Crisis and supporting civil rights laws and the space race, Kennedy represented the promise for a better...

Un livre publié par un historien du cinéma de l’Université d’Harvard affirme que les liens entre les Nazis et les studios de cinéma ont été bien plus profonds que l’on ne le croyait. Des films ont été volontairement censurés, éliminant des personnages...

Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (22 March 1902, Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Lower Franconia - 23/24 April 1945). The von Guttenberg family originates back to 1149 in Franconia (northern part of Bavaria) in the southern part of Germany. Karl...

Arnold Strippel (1911-94) was an SS man, employed in concentration camps from 1935 until the end of the war. First he was in Sachsenburg; then from July 1937 to March 1941 in Buchenwald as chief roll call leader (Rapportführer). From March 1941 he was...

Adolf Speck (1911-46) came as a guard to Neuengamme Concentration Camp and, in the same summer, was put in command of the concentration camp brickworks. He was known to be brutal and violent. On the night of the crime he was guarding the Soviet prisoners-of-war...

Hans Friedrich Petersen (1897-1967) was junior squad leader (Unterscharführer) and the driver for the Neuengamme Concentration Camp postal office. He drove the truck containing the children, their attendants, and six of the Soviet prisoners-of-war, who...

Ewald Jauch (1902-46) was initially employed as a guard (1940-44) and then as roll call leader (Rapportführer) in Neuengamme. From December 1944 he was section commander of the Bullenhuser Damm satellite camp. He, too, took part in the murder of the children...

Vladas Zajančkauskas (born December 27, 1915) is an alleged Nazi war criminal. He was born in Aukštadvaris, Lithuania. At age 95 (as of July 2010) he stands to become the oldest person ever deported as a result of an investigation by the U.S. Justice...

Hans Nieland (3 octobre 1900 à Hagen – 29 août 1976 à Reinbek près de Hambourg) était un homme politique du parti nazi allemand (NSDAP) et maire de Dresde de 1940 à 1945. Hans Nieland Carrière Jeunesse et éducation Nieland fut incorporé dans l'armée impériale...

Hans Fischböck (24 January 1895 - 3 July 1967) was an Austrian banker who was the economics minister and minister of finance of Austria and the finance minister of Nazi occupied Holland. He was born in Geras, Austria and studied in Vienna. From 1915 to...

Adolf von Bomhard (born 6 January 1891 in Augsburg - died 19 July 1976) was an SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Ordnungspolizei in the German Third Reich. In the post-war era he was Bürgermeister of Prien am Chiemsee. During the First World...

Johan Wilhelm (Jukka) Rangell (October 25, 1894 – March 12, 1982) was the Prime Minister of Finland from 1941 to 1943. Educated as a lawyer, he was a close acquaintance of President Risto Ryti before the war, and made his initial career as a banker in...

Johann Frahm (1901-46) trained in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp from 1939. From November 1942 he was in service in Neuengamme Concentration Camp; from 1944 he deputized for roll call leader (Rapportführer) Dreimann in the camp typing pool. He participated...

Wilhelm Dreimann (1904–46) was deployed from the Hamburg police force in 1940 as a guard in Neuengamme Concentration Camp. He carried out executions in the camp single-handedly. Prisoners identified him as the executioner of Neuengamme. According to evidence...

Edwin Johannes Hildegard Linkomies (December 22, 1894–September 9, 1963, until 1928 Edwin Flinck) was Prime Minister of Finland March 1943 to August 1944,[1] and one of the seven politicians sentenced to 5½ years in prison as allegedly responsible for...

Antti Kukkonen (3 October 1889, Kontiolahti - 14 February 1978) was a Finnish Lutheran pastor and politician. He was a member of the Agrarian League. He served as Deputy Minister of Education in Lauri Ingman's second cabinet (31 May 1924 - 22 November...

Johan (Juho) Emil Sunila (August 16, 1875 in Liminka – October 2, 1936 in Helsinki) was a Finnish politician from the Agrarian League, the managing director of the agrarian finance board, and Prime Minister of Finland in two cabinets. After Santeri Alkio...

Toivo Mikael Kivimäki (5 June 1886 – 6 May 1968), J.D., was head of the department of civil law at Helsinki University 1931–1956, Prime Minister of Finland 1932–1936, and Finland's ambassador to Berlin 1940–1944. In 1946, Kivimäki together with half-a-dozen...

Dr. Ernst Heinrich Schmidt (March 27, 1912 - November 28, 2000) was a German physician and SS-Hauptsturmführer, employed in a variety of Nazi concentration camps during World War II. He was tried in 1947 and 1975 for complicity in war crimes, but was...

Erich Wasicky (May 27, 1911 – May 28, 1947) was a pharmacist at the Mauthausen concentration camp in charge of gassing victims. Wasicky was a physician. He joined the NSDAP and was a member of the SS. Between 1941 and 1944, he worked as a pharmacist at...

Claus Karl Schilling (born 5 July 1871 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany; died 28 May 1946 in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, West Germany), also recorded as Klaus Schilling, was a German tropical medicine specialist, particularly remembered for his infamous participation...

Julius Ludolf (March 26, 1893—May 28, 1947) was an SS-Obersturmführer, a member of the Waffen-SS and commander of various satellite camps of Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Upper Austria. Julius Ludolf worked at concentration camps from January...

August Eigruber (16 April 1907 – 28 May 1947) was an Austrian-born Nazi Gauleiter of Reichsgau Oberdonau (Upper Danube) and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria, later hanged by the Allies. Born in Steyr, Austria, after finishing middle school, Eigruber underwent...

Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper (13 October 1883 in Schwerin – 23 October 1935 in Dessau) was a Nazi politician and a Nazi Gauleiter in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt. First Loeper became an ensign (Fahnenjunker) in Pioneer Battalion 2 in Spandau and then completed...

Paul Götze (November 13, 1903 - January 28, 1948) was an SS-Rottenführer at Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Born in Halle, Götze was a painter by profession. He joined the Nazi party in 1937 and the SS in 1942. In July 1942 he was posted...

Erich Adam Oskar Dinges (November 20, 1911, - ?) was an SS-Sturmmann and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial. Dinges was born in Frankfurt am Main. He worked as a driving instructor. He joined the...

Luise Danz (born December 11, 1917) is a former concentration camp guard. She was born in Walldorf (Werra), Thuringia. On January 24, 1943 at the age of 25, Luise Danz was conscripted as an Aufseherin within the Nazi concentration camp system. She served...

Alexander Bülow (born April 28, 1905) was an SS-Sturmmann and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial. Bülow was born in Andriówce. A farm worker, he was unable to read or write, until he joined the SS...

August Raimond Bogusch (August 5, 1890 - January 28, 1948) was an SS-Scharführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial. Bogusch was born in Lubliniec, Upper Silesia. He joined the Nazi Party in October...

Ernst Freiherr von Weizsäcker (May 25, 1882 – August 4, 1951) was a German diplomat and politician. He served as State Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1938 to 1943, and as German Ambassador to the Holy See from 1943 to 1945. He was a member of the...

Karl Ritter (June 5, 1883, Dörflas, Marktredwitz – July 31, 1968, Murnau am Staffelsee) was a German diplomat during the Third Reich and was convicted as a war criminal in the Ministries Trial. A member of the Nazi Party, he was ambassador to Brazil for...

Otto von Erdmannsdorff (1888–1978) was a German diplomat who served as ambassador to Hungary under the Nazis from 1937 to 1941, and was later acquitted of war crimes in the Ministries Trial. A member of the Saxon juridical service before the First World...

Hans Ehlich (born 1 July 1901, in Leipzig - 30 March 1991 in Braunschweig) was a doctor and SS-Standartenführer (Colonel) in Germany during World War II. He was the commander of Amtsgruppe III B "Volkstum und Volksgesundheit" in the SD in occupied Poland....

Werner Lorenz (October 2, 1891 – March 13, 1974) was SS head of the Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (English: Main Welfare Office for Ethnic Germans) (VOMI) an organization charged with settling ethnic Germans in the German Reich from other parts...

Herbert Hübner ( 7. August 1902 in Bad Salzschlirf ; unbekannt) war ein deutscher SS-Führer und verurteilter Kriegsverbrecher. Hübner absolvierte nach seiner Schulzeit eine Lehre zum Bankkaufmann und war anschließend in diesem Beruf tätig. Dem Jungdeutschen...

Ulrich Heinrich Emil Richard Greifelt (b. Berlin, Germany, 8 December 1896; d. Landsberg Prison, 6 February 1949) was an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) during the Nazi regime in Germany. He was found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg and died in Landsberg...

André Chabanne est un résistant (alias « Blanqui ») et homme politique français né le 3 avril 1914 à Cherves-Châtelars en Charente et décédé le 12 février 1963 à Beurlay en Charente-Maritime. Fils d'agriculteurs, orphelin de guerre, André Chabanne, est...