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This article is about former Nazis; for active groups, see: Neo-Nazism.

The title of ex-Nazi refers either to those few who were once Nazis and resigned from the party, or more often to those who belonged to the party at the time when the Nazi party was declared illegal and was disbanded upon the victory of the Allies. Many of the latter group had to go through a process of denazification and some were subjected to the Nuremberg process, while others managed to escape trial, in particular through the ODESSA organization. In the mid-1950s, most condemned during these trials were amnestied and subsequently released.

Famous Nazi hunters such as Simon Wiesenthal have tried to bring all accused of crimes to justice. However, only a few of them, famous figures such as Adolf Eichmann (judged and hanged in Jerusalem in 1962), have been found. Many others (Josef Mengele, Aribert Heim, etc.) escaped justice, finding refuge in Franquist Spain (e.g. Otto Skorzeny), South America (especially Juan Peron's Argentina, Augusto Pinochet's Chile, Alfredo Stroessner's Paraguay, Brazil, etc.) and also in some Arab states. Some former Nazis even managed to obtain very important positions in West Germany after the war (e.g. Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor of West Germany from 1966 to 1969, Hans Globke, who was Konrad Adenauer's national security adviser in 1960, etc.). Furthermore, a number of former Nazis were recruited by the CIA after the war (e.g. Otto Albrecht von Bolsching, assistant of Eichmann [1]), as part of the Gehlen Organization predecessor of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). Many Nazis scientists were also recruited by the US under the code-named Operation Paperclip.

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[edit] Nazis judged during the Nuremberg Trials

Further information: Nuremberg Trials

[edit] Nazis judged during the Doctors' Trial (1946-47)

Further information: Doctors' Trial

This list includes only, for obvious reasons, those who were not executed after the trial.

  • Hermann Becker-Freyseng. Stabsarzt in the Luftwaffe (Captain, Medical Service of the Air Force); and Chief of the Department for Aviation Medicine of the Chief of the Medical Service of the Luftwaffe. 20 years imprisonment commuted to ten years.
  • Wilhelm Beiglböck (1905-1963). NSDAP and SA member, Nazi medical researcher responsible for seawater experiments in Dachau concentration camp. 15 years imprisonment commuted to ten years. Became the chief physician of the Hospital of Buxtehude from 1952 to his death in 1963.
  • Kurt Blome. Charged of euthanasia and human experimentation. Acquitted and exfiltrated through Operation Paperclip (see below), and subsequently hired in 1951 by the US Army Chemical Corps to work on chemical warfare.
  • Fritz Fischer (1912-). Condemned to life imprisonment on charges of human experimentation, was subsequently released in 1954 and then worked, until retiring, for Boehringer-Ingelheim pharmaceutical company.
  • Karl Genzken (1885-1957). Chief of the medical office of the SS, charged of human experimentation, condemned in 1947 to life imprisonment, released in 1954.
  • Siegfried Handloser (1895-1954) . Chief of the German Armed Forces Medical Service, condemned to life sentence in 1947, released in 1954, and died shortly afterwards of a cancer.
  • Herta Oberheuser (1911-1978). Doctor at Ravensbrück concentration camp, sentenced to 20 years emprisonment for human experimentation. Released in 1952, became a family doctor before being recognized by a Ravensbrück survivor in 1956, and subsequently losing her medical licence two years afterwards.
  • Helmut Poppendick (1902-1994). Chief of the Personal Staff of the Reich Physician SS and Police, sentenced to 10 years emprisonment for human experiments carried on in Ravensbrück. Released in 1951.
  • Gerhard Rose. Generalarzt of the Luftwaffe (Brigadier General, Medical Service of the Air Force); Vice President, Chief of the Department for Tropical Medicine, and Professor of the Robert Koch Institute; and Hygienic Adviser for Tropical Medicine to the Chief of the Medical Service of the Luftwaffe. Judged guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, sentenced to life emprisonment, later comuted to 20 years.
  • Paul Rostock (1892-1956). Chief of the Office for Medical Science and Research (Amtschef der Dienststelle Medizinische Wissenschaft und Forschung) under Third Reich Commissioner Karl Brandt and a Full Professor, Medical Doctorate, Medical Superintendent of the University of Berlin Surgical Clinic. Charged of human experimentation during the Doctors' Trial, acquitted. Then worked as medical supervisor of Versorgungs Hospital in Bayreuth, from 1953 to his death at age 64 in Bad Tolz.

[edit] Subsequent Nuremberg Trials

Further information: Subsequent Nuremberg Trials
  • Erhard Milch (1892-1972). Generalfeldmarschall, worked under Albert Speer. Life sentence during the Milch Trial, released in 1954 and then lived until his death in Düsseldorf.
  • Franz Schlegelberger (1876-1970). State Secretary in the German Reich Ministry of Justice (RMJ) and served awhile as Justice Minister during the Third Reich. He was the highest-ranking defendant at the Judges' Trial. Received life sentence for conspiracy to perpetrate war crimes and crimes against humanity. Released in 1950 owing to incapacity. For years afterward, he drew a monthly pension of DM 2,894 (for comparison, the average monthly income in Germany at that time was DM 535) and lived in Flensburg. Ernst Lauz and Curt Rothenberg also received pensions after their release in the mid-1950s. 16 German jurists and lawyers were then judged, all convicted, and most released in the mid-1950s.
  • Friedrich Flick (1883-1972). Judged in the Flick trial, sentenced to 7 years.
  • Otto Steinbrinck (1888-1949). Sentenced to six years emprisonment during the Flick Trial, died in custody before the wave of general amnesty in the mid-1950s.
  • Wilhelm List (1891-1971). Field marshall. Sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Hostages Trial. Released in 1952 because of poor health.
  • Maximilian von Weichs (1881-1954). General Field Marshall. Accused of war crimes, he escaped judgment at the Hostages Trial because of his health. He died at Burg Rötsberg near Bonn.
  • Lothar Rendulic (1887-1971). Austrian Colonel General of the Wehrmacht. Sentenced to 20 years emprisonment during the Hostages Trial, released in 1951 and subsequently started writing.
  • Werner Lorenz (1891-1974). Sentenced to 20 years imprisonment at the RuSHA Trial, released in 1955.
  • Otto Hofmann (1896-1982). Sentenced to 25 years imprisonment on charges of war crimes at the RuSHA trial, released in 1954.
  • Franz Six (1909-1965). Sentenced to 20 years imprisonment at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, released in 1952.
  • Alfried Krupp (1907-1967). Sentenced to 12 years plus forfeiture of property at the Krupp Trial, his sentence was finally overturned by John J. McCloy, High Commissionner of the American Zone of Occupation.
  • Ernst von Weizsäcker (1882-1951). Ambassador to the Vatican. Sentenced to 7 years imprisonment at the Ministries Trial, released in October 1950, taking advantage of one of the first amnesty.
  • Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903-1960). Leader of the Foreign Organisation of the NSDAP. Sentenced to 5 years imprisonment at the Ministries Trial, pardoned in 1949 by John J. McCloy. Merchant after the war, he gave impulse to the refoundation of an organisation for the development of German South-African interstate commerce. Through some stages, to whom belonged so called Südafrikanische Studiengesellschaften (English: South-African Study Societies) in Hamburg, Stuttgart, Munich and Düsseldorf since the beginning of 1950 (the Düsseldorf Circle was led by Third Reich's Press Chief Otto Dietrich) the Deutsch-Südafrikanischen Gesellschaft (DSAG) arose again in 1965.
  • Otto Dietrich (1897-1952). Press Chief of the Third Reich. 7 years imprisonment, released in 1951.
  • Hans Lammers (1879-1962). Head of the Reich Chancellery. Sentenced to 20 years during the Ministries Trial, released in 1952.
  • Wilhelm Stuckart (1902-1953). Secretary of State in the Interior Minister. Freed after the Ministries Trial after being sentenced three years, which he had already served. Died in 1953 of a car crash. Some have speculated that he was assassinated by Nazi hunters.
  • R. Walther Darré (1895-1953). Minister for Food and Agriculture (1933-42). Sentenced to 7 years during the Ministries Trial, released in 1950, died three years later of cancer of the liver.
  • Otto Meissner (1880-1953). Head of the Presidential Chancellery. Acquitted during the Ministries' Trial.
  • Gottlob Berger (1896-1975). Chief of Staff of the SS. Co-author of Heinrich Himmler's pamphlet, Der Untermensch. Sentenced to 25 years during the Ministries' Trial, released in 1951.
  • Walter Schellenberg (1910-1952). Head of Foreign Intelligence. Sentenced to 7 years during the Ministries' Trial. Released in 1951, lived hereafter in Verbania (Italy).
  • Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (1887-1977). Finance Minister. Sentenced to 10 years at the Ministries' Trial. Released in 1951. Then wrote his memoirs and books on economic policy, before quietly dying in Essen, aged 89.
  • Paul Pleiger (1889-1985). Head of the Hermann-Göring-Werke (confiscated steel plants employing slave laborers). Sentenced to 15 years at the Ministries' Trial. Released in 1951.

[edit] Prominent ex-NSDAP Members

The following is a list of influential people who were NSDAP members.

[edit] Austria

[edit] West Germany

[edit] Middle East

[edit] South America

[edit] United States of America

Over 1,500 German and other foreign scientists, technicians, and engineers were brought to the United States under Project Paperclip and similar programs [4]. A non-exhaustive list include:

  • Kurt Blome. Judged during the Doctors' Trial, hired in 1951 by the US Army Chemical Corps to work on chemical warfare. Eventually, Blome was arrested by French authorities, convicted of war crimes, and sentenced to 20 years in prison.(See above).
  • Wernher von Braun, SS Major; NSDAP membership; NSFK; Rocket scientist of both the Nazi rocket Vergeltungswaffen or "revenge weapons" program and later NASA.
  • Arthur Rudolph, NSDAP member, Rocket scientist of the Nazi rocket Vergeltungswaffen (V2) and later NASA. According to the US government, he left the US in 1984 following the Department of Justice's discovery of his role in the persecution of prisoners at the Nordhausen factory [4]
  • Bernhard Tessmann (1912-1998)
  • Georg Rickhey, a former official at the Nordhausen underground V-2 rocket factory who arrived in 1946 but who left the United States in 1947 when he was tried (and acquitted) for war crimes by a U.S. military tribunal [4]
  • Walter Schreiber (1893-?), who had been instrumental in medical experiments on concentration camp inmates and who fled the United States to Argentina in 1952 after the appearance of a newspaper column about his activities [4]
  • Alexander Lippisch (1894-1976)
  • Hans von Ohain (1911-1998) One of the inventor of jet propulsion he became director of the US Air Force Aeronautical Research Laboratory and by 1975 he was the Chief Scientist of the Aero Propulsion Laboratory there.
  • Kurt Lehovec (one of the physicists responsible for the invention of the integrated circuit)
  • Hubertus Strughold (father of US space medicine)

[edit] Nazis or/and Nazis collaborators who worked for the US secret services after the war

[edit] Nazis or/and Nazis collaborators who worked for the British secret services after the war

[edit] Spain

[edit] Members Who Resigned

[edit] Living Nazis

This is a list of NSDAP members that are still alive and presumed/considered war criminals. Due to the fact that there have been many Nazis living as fugitives since that time, the fate of many remain unknown, see below:

[edit] Known to be alive

[edit] Believed to be alive

These people have not been confirmed to be alive, but believed by some to be.

  • Wilhelm Gideon - born 1898. Much like Heinrich Muller (below), if Gideon is still alive, he would be in his 109th year. [2]
  • Martin Hellinger - born 1904 [3] and [4]
  • Hermann Hackmann - born 1913
  • Alois Brunner - born 1912, Believed by some to live in Brazil or Syria under alias Dr. Georg Fischer. Responsible for the deaths of 140,000 Jews, head of Drancy internment camp near Paris. Worked for the Gehlen Org after the war and then fled to Syria.
  • Lorenz Hackenholt. NCO in charge of gassing at KZ Belzec ([5][6] and [7]).
  • Aribert Heim a.k.a. 'Dr. Death' - born 1913, Believed to have lived in Spain until October 2005, at which time he possibly relocated to Denmark. As of May 2006, he was believed to be in Chile.
  • Heinrich Müller - born 1900, Believed to have died in Führerbunker, but subject to many conspiracy theories about his possible survival. It should be noted, however, that if Müller were still alive, he would be more than 106 years old.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Why Israel's capture of Eichmann caused panic at the CIA, The Guardian, June 8, 2006
  2. ^ CIA Ties With Ex-Nazis Shown, The Washington Post, June 7, 2006
  3. ^ AGI, La strage nazista di San Polo - il tribunale militare di la spezia assolve Handsk, 27 February 2007 [1] (Italian)
  4. ^ a b c d Foreign Scientist Case Files 1945-1958, on the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) website
  5. ^ (Spanish) Martinez, Félix, Nando Garcia. "A la caza del ultimo Nazi", El Mundo, 2005-10-30. Retrieved on July 6, 2006.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War, Christopher Simpson
  • The Encyclopedia of World War II Spies, Peter Kross, Barricade Books, 2001.
  • "CIA's Worst-Kept Secret" Consortiumnews.com, May 16, 2001.
  • Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage, Norman Polmar & Thomas Allen, Random House, 1997.
  • Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency, W. Thomas Smith, Facts on File, Inc., 2003

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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