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Born in Waldsee (Württemberg), son of a baker. Doctorate in
Law in 1932. Joined the Nazi Party in April 1933. As a senior public prosecutor,
he was office manager for Hans Frank, Reich minister without portfolio. Promoted
in 1939 to ministerial junior assistant secretary; in December of that year,
became office head for Governor General Hans Frank at Cracow. In March 1940 he
became Frank's undersecretary, and in July 1941 his deputy. Participated in the
introduction of distinguishing marks for Jews, the establishment of ghettos, and
the "special pacification operation" of May-June 1940, in which 3,500
Polish intellectuals were killed.
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Born in Solingen, son of a bookkeeper. After abandoning his
studies, he worked as a salesman from 1925 to 1927, then as a sales representative. Joined the Nazi Party and the SS in April 1932. Military
training in 1933; active in the fall of 1934 in the SS Security Service (SD) in
Berlin, and as of 1935 in Section II/112 (Jewry). Director of the Centers for
Jewish Emigration in Vienna and Prague in 1938-1939. Drew up plans for a "Jewish
reservation" in Nisko on the river San (Poland) in October 1939. In
December 1939, Eichmann took over Section IV D4 (Emigration, Evacuation) in the
Reich Security Main Office, then Section IV B4 (Jewish Affairs and Evacuations)
in March 1941. In August 1941, he visited Auschwitz and discussed plans for
deportation and extermination. Eichmann was made an SS lieutenant colonel in
November 1941.
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Born in Celle, son of an engineer. War service
as officer cadet in 1914, prisoner of war in Russia in October 1915. Close contacts with the
Bolsheviks. Return to Germany in 1920. Doctor of law degree in 1922 from Jena University. From
1924 on, worked as a lawyer in Kassel and as city councilor for the Völkisch-Social bloc.
Joined the Nazi Party in July 1925 and worked regularly for the party on political crime cases.
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Born in Halle, the son of a composer and director of a conservatory. Catholic high school. Freecorps fighter in 1920. Joined the German
Navy in 1922. In 1926, appointed naval lieutenant, intelligence and signal officer. Dishonorable discharge as first lieutenant in 1931. Joined the Nazi
Party and the SS in 1931. In July 1932, Himmler entrusted Heydrich with
organisation of the Security Service (SD) for the surveillance of political opponents.
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Born in Innsbruck, son of a businessman. Volunteered for
military service in August 1914, made second lieutenant in March 1917. Taken
prisoner of war in Russia in June 1917, escaped in August, then trained as a pilot. Demobilized in 1919. Worked in the wholesale wine business from
1920-1925, and later as a self-employed wine salesman. Joined the Nazi Party in
1923 and the SS in April 1931. Starting in 1933, Hofmann was a full-time SS leader.
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Born in Schreibersdorf near Lauban (Silesia), son of a
farmer.
Freecorps volunteer in 1923. Doctor of law degree in 1927; appointed judge to a
Düsseldorf district court in 1931. Joined the Nazi Party and the stormtroopers
in April 1933. At the end of 1933, became a departmental official in the
Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, 1934 in the State Secret Police Office. Moved
from there in April 1935 to the Staff of the "Führer's Deputy,"
Rudolf Hess. Joined the SS in 1935 and became section manager on Hess's staff.
Senior executive officer in 1936. As a ministerial junior assistant secretary in
1938, he dealt with the expropriation of Jewish businesses.
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Born a parson's son in Grünfier (Netze district). Studied law; served from 1914-1918 at the front,
ultimately as a second lieutenant. Prisoner of war in France from 1918-1920. Assessor in 1921, then
employed in the Reich Ministry of Justice. Associate judge with the Prussian Ministry of Trade in
1925-1926. Returned to Reich Ministry of Justice in 1926. Became ministerial junior assistant
secretary in 1930. Participated in 1934 in drafting a law to legalize the killings of June 30,1934.
Several jurisdictional conflicts with the Gestapo in 1935-1936 regarding "protective custody."
For this reason, Kritzinger applied in 1938 for a transfer to the Reich Chancellery, where he served
as section leader with the rank of ministerial secretary. Joined the Nazi Party.
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Born in Weisswasser (district of Liegnitz), son of a railway
construction supervisor. Studied law, and in 1933 worked for the Gestapo in
Halle. Joined the stormtroopers in November 1933. Doctor of law degree in 1934.
Employed by the Secret State Police Office in 1936, he joined the Nazi Party and
the SS in 1937. Worked for the Vienna Gestapo in 1938. In 1939, Lange became an
administrative councilor with the Gestapo in Stuttgart. SS captain and chief of
the Weimar and Erfurt Gestapo in 1940. In September 1940, he was named deputy to
the chief of the Berlin Gestapo. Attained rank of SS major in 1941.
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