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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 3 years ago

Who were Hitler's top generals/leaders during the third Reich's reign from 1933-1945?

I'm very curious. I don't know why? Despite the power he had, he still had many people in very high positions to help him with Nazi germany. But ther had to be a few that he trusted more than any other person in the country. The people that come to mind are Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goring and Heinrich Himmler. But I could be wrong and missing something

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    The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II. The trials were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial and economic leadership of Nazi Germany, who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in the Holocaust and other war crimes. Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Hans Krebs and Joseph Goebbels had all committed suicide in the spring of 1945 to avoid capture, though Himmler was captured before his suicide and Krebs and Burgdorf committed suicide two days after that of Hitler's in the same place. Reinhard Heydrich had been assassinated by Czech partisans in 1942, so he was not included. Josef Terboven killed himself with dynamite in Norway in 1945. Adolf Eichmann fled to Argentina to avoid Allied capture, but was captured by Israel's intelligence service the Mossad, convicted of war crimes, and hanged in 1962. Hermann Göring was sentenced to death but committed suicide the night before his execution as a perceived act of defiance against his captors.

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