A PowerPoint I made for school that talks about the military force of Nazi Germany.

1. By
Dustin
Fridolfson.
P. 3

2. There were many divisions of the Reichs
army, But the main branches were well
known throughout the world, each for their
own, specialized reasons.
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Different roles and insignias.

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The Whermacht was the main military force of Nazi Germany. It
consisted of the Heer, (army) Luftwaffe, (Air force) and Kreigsmarine
(Navy)
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Led by Reichmarshall Hermann Göring (Luftwaffe) Grand Admiral
Karl Donitz (Kreigsmarine)
Hermann Goering
Karl Donitz
Waffen SS B.D.U.

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The SS was Under Heinrich Himmler’s leadership (1929–45)and it grew from a small
paramilitary formation to one of the largest and most powerful organizations in the
Reich. Many different units, in charge of different roles throughout the Reich.
SS-Totenkopfverbände: is one of the most well known of the SS unit’s. Also known as
the “Death heads” they were in charge of the Concentration camps.
Waffen-SS: The combat unit of the SS, they were elites who fought with the standard
Whermacht forces.
Gestapo: The secret police force of the fatherland. Administrated by Officers of the
SS.
Other branches; Kirpo, SD.
Heinrich Himmler

5.  German,
Nazi SSObersturmbannführer (lieutenant
colonel) and one of the major
organizers of the Holocaust.
 Due to his organizational talents and
ideological reliability, he was tasked
by Obergruppenführer Reinhard
Heydrich to facilitate and manage the
logistics of mass deportation to
Ghettos in German occupied Europe
1939 – 1944 and extermination
camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern
Europe.
Adolf Eichmann
Reinhard Heydrich

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A large, elite panzer division led by one of the wars most
notorious generals, Erwin Rommel. (The desert fox)
It was sent to Libya to aid the Italian army in blocking the
Allies from Italy.
StuG III
“Tiger” Tank
Erwin Rommel

7.  The
SA were the Brown uniform
wearing, bodyguard regiment for High ranking
officers and the Führer.
 Weren’t as powerful or ranking as the SS
officers. (Weren’t fully dedicated to Hitler and his
Ideals, and were soon out-ranked and underpowered by the SS.)
 Oberster SA-Führer Emil Maurice was in charge
of the SA.
Emil Maurice

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7,057 suicides among Nazi leaders and SS Officers form Hitler's death, until
a little after the end of the war.
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Joseph Goebbels had others poison his six children with morphine before
him and his wife both shot themselves.
Josef Terboven committed suicide after hearing of Hitler’s death by setting
off 50 kilograms (110.2 lbs.) of dynamite in his bunker.
Heinrich Himmler who established the first concentration camp and was the
prime architect of the Holocaust, organizing death camps was captured and
then poisoned himself.
The main reason for Nazis suicide was a loss of hope and fear of the
future. Finally, the fear of prosecution was a large reason for Nazi’s
suicides.
Hermann Goering In 1946 he was arrested, convicted at the Nuremberg
Trials, and sentenced to death by hanging. Hours before his death, Goering
poisoned himself with a cyanide pill. His last words were left in a note for the
founders of his body.
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