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Number 30:
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Heinrich Himmler. Chief of the SS, assistant chief of the Gestapo, and one of the architects
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of the Holocaust. He and Hitler had a falling out in the dog days of World War II after he
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tried to go behind the Fuhrer’s back to broker a peace deal - and Hitler ordered his arrest.
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Himmler slipped away from his former inner circle by disguising himself as a soldier.
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For a brief moment, it seemed like the architect of so much terror might vanish into the chaos of
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a collapsing Reich. After more than a week on the run, Himmler was captured by a patrol
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of former Soviet POWS on May 21st, 1945. He was then handed over to the British.
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But Himmler decided to settle his own trial out of court with a concealed
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cyanide pill the next day, causing a quick, but thankfully painful, death.
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But that’s nothing compared to some of the gruesome fates that awaited the top brass
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of the Nazi death machine. I’m Josh, and this is how every major Nazi leader died.
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Number 29:
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Adolf Eichmann was another one of the key players in the Holocaust - and if you’ve ever heard the
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phrase “the banality of evil,” it was coined in response to him. Eichmann was captured by
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Mossad agents in Argentina before standing trial in Israel - where he infamously took no
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responsibility for his crimes. He claimed that he was just an obedient bureaucrat following orders.
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Of course, that didn’t work.
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He was sentenced to death on December 15th, 1961. After some time on death
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row, he was taken to the gallows and hanged on May 31st, 1962. His body was cremated,
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and the ashes thrown into the mediterranean sea.
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If Eichmann claimed he was just shuffling papers,
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the next Nazi put on a lab coat and made cruelty disturbingly personal.
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Number 28:
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Known as “The Angel of Death”, Josef Mengele became infamous for his grotesque
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human experiments on innocent prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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He was also one of the many Nazis who fled to South America via the ratlines.
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But justice catches up with everyone eventually in one form or another.
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Mengele spent his last years broke, paranoid,
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and miserable. He was so afraid of getting caught that he chewed on his
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own hair until a ball of hair obstructed his intestines. But Mengele never did get caught.
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Instead, in 1979, he had a stroke while in his swimming pool,
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sinking to the bottom from paralysis and drowning in his last panicked minutes.
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And Mengele wasn’t the only one to face his reckoning.
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Number 27:
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Another powerful logistical force in the Holocaust, Reinhard Heydrich was one of the
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orchestrators behind Kristallnacht. He was so scary and brutal that Hitler called him,
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“the man with the iron heart.” Few were more feared and hated than Heydrich,
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but appropriately, he also had one of the most gruesome and painful deaths in the regime.
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Two Czechoslovak assassins ambushed Heydrich in Prague-Liben on May 27th,
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1942. After an attempt to gun the Nazi down failed, they threw a converted anti-tank
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mine at Heydrich’s car. The resulting explosion peppered his body with shrapnel.
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He suffered through a week of excruciating treatment as the infection took hold. Just
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as it seemed he might recover, Heydrich went into shock, slipped into a coma, and died on June 4th.
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Even the Fuhrer’s right-hand man couldn’t escape the inevitable.
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Number 26:
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Much like Himmler, Rudolf Hess was one of Hitler’s closest allies… until he decided
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to betray him. Hess was by Hitler’s side during the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch,
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helped him dictate Mein Kampf in prison, and acted as deputy Fuhrer until 1941. That’s
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when he made the completely bizarre decision to fly to Scotland to try to negotiate for peace.
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Arrested for being an enemy of peace and disowned by Hitler as a traitor, Hess would
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spend the next 46 years in prison, before meeting the reaper in 1987, aged 93. He decided to make a
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fashionable new necktie out of an extension cord, and then gravity did the rest for us.
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Hess was a traitor, but next, a master manipulator who nearly rewrote history.
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Number 25:
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Albert Speer was a monster with incredible PR.
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He was an accomplished architect, Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production,
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and a close friend of Adolf Hitler. He managed to avoid a death sentence at
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the Nuremberg Trials by convincing the public that he was an innocent
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figure swept up inside the Nazi machine - a statement which has been widely debunked.
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After getting out of prison in 1966, he made himself a grim international celebrity,
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giving interviews and writing extensively on the Third Reich from the inside - always
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painting himself as a lot nicer than he was, of course. He went to London in 1981 to participate
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in a TV interview program, where he suffered a stroke and dropped dead on September 1st.
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If you thought you’d seen evil, get ready - the next figure takes it to a whole new level.
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Number 24:
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Oskar Dirlewanger was called “The Worst Nazi” by some, which is really saying something.
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He was a psychopath and a sexual sadist of the worst kind, commander of the Dirlewanger Brigade,
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a penal unit made purely of violent prisoners. He and his men committed horrific atrocities
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across Eastern Europe, putting down uprisings and doing unimaginable things to civilians.
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He was arrested on June 1st, 1945, when trying to escape after the war ended,
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where he ended up in a detention center run by Polish guards. Interestingly,
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Dirlewanger died of “Natural Causes” within a week. Though really, when one
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of your nicknames is “The Butcher of Warsaw” and you end up in the hands of Polish guards,
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getting savagely beaten to death is a pretty natural cause for you to go out.
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Dirlewanger died violently… the next nazi would have a slower, lingering death.
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Number 23:
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Joachim von Ribbentrop was the sinister Foreign Minister that kept the Axis Powers working
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together in Europe with his dark diplomacy. He was also one of the major forces pushing
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for war between America and Imperial Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Even
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other Nazis didn’t like him - largely considering him to be dumb and boring.
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But he did have an achievement no other Nazi could claim to have.
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When Ribbentrop was captured after the war and put to trial, on October 16th,
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1946, he became the first ever Nazi to be put to death by hanging at Nuremberg. The
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hangman was U.S. Master Sergeant John C. Woods, who didn’t actually do a
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great job. Ribbentrop’s hanging was botched, meaning rather than having his neck broken,
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he was strangled exceedingly slowly - taking a full 14 minutes to die.
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Justice came painfully for Ribbentrop, but the next monster barely faced it at all.
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Number 22:
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Despite the name, there was nothing funky about Walther Funk. As the Reich Minister of Economics,
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President of the Reichsbank, and State Secretary at the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and
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Propaganda, he wore a lot of hats - but he sadly never wore the executioner’s hood.
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During the Nuremberg trials, he openly wept when the full extent of his contributions
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to the Holocaust were being discussed - arousing the sympathies of the jury just
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enough to get him life in prison instead of the death sentence. In 1957, he was given
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compassionate leave because his health was failing, but clearly it wasn’t failing that
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badly. He’d survive another 3 years before dying of complications from diabetes on May 31st, 1960.
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Some monsters met their punishment… others, like the next, got a quiet life instead.
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Number 21:
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A gifted Naval admiral and self-proclaimed Hitler fanboy, Karl Dönitz, was effectively
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appointed Hitler’s successor after the Fuhrer moved on to that big, flaming pit in the ground.
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Admittedly, it was because Göring - who’s coming up soon - had just royally annoyed
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Hitler. So the mustachioed menace was in a very “anyone but Göring” mindset.
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Dönitz tendered Germany’s ultimate surrender to the Allies before being convicted of war
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crimes at Nuremberg - where he insisted he followed the laws of war. He was sentenced
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to 10 years in prison, before being released and retiring to a small village near Hamburg.
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He died of a heart attack on Christmas Eve in 1980 at the age of 89.
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The next nazi decided to fact justice on his own terms
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Number 20:
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Hermann Goring was nasty piece of work and one of the most powerful Nazis of all. Among his
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many titles were Supreme Commander of the Air Force, Minister President of Prussia,
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Master of the German Hunt and Forests, and whatever other job he wanted.
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He was captured at the end of the war and at the Nuremberg trials,
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he was convicted of conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
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He was sentenced to death by hanging, despite requesting the firing squad.
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The night before his execution, October 15, he decided to take a cyanide pill to
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take the edge off, so he never felt the rope of the hangman’s noose against his throat.
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The next Nazi vanished so completely, even history had to hunt him down.
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Number 19:
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Martin Bormann is one of the most mysterious cases on this list. We
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know Bormann died and his remains have been discovered… but the big question is: “How?”
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As head of the Nazi Party Chancellery and private secretary to Adolf Hitler,
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he was considered a major part of the Nazi war machine. Even though he managed to evade capture,
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he was convicted and sentenced to death in absentia at the Nuremberg trials in 1946.
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He was missing for decades before his remains were found in Berlin in 1972,
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and identified as his in 1973. The most likely explanation was the
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ingestion of the convicted Nazi’s favorite diet supplement: Cyanide.
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The next monster’s reckoning would be brutal… and personal.
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Number 18:
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Rudolf Höss - not to be confused with Rudolf Hess - was the Commandant of Auschwitz where
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over a million people were murdered. After attempting to disappear under a false
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identity in 1946, he was caught by the British and extradited to
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Poland - where he stood trial for murder and eventually sentenced to death in 1947.
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Like many Nazis, he tried to dodge responsibility for his crimes. But strangely,
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what broke him was how kindly and humanely he was treated by the Polish while in prison. Only then,
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4 days before his execution, did he realise the terrible enormity of his crimes and
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admitted that his life needed to be taken as punishment. He was hanged on specially
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made gallows in front of 100 people, many of whom were survivors of his torturous camp.
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If you thought you’d seen cruelty so far, this next one takes it to a whole new level.
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Number 17:
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Described by Historian Michael Allen as, quote, “the vilest individual in the vilest
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organization ever known”, Odilo Globocnik was a pillar of Operation Reinhard - an organized
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slaughter of Polish Jews in what is known as the deadliest phase of the Holocaust. If you
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were having an evil guy competition and your opponent was Odilo Globocnik, you should quit.
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He fled when the Nazi Regime collapsed, only to be captured by the British cavalry in
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Austria on May 31st, 1945. He knew that, given just how severe his crimes were,
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he didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting out of this situation alive.
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But he did have a cyanide capsule, and decided that was the better option.
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In case you were wondering whether Odilo was going to hell,
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when they tried to bury his body at a local church yard, the priest told them to bury
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him outside the yard - he didn’t want the body buried on consecrated ground.
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Think that was bad? The next orchestrated horrors that make your skin crawl.
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Number 16:
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Paul Blobel was an mobile kill squad commander with two grim claims to fame. He orchestrated
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the Babi Yar Massacre in Kyiv, the largest single massacre of the Second World War, and he pioneered
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the so-called Gas Van - a mobile gas chamber used to execute prisoners. He personally copped
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to over 10,000 murders at trial, worse than likely every American serial killer in history combined.
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He was convicted for all this, and his attempts to cover up evidence of the
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Holocaust, at the Einsatzgruppen Trial of 1947 and 1948. In 1951, he was led,
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with a sullen look on his face, to the prison gallows, where he experienced a short drop and
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a sudden stop. A much kinder and more dignified death than many of his thousands of victims.
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The horrors keep escalating - the next killer turns atrocity into a terrifying art form.
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Number 15:
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One of the most cold-blooded killers in history, with over 100,000 victims,
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Friedrich Jeckeln carried out coordinated massacres that left Nazi-occupied parts of
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the Soviet Union in terror. His reign of murder destroyed countless lives - and his methods
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were chillingly systematic. There were days where he watched 25,000 prisoners killed in a
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row without experiencing so much as a flicker of emotion.
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No tears were shed for him when he was captured by the Russians in April, 1945,
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and taken to Latvia for “heavy interrogation” - which likely means they tortured the living hell
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out of him. And we can’t say we feel the least bit sorry about it. He was put in a military tribunal
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on February 3rd, found guilty, and hanged in front of a jubilant crowd of 4,000 that same afternoon.
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Not all monsters got the noose immediately…
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Number 14:
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As the commandant of two different brutal death camps, Sobibor and Treblinka, ex-cop Franz Stangl,
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has over a million human lives on his rap sheet. Before operating concentration camps,
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he was an SS officer and part of Aktion T4 - a Nazi initiative to
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murder disabled people as part of a wider eugenics program.
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After the war, he used the ratlines to flee to Brazil, eventually working at Volkswagen do
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Brasil for until his 1967 capture. Not once did he claim any responsibility for his horrific crimes,
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claiming he was acting in accordance with German law at the time. He was given a life sentence,
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which clearly took a toll on the already sickly Stangl.
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His health declined and he died of heart failure 4 years after getting locked up.
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Justice was swift for this next Reich member.
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Number 13:
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Following Heydrich getting blown up, Ernst Kaltenbrunner rose to the fore as one of the
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most powerful Nazi administrators out there. He acted as the third Chief of the Reich Security
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Main Office - which collectively oversaw dangerous groups like the Gestapo, the Kripo,
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and the intelligence department, the SD. His long record of aiding and abetting war crimes
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would come back to haunt him on October 1st, 1946, when he was sentenced to death by hanging.
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He was executed with the first batch of Nazis just 15 days later, being hanged
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and cremated - his ashes were rumored to be thrown into the River Isar in Munich.
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The list of dead Nazis leaders is growing… and the next name is about to be added.
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Number 12:
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Known as “The Beast of Belsen”, Josef Kramer was a walking SS nightmare. He was the commandant of
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both Auschwitz and the Bergen Belsen concentration camps, where he was personally responsible for
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the deaths of thousands. There’s no such thing as a nice death camp commandant,
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but Kramer was particularly sadistic. He delighted in beating and torturing prisoners,
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unleashing vicious dogs on them, and lining them up at mass graves to be gunned down en masse.
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He was captured by British forces and sentenced to death on November 17th,
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1945, for his crimes against humanity. Albert Pierrepont,
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a professional British hangman with over 400 executions to his own name,
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was the one to tie the noose around Kramer’s neck and pull the lever, sending him off to Old Nick.
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The Nazi leadership thought they could walk free… they were wrong.
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Number 11:
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Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski was both a member of the Nazi top brass,
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and the spearhead of the Nazi security warfare - an initiative to undermine and destroy the
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ideological opponents of the regime. He led the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944,
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killing thousands of civilians, and the cruel irony is, he didn’t even stand trial at Nuremberg.
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However, that didn’t mean he’d escape justice forever.
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He was arrested and tried in 1961 for his role in the violent Ernst Rohm purge,
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the Night of the Long Knives. He was then indicted again the next year for the murder of
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several Communists in 1933. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, and died of illness in 1972.
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Some Nazis thought time could protect
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them - the next learned the rope doesn’t wait… and it has backup.
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Number 10:
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Wilhelm Keitel was a figure so slimy that all the top Nazis except Hitler himself
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hated him. And that’s only because this military commander had a reputation for
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being Hitler’s number one fanboy. He ordered a number of brutal war crimes on Hitler’s behalf,
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and as such, when the war ended, there were some heavy consequences waiting for him.
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Keitel also experienced one of the most brutal deaths thanks to the incompetent team behind
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his 1946 hanging. The trap door that he and the other prisoners dropped through was too small,
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meaning he bashed his head on the way out, destroying the momentum of the drop.
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It resulted in a torturous 24 minutes of convulsions before eventually dying.
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This next Nazi met his maker but his body? No one knows where it is.
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Number 9:
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Known as Dr. Death and The Butcher of Mauthausen, Aribert Heim is lesser known than Josef Mengele,
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but may have been just as violent and sadistic. He conducted human experiments
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at the Mauthausen concentration camp - performing vivisections and amputations without anesthetic,
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injecting victims with gasoline, and even timing their deaths with a stopwatch for
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his own twisted amusement. He didn’t stand trial at Nuremberg, instead fleeing to Cairo,
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Egypt, and converting to Islam. He would later go by the name Tarek Farid Hussein.
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While many of the details are still foggy, a German court confirmed in 2012 that Heim had
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died back in 1992 from unknown causes. According to his son, Heim was buried in an unmarked grave,
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making it impossible for investigators to locate his remains for DNA testing.
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Now for someone who met his fate at the hands of the very people he terrorized.
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Number 8:
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Christian Wirth was so evil and despised that he was known as Christian the Cruel
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among his fellow officers. He threw himself into the mass euthanasia of the disabled and
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the murder of Nazi racial “undesirables” in Operation Reinhard with shocking,
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gleeful zeal. He was a force of terror across Yugoslavia in particular,
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so it would only be appropriate that he would meet his end at the hands of Yugoslavians.
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While traveling in an open-top car on military business on May 26th, 1944,
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he was shot by Yugoslav partisans, bringing his reign of terror to an end once and for all.
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The list keeps getting darker… and the next is one of the few women who belonged here.
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Number 7:
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A rare female high-ranking Nazi, Maria Mandl was yet another particularly
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cruel and violent concentration camp official at Auschwitz, Lichtenburg,
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and Ravensbrück. She was particularly infamous for physically beating prisoners to death,
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an act that she later framed as trying to do her duty to discipline prisoners. After her arrest,
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she was deemed complicit in the deaths of around 500,000 prisoners.
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Despite her attempts to receive clemency,
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she was sentenced to death by hanging, carried out on January 24th, 1948.
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Mandl paid the price for her brutality… the next escaped it entirely.
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Nazi Number 6: Eugen Fischer
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Eugen Fischer was a devoted Nazi thinker and director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of
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Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics. His theories around the Aryan master race were one
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of Hitler’s big philosophical inspirations. His pseudoscientific research helped shape
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Nazi eugenics. You can see the origins of the Holocaust in everything Fischer did.
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And sadly, despite being a member of the Nazi Party, he never faced
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any consequences for the role he played - dying of natural causes in 1967, aged 93.
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Now for someone who helped lay the foundation for the SS… and never lived to watch it grow.
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Number 5:
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You’ve probably never heard of Julius Schreck, but he was one of Hitler’s favorites. Schreck was a
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World War One veteran and early supporter of Adolf in his right wing paramilitary days. After that,
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he became a member of the Storm Detachment, or SA, and then, the first ever leader of the SS.
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He was also Hitler’s personal chauffeur - a man he truly considered a friend.
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He contracted meningitis in 1936, and died on May 16th. Without him,
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who’s to know if the SS would have become what it eventually did?
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In the Reich, betrayal didn’t just end careers - and the next man would discover that the hard way.
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Number 4:
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Karl-Otto Koch was a trailblazing concentration camp commandant, playing early roles at
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Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, and Majdanek - where he operated with his equally sadistic wife, Ilse. But
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it wasn’t the Allies that sought punishment for Koch, it was the Nazis. They discovered
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that he’d embezzled huge quantities of stolen loot from the inmates of the Buchenwald camp.
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The problem wasn’t that he was stealing from all these innocent people,
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but that he was stealing from the state by not cutting them in.
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He was arrested by his superiors and convicted of both embezzlement and the
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murder of 3 prisoners to cover up his crime. On April 5th, 1945, he was executed by his own
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government by firing squad. The Buchenwald Camp was liberated by the Americans a week later.
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Nazi Number 3: Amon Göth
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One of the more infamous concentration camp commandants among the general public,
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thanks to his role as the main villain of the movie Schindler’s List,
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where he was played by Ralph Fiennes. He was convicted of, quote, “personally killing,
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maiming and torturing a substantial, albeit unidentified number of people”,
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while ruling over the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp with an iron fist.
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After a trial in Krakow, he was hanged on September 13th, 1946,
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before having his body burned and his ashes thrown into the Vistula River.
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This next death would be even more symbolic.
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Number 2:
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Joseph Goebbels was a Nazi true believer - someone who was literally with Hitler
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until the bitter end. Goebbels was a master of propaganda whose lies stoked
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racial hatred in the German people and helped build a pretense for war. However,
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when Hitler died - more on that soon - Goebbels was left adrift in the world..
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But he didn’t actually do that.
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Instead, he gathered his entire family and decided they should all go out
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together instead. The children were given morphine, and then when they were asleep,
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cyanide capsules were crushed in their mouths. As for Goebbels and his wife, Magda,
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accounts differ. But the general consensus is they took cyanide. And then, per Goebbels’ request,
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one of the Nazi soldiers double tapped them all with a rifle just to make sure they were dead.
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But there’s one more death we still get to savor…
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Number 1:
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When it was clear that the Nazis wouldn’t be taking the dub on the war they started,
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Adolf Hitler decided the best victory was not getting murdered by the advancing Red Army.
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After writing his last will and testament, Hitler and Eva Braun treated themselves
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to a cyanide supper. But Hitler didn’t fancy dying with his guts foaming out of his mouth,
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so he had the barrel of his service pistol for dessert. His remaining
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minions dragged his corpse out to the courtyard and set it on fire - probably
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so the Soviets couldn’t repurpose it as a pinata when they took the bunker.
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But what about the Nazi leaders who didn’t meet the reaper? Check out “What Actually
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Happened to Nazi Leaders After World War 2? And More Nazi Stories”, or watch this instead.
