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Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), and a leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) of Germany. Himmler was one of ...
German architect and Minister of War Production (1905–1981)
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Albert Speer ( March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at ...
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Paul Thomas Mann ( MAN, MAHN; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly ...
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Saif al-Arab Gaddafi (Arabic: سيف العرب القذافي, lit. Sword of the Arabs; of the Gaddafa; 1982 – 30 April 2011) was the sixth son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. From around 2006 to 2010 ...
German female aviator and test pilot in German Luftwaffe dive bombers during World War II.
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Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg (née Schiller; 3 January 1903 – 8 April 1945) was an aviator who served as a test pilot in the Luftwaffe before and during World War II.
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Arthur Scherbius (30 October 1878 – 13 May 1929) was a German electrical engineer, inventor and pioneer who invented the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine. He patented the invention, and later ...
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Helmut Jahn (January 4, 1940 – May 8, 2021) was a German-American architect, known for designs such as the Sony Center on the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany; the Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany; the ...
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Josef "Pips" Priller (27 July 1915 – 20 May 1961) was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II, a fighter ace credited with 101 enemy aircraft shot down in 307 combat missions. All of his ...
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Andreas Maria Maximilian Freiherr von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim (born 30 September 1955) is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur, investor, and billionaire. He co-founded Sun Microsystems ...
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Captain Samantha Cristoforetti (born 26 April 1977) is an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight ...
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Gottfried Böhm (January 23, 1920 – 9 June 2021) was a German architect and sculptor. His reputation is based on creating highly sculptural buildings made of concrete, steel, and glass. Böhm's first in ...
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Viktor Hermann Brack (9 November 1904 – 2 June 1948) was a Nazi war criminal, the organiser of the Euthanasia Programme, Action T4, where the Nazi state systematically murdered nearly 15,000 disabled German ...
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Fritz Julius Kuhn (May 15, 1896 – December 14, 1951) was a German Nazi activist who served as elected leader of the German American Bund before World War II. He became a naturalized United States citizen ...
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Hans Kammler (26 August 1901 – 9 May 1945) was a German civil engineer and SS-Obergruppenführer during the Nazi era. He oversaw SS construction projects and towards the end of World War II was put in charge ...
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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz ( HURTS; 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations ...
German inventor and mechanical engineer (1858–1913)
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Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel ((listen ); 18 March 1858 – 29 September 1913) was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine, and for his suspicious death at ...
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Fritz Todt (4 September 1891 – 8 February 1942) was a German construction engineer and senior Nazi, who rose from the position of "Inspector General for German Roadways", where he directed the construction ...
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Paul Klinger (14 June 1907, Essen – 14 November 1971, Munich), whose real name was Paul Karl Heinrich Klinksik, was a German stage and film actor who also worked in radio drama and soundtrack dubbing.
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Robert Huber (born 20 February 1937) is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate. known for his work crystallizing an intramembrane protein important in photosynthesis and subsequently applying X-ray cr ...
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Georg Betz (15 June 1903 – 2 May 1945) was an SS officer (SS number: 625,419), who rose to the rank of SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer during World War II. Betz served as Adolf Hitler's personal co-pilot and Hans ...