Based on IGCSE syllabus covering Germany. Concentrates on Hitler and his henchmen.

1. HITLER AND HIS
HENCHMEN
The Early Nazi Leaders

2. Josef Goebbels
• Did not fight in the WW I due to crippled foot
• Intelligent, well educated and a brilliant public speaker
• Joined the Nazis in 1922
• Editor of the Nazi newspaper Volkische Freiheit
(People’s Freedom)

4. Hermann Goering
• Fought in the airforce in the WW I
• Won the highest medal for bravery under fire
• Loud, swaggering character. Intelligent, witty and charming but
also vain and greedy
• Joined the Nazis in 1922
• In charge of the SA

6. Rudolf Hess
• Soldier and a pilot in the WW I
• Joined the Nazis in 1920
• Worshipped Hitler.
• Not ambitious
• Initially Hitler’s private secretary and later responsible for party
administration

8. Heinrich Himmler
• Brief stint into the WW I
• Frail and timid youth but hard-working and precise.
• Joined the Nazis in 1923
• Early post- Gauleiter (regional party chief)

10. Ernst Rohm
• Captain in the Germany army during the WW I
• Tough, brutal and efficient leader with a violent temper
• Joined the Freikorps and helped in crushing the Sparticist Rising
• Founder member of the German Worker’s Party in 1919
• Supported Hitler and ran the SA for Hitler in 1921