This document provides information on six high-ranking Nazi officials: Heinrich Himmler, Herman Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Martin Bormann, Albert Speer, and Wilhelm Keitel. It summarizes their roles and positions of power within Nazi Germany, with Himmler in charge of the police and SS, Göring as Hitler's deputy and commander of the Luftwaffe, Goebbels as Minister of Propaganda, Bormann as Hitler's private secretary, Speer as Minister of Armaments, and Keitel and Jodl as heads of the German armed forces high command.

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5. Heinrich Himmler
• Chief of German Police in the
Reich Ministry of the Interior
– This meant he was in charge of
the administration of the Waffen-
SS (Hilter’s own private army), the
army, and the police services.
– Hitler called him "der treue
Heinrich" (the loyal Heinrich).
– Easily considered the most
powerful man in Germany, after
Hitler.
– One of the people most directly
responsible for the Holocaust.

6. Heinrich Himmler

7. Herman Göring
• Hitler designated him as his
successor and deputy in all
his offices.
– A veteran of World War I as
an ace fighter pilot.
– He founded the Gestapo in
1933.
– Göring was appointed
commander-in-chief of the
Luftwaffe (air force) in 1935,
a position he held until the
final days of World War II.

8. Herman Göring

9. Joseph Goebbels
• Reich Minister of
Propaganda in Nazi
Germany
– One of Adolf Hitler's
closest associates and
most devout followers.
– Known for his zealous
orations and visceral and
homicidal antisemitism.
– Goebbels remained with
Hitler in Berlin to the end.

10. Joseph Goebbels

11. Martin Bormann
• Private secretary to Adolf
Hitler.
– He gained Hitler's trust and
derived immense power
within the Third Reich by
using his position to control
the flow of information and
access to Hitler.
– He was almost always at his
Führer′s side.

12. Martin Bormann

13. Albert Speer
• Chief architect of Nazi
Germany.
– Minister of Armaments and
War Production for the Third
Reich.
– As "the Nazi who said sorry”, he
accepted moral responsibility at
the Nuremberg trials and in his
memoirs for complicity in
crimes of the Nazi regime.

14. Wilhelm Keitel
• Head of the Oberkommando
der Wehrmacht
– One of Germany's most senior
military leaders during World
War II.
– The only one present at
Wolf's Lair assassination plot
not to suffer a perforated
eardrum from the bomb blast.

15. Wilhelm Keitel

16. Alfred Jodl
• Chief of the Oberkommando
der Wehrmacht
– Signed the unconditional
surrender of Germany.

17. Alfred Jodl