This series from the Contemporary History team at ZDF follows in the footsteps of the internationally acclaimed documentary series "Hitler - An Analysis" and is dedicated to understanding the paladins who so ably served their Führer.

Hess, an early and devoted follower of Nazism, participated in Hitler’s failed “Beer Hall Putsch” in 1923. Half war monger, half comedian - more than any of Hitler's other helpers Hermann Göring embodied the two-faced deception which permeated the murderous Nazi regime.In Hitler’s Henchmen, Helmut Ortner uncovers the full stories of Reichhart, Strippel, Schwinge and others like them, Nazi perpetrators who enjoyed post-war careers as judges, university professors, doctors and politicians. Their careers, actions, attitudes, quirks and foibles are recounted with journalistic precision, and hint at a fascinating variety of personal psychopathologies. An honorary member of the SS, Lammers, along with Martin Bormann, increasingly controlled access to Hitler. As with Franz Stangl, Viktor Brack was one of the prominent organizers of the euthanasia program Aktion T4. Leader of the Austrian SS and subsequently of all police forces in Nazi Germany, Ernst Kaltenbrunner was a committed anti-Semite and fanatical Hitler loyalist.

Biography: Guido Knopp is Head of History and Current Affairs for ZDF, Germany's second national TV channel. Commander of the German Navy’s U-boats until 1943, then took over from Raeder as Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy and was promoted to Grand-Admiral.Yes, I'm aware there should be some umlauts there but I can't work out how to do them on my keyboard. The Nazi dictator had at his command a criminal circle of deranged henchmen who in turn organized the murder of millions of people, most of them Jews, in what became known as the Holocaust. He escaped but was picked up by Allied forces while disguised as a common soldier and committed suicide. Joseph Goebbels was Reichsminister for Propaganda having control over all news media, art and public information in Germany. He was taken prisoner and eventually convicted of crimes against humanity and served a life sentence until his suicide in 1987.

Himmler was made head of the SS, Hitler's personal guard, and would later become the prime mover behind the Holocaust. K. At the Nuremburg Trials he was tried and convicted for his role in starting the Second World War. Field Marshal of the German Army (Wehrmacht), Chief of the Supreme High Command of the German Armed Forces (OKW) and Chief of Defence for Germany, Hitler’s Chief of Staff. In 1937 the Nazi Party formed a new state-owned automobile company which was eventually named Volkswagenwert, or “The People’s Car Company”.This biography of Heinrich Himmler allows the reader to look into the details of the life and evolution of the Holocaust driven by this acolyte of Adolf Hitler. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.