List of Nazis of non-Germanic descent
List of Nazis of non-Germanic descent, including notable people in Nazi German service, such as Schutzstaffel members, who had some non-German ancestry. Notably, there were several high-ranking Nazis of full and partial Jewish descent. There were also many of full or partial Slavic descent. See Nuremberg Laws for further information on the status of non-Aryan people in Nazi Germany.
OKW and OKH secret reports show that half-Jews could only serve in Ersatzreserve II or Landwehr II, while quarter-Jews remained in the Wehrmacht and were eligible for promotion.[1] Employment or promotion of quarter-Jews required Hitler's approval.[1] Cambridge University researcher Bryan Rigg noted that there were two field marshals and fifteen generals (two full generals, eight lieutenant generals, five major generals) who were Jews or of partial Jewish descent.[2] Rigg estimated that there were 150,000 men of some Jewish descent that served in the German armed forces during World War II. 1,671 have been identified (as of 2010).[3] Hitler personally issued German Blood papers to mischlings (mixed Jewish) for their continuing service.[3]
- Johannes Blaskowitz, German general, Germanized-Slovenian descent
- Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Prussian, SS-Obergruppenführer, Polish-Kashubian nobility
- Leonardo Conti, Swiss, Reichsgesundheitsführer, Italian father and German mother
- Bernhard Rogge, admiral, Jewish ancestry[3]
- Richard Walther Darré, German Nazi, SS-Obergruppenführer, Huguenot father[4]
- Hans Eppinger, Austrian, SS doctor, half-Jewish[3]
- Adolf Galland, German, Luftwaffe general, Huguenot ancestry[5]
- Wilhelm-Ferdinand Galland, German, Luftwaffe ace, Huguenot ancestry[5]
- Hermann Baranowski, German Nazi, SS-Oberführer, Germanized Polish descent
- Gordon Gollob, Austrian, Luftwaffe, mixed ancestry
- Alfred Grislawski, German, Luftwaffe ace, Germanised Ruhr Polish
- Karl Chmielewski, German Nazi, Germanized-Polish descent
- Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Slovene descent[6]
- Eugen Hadamovsky, German Nazi, paternal Germanised Czech descent
- Bronislav Kaminski, Russian (of mixed Belarusian-Polish descent on father’s side, German on mother’s side)
- Erich Kempka, German Nazi, SS-Obersturmbannführer, Ruhr Polish descent[7]
- Halim Malkoč (1917–1947), Bosnian volunteer, SS-Obersturmführer, Bosnian Muslim
- Erich von Manstein (1887–1973), German, Wehrmacht Generalfeldmarschall, paternal Prussian Kashubian[8]
- Hans-Joachim Marseille, German, Luftwaffe ace, paternal Huguenot descent
- Victor Matthys, Belgian Rexist
- Emil Maurice,[9] German Nazi, Jewish great-grandfather
- Christian de la Mazière, French Nazi
- Erhard Milch, German, Wehrmacht Generalfeldmarschall, Jewish father (reclassified as Aryan by Adolf Hitler)
- Martin James Monti, American defector to the Nazis, SS-Untersturmführer, Swiss Italian father and German mother[10]
- Joachim Mrugowsky, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent[11]
- Karl Nicolussi-Leck, Austrian Nazi, Tyrolian
- Franz Novak, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Carinthian Slovene descent
- Walter Nowotny, Austrian, Luftwaffe ace, Germanised Czech descent
- Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, German, Wehrmacht Generalmajor, Germanised Polish descent
- Harry Paletta, German Nazi, West Prussian
- Helmuth von Pannwitz, Lusatian nobility
- Wladimir von Pawlowski, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Carinthian Slovene descent, SS-Standartenführer and one-time Gauleiter of Carinthia
- Alexander Piorkowski, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent
- Paul Radomski, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent
- Lothar Rendulic (1887–1971), Austrian, Wehrmacht Generaloberst, Croatian ancestry[12]
- Alfred Rosenberg, Baltic German father and German and French mother, and he probably also had Estonian and Latvian ancestry[13]
- Jazep Sažyč, Belarusian
- Baldur von Schirach, Wendish nobility, American mother
- Hermann Senkowsky, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Carinthian Slovene descent
- Otto Skorzeny, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Polish descent
- Alfred Trzebinski, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent
- Erich Wasicky, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Carinthian Slovene descent
- Udo von Woyrsch, German Nazi, SS-Obergruppenführer, Bohemian noble descent[14]
- Felix Zymalkowski, German, Kriegsmarine Korvettenkapitän, Germanised Polish descent
- Werner Goldberg, German, foot soldier, half-Jewish
- Alexander Löhr, Generaloberst in the Luftwaffe, mother with Jewish-Ukrainian roots
- Horst Ademeit, German ace, Germanised Lithuanian descent.
- Helmuth Wilberg, German, Luftwaffe general, Jewish mother.
- Hermann Balck, German, General of the Armored Troops, son of William Balck, the son of a British father and Prussian mother
- József Grassy, Royal Hungarian Army officer and SS-Gruppenführer and commander of both the 25th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS "Hunyadi" and the 26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS
- Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, German Generaloberst, a Germanization of Jastrzembski, which means "falcon's nest" in Polish
- Wilhelm Canaris, admiral and head of the Abwehr and member of the German resistance to Nazism, Northern Italian descent, his family originally had the surname Canarisi
- Ferenc Szálasi, Leader of the collaborationist Arrow Cross Party, had German, Hungarian, Rusyn, Slovak and Armenian ancestry, his great-grandfather's surname was Salossian
- Ante Pavelic, head of the collaborationist Independent State of Croatia
- Sepp Janko, SS-Obersturmführer, and Volksgruppenführer of the Kulturbund (Yugoslavia), Danube Swabian
- Alexander Nikuradse, Georgian anti-communist, physicist, Nazi political scientist and Nazi collaborator
- Shalva Loladze, Georgian second lieutenant in the 882nd Georgian Infantry Battalion "Köngin Tamara", he was killed during a revolt
- Shalva Maglakelidze, field commander of the Georgische Legion, alongside collaborationist officers such as SS-Standartenführer Michel-Firdon Zulukidze and Oberst Solomon Nicholas Zaldastani
- Drastamat Kanayan, former Dashnaktsutyun member and leader of the Armenische Legion
- Knud Børge Martinsen, SS-Obersturmbannführer and leader of Free Corps Denmark
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References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Engel 2017, p. 187.
- ↑ "'Jewish' Senior Officers In Hitler's Army: Erhard Milch, Wilhelm Keitel, Walther von Brauchitsch, Erich Raeder, and Maximilian von Weichs. - Gawronski Rafzen's Blog". Gawronski Rafzen's Blog. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Tyson 2010, p. 204.
- ↑ Richard [Oscar] Darré, Meine Erziehung im Elternhause und durch das Leben, Wiesbaden, 1925
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Galland 1954, p. vii.
- ↑ Joseph Poprzeczny (19 February 2004). Odilo Globocnik, Hitler's Man in the East. McFarland. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-0-7864-8146-0. Search this book on
- ↑ Kempka, Erich (2010) [1951]. I was Hitler's Chauffeur. London: Frontline Books-Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. pp. 9–10. ISBN 978-1-84832-550-0. Search this book on
- ↑ Kosk, Henryk P (2001). Generalicja Polska: Popularny Słownik Biograficzny. T. 2, M – Ż, suplement (in Polish). Pruszków: Oficyna Wydawnicza Ajaks. ISBN 978-83-87103-81-1.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) Search this book on
- ↑ Hamilton 1984, p. 161.
- ↑ "The Curious Case of Martin James Monti".
- ↑ Pierre Joffroy (1 February 1972). A spy for God: the ordeal of Kurt Gerstein. Grosset & Dunlap. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-448-00002-2. Search this book on
- ↑ Barry M. Lituchy (6 July 2006). Jasenovac and the Holocaust in Yugoslavia: analyses and survivor testimonies. Jasenovac Research Institute. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-9753432-0-3. Search this book on
- ↑ Werner Maser (1979). Nuremberg: a nation on trial. Allen Lane. p. 368. ISBN 9780713910889. Search this book on
- ↑ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der adeligen Häuser: Deutscher Uradel. Justus Perthes. 1942. p. 620. Search this book on
Sources[edit]
- Engel, Gerhard (2017). At the Heart of the Reich: The Secret Diary of Hitler's Army Adjutant. Frontline Books. pp. 15, 48, 187. ISBN 978-1-4738-8572-1. Search this book on
- Galland, Adolf (1954). The First and The Last: The Rise and Fall of the German Fighter Forces, 1938–1945. New York: Henry Holt & Co. Search this book on
- Hamilton, Charles (1984). Leaders & Personalities of the Third Reich, Vol. 1. R. James Bender Publishing. ISBN 0-912138-27-0. Search this book on
- Diemut Majer (2003). "Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich: The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany and Occupied Eastern Europe with Special Regard to Occupied Poland, 1939-1945. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-6493-3. Search this book on
- Rigg, Bryan Mark (2002). Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1178-2. Search this book on
- Rigg, Bryan Mark (2009). Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: Untold Tales of Men of Jewish Descent who Fought for the Third Reich. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1638-1. Search this book on
- Tyson, Joseph Howard (2010). The Surreal Reich. iUniverse. pp. 204–. ISBN 978-1-4502-4019-2. Search this book on
Further reading[edit]
- Montalbano, William (24 December 1996). "The Jews in Hitler's Military". LA Times.
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