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Zinaida Portnova: Teenage Soviet Resistance Hero Against Nazi Occupation

Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim: Gay Survivor of Nazi Persecution and the Holocaust

Viktor Abakumov: Stalin’s Secret Police Chief Who Fell Victim to the Purges

Clara Petacci: Mussolini’s Companion Who Chose to Share His Final Fate

Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler: From Hitler’s Bodyguards to Waffen-SS War Criminals

Broniki Massacre 1941: The Killing of 153 German Prisoners of War

Karel Čurda: The Czech Traitor Who Betrayed Hundreds to the Gestapo

Franz Stangl: Nazi Commandant of Two Holocaust Death Camps Known as the “White Death”

Josef Bühler: Nazi Official Who Helped Implement the Holocaust in Poland

Soviet Invasion of Poland 1939: Stalin, Hitler, and the Partition of Poland

Fernand de Brinon: France's Leading Nazi Collaborator During World War II

Lidice Massacre: Nazi Reprisal After the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

Lepa Radić: Teenage Anti-Fascist Hero of Occupied Yugoslavia

Carl Gröpler: Germany's Executioner Who Beheaded the Vampire of Düsseldorf

Grigory Shtern: Soviet Commander Who Defeated Japan but Was Executed by Stalin

Elisabeth Willhaus: The Nazi Commandant's Wife Who Allegedly Shot Prisoners

The Rinnan Gang: Nazi Collaborators Who Infiltrated the Norwegian Resistance

Mauthausen Liberation: When Prisoners Took Revenge on Their Nazi Guards

Antonina Makarova: Soviet Nurse Turned Nazi Executioner

Martin Weiss: SS Commandant Who Ran Some of Nazi Germany's Deadliest Camps

Baldur von Schirach: Nazi Leader Who Indoctrinated Millions of German Children

Operation Unthinkable: Churchill's Secret Plan to Attack the Soviet Union

Louis Collard: Belgian Fascist Collaborator Behind the Courcelles Massacre

Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre: SS Division Das Reich Murdered 642 Civilians

Gerrit Kastein: Dutch Doctor Who Led Resistance Attacks on Nazi Collaborators

Vasily Blokhin: Stalin's Chief Executioner and the Butcher of Katyn

Lev Shvartzman: Stalin's Torturer During the Great Purge in the Soviet Union

Erna Petri: Wife of an SS Officer Who Executed Six Jewish Children

SS Division Prinz Eugen: Nazi Unit Responsible for Atrocities in the Balkans

Le Paradis Massacre: SS Murder of 97 Surrendered British Soldiers

Igo Sym: Polish Actor Turned Nazi Collaborator Executed by the Resistance

Hermann Pister: Nazi Buchenwald Commandant Behind Brutal Camp Terror

Wilhelm Frick: Nazi Interior Minister Who Created the Laws Behind the Holocaust

Operation Anthropoid: Assassination of Nazi Security Chief and “Butcher of Prague” Reinhard Heydrich

Hermannus Reydon: Dutch Nazi Propaganda Leader Assassinated by the Resistance

Lviv Pogroms 1941: Nazi Occupation and the Mass Murder of Jews in Ukraine

Tetyana Markus: Jewish Anti-Nazi Hero Who Assassinated German Officers in Kyiv

Johann Reichhart: Nazi Executioner Who Guillotined Thousands in the Third Reich

Yakov Dzhugashvili: Stalin’s Son Who Died in a Nazi Concentration Camp

Ilse Koch: The “Witch of Buchenwald” and Cruel Wife of a Nazi Camp Commandant

Arājs Kommando: Latvian Nazi Unit Behind Massacres During the Holocaust

Ebensee Liberation: The Camp Where Freed Prisoners Took Brutal Revenge on Nazi Guards

Ivan Marchenko: Former Soviet Soldier Turned Nazi Treblinka Gas Chamber Operator

Amon Göth: Nazi Camp Commandant Known as the Butcher of Kraków

Fritz Sauckel: High-Ranking Nazi Official Executed for Forced Slave Labor

Operation Barbarossa: 5 Myths About Hitler’s Invasion of the Soviet Union

Hermannus Reydon: Dutch Nazi Propaganda Leader Targeted by the Resistance

Hisao Tani: Japanese General Executed for the Nanjing Massacre

Yelena Mazanik: Anti-Nazi Hero Who Assassinated Nazi Governor of Occupied Belarus

John C. Woods: American Hangman Who Executed Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg

Nikolai Yezhov: Soviet Secret Police Chief Behind Stalin’s Great Purge Executed in 1940

Lída Baarová: Actress Whose Affair With Nazi Leader Joseph Goebbels Destroyed Her Life

Dirlewanger Brigade: Nazi Unit Behind the Wola Massacre and Eastern Front Atrocities

Stalingrad 1943: German 6th Army Encircled, Surrendered, and Destroyed

András Kun: Fascist Priest Who Led Jewish Massacres in Budapest

Christian Wirth: Nazi Death Camp Commandant Behind Operation Reinhard

Alfred Rosenberg: Top Nazi Ideologue Executed at the Nuremberg Trials

Peter Kürten: The Vampire of Düsseldorf Serial Killer Executed in 1931

Fritz Kuhn: The “American Führer” Who Tried to Bring Nazism to America

Moritake Tanabe: Japanese General Linked to Nanjing Massacre Executed After WW2

Jan Kubiš: Anti-Nazi Hero Who Helped Assassinate Senior Nazi Leader Reinhard Heydrich

Krasnodar Mass Public Execution: Nazi Collaborators Hanged in Soviet Russia in 1943

Boris Rodos: Soviet Secret Police Torturer Executed After Stalin’s Death

Henriette von Schirach: Nazi Elite Wife Who Lived on Looted Jewish Wealth

1st Mountain Division: Wehrmacht Unit Behind Massacres in Greece and the Balkans

Lippach Massacre: US Troops Executed Teenage Nazi Prisoners of War in 1945

Ans van Dijk: Dutch Nazi Collaborator Who Betrayed Even Her Own Family and Paid for It

Josef Kramer: Nazi Camp Commandant of Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz Executed After Trial

Julius Streicher: Nazi Propagandist at Nuremberg Executed for Inciting the Holocaust

Adolf Seefeldt: Germany’s “Uncle Tick-Tock” Serial Killer of Children

Yoshiko Kawashima: “Mata Hari of the Far East” Executed for Treason After WWII

Tomoyuki Yamashita: “Tiger of Malaya” Executed for WWII War Crimes in the Philippines

Nancy Wake: The “White Mouse” Who Fought the Nazis and Led the French Resistance

Kharkov Mass Public Execution in Ukraine: Nazi War Criminals Hanged in 1943

Stanisław Kosior: Top Soviet Official Behind Ukraine’s Man-Made Famine Executed in Stalin’s Purge

Geli Raubal: Hitler’s Niece Found Dead in Mysterious Munich Scandal

Fyodor Truhin: Soviet General Who Became Nazi Collaborator Executed for Treason

Chenogne Massacre: U.S. Troops Executed German POWs After Malmedy in WW2

Stanisław Trzeciak: Polish Priest and Nazi Collaborator Who Spread Antisemitic Propaganda

Franz Ziereis: Mauthausen Commandant Who Ran One of Nazi Germany’s Deadliest Camps

Joseph Goebbels: Nazi Propaganda Minister and Architect of Holocaust Hate

Paul Ogorzow: Serial Killer Who Terrorized Berlin Trains in Nazi Germany

Ferenc Szálasi: Hungarian Fascist Leader of Arrow Cross Executed for War Crimes

Prince Yasuhiko Asaka: Japanese Imperial Commander of Nanjing Massacre Who Escaped Justice

Witold Pilecki: Anti-Nazi Hero Who Volunteered for Auschwitz and Was Executed by Soviets

Majdanek Public Execution: Nazi Perpetrators Hanged at Concentration Camp in 1944

The Fate of Eight Soviet Generals: Stalin’s Great Purge of Tukhachevsky and Red Army Command

Emmy Göring: Nazi “First Lady” Who Lived on Looted Art and War Crimes

Bronislav Kaminski: Nazi Collaborator and Leader of Brutal Kaminski Brigade in WW2

Wereth 11 Massacre: Black U.S. Soldiers Captured and Killed by Nazis in WWII

Son Thang Massacre: U.S. Marines Executed Civilians in Vietnam War

Hans Loritz: Nazi Camp Commandant of Dachau and Sachsenhausen Who Escaped Justice

Roland Freisler: Nazi Judge Who Sent Thousands to Death in Hitler’s People’s Court

Marcel Petiot: French Serial Killer Who Murdered Jews Under Nazi Occupation

Vidkun Quisling: Norwegian Fascist Leader and Nazi Collaborator Executed for Treason

Akira Mutō: Japanese General Responsible for Nanjing Massacre Executed for War Crimes

Truus and Freddie Oversteegen: Teenage Dutch Girls Who Killed Nazis in WW2

Kyiv Public Execution: Nazis Responsible for the Babi Yar Massacre Hanged After WWII

Genrikh Yagoda: Soviet Secret Police Chief and Gulag Architect Executed in Stalin’s Purge

Magda Goebbels: Nazi “First Lady” Who Killed Her Children in Hitler’s Bunker

Sergei Bunyachenko: Soviet Colonel Turned Nazi Collaborator in WW2

Feodosia Massacre: Soviet Killing of Nazi German Prisoners in Crimea, 1942

Ngo Dinh Diem: The South Vietnamese Dictator Overthrown During the Vietnam War

Max Pauly: The Neuengamme Commandant Linked to the Murder of Children

Josias of Waldeck-Pyrmont: The SS Prince Behind the Crimes of Buchenwald

Gordon Cummins: The Blackout Ripper Who Terrorized Wartime London

Jozef Tiso: The Priest-President Who Led Slovakia as a Nazi Puppet State

Kenji Doihara: Japan’s “Narco-General” Behind the Invasion of Manchuria

Francisco Boix: The Mauthausen Prisoner Who Smuggled Photos of Nazi Crimes

Stutthof Executions: Public Hanging of Nazi Camp Guards in Postwar Poland

Lavrentiy Beria: Stalin’s Secret Police Chief and Architect of Soviet Terror

Eva Braun: Hitler’s Secret Companion Who Stayed Until the Fall of the Third Reich

Andrey Vlasov: The Soviet General Who Became a Nazi Collaborator

Dachau Liberation Reprisals: The Killing of SS Guards After the Camp’s Discovery

My Lai Massacre: The Vietnam War Atrocity That Shocked the World

Rudolf Höss: The Auschwitz Commandant Who Built the Nazi Killing Machine

Joachim von Ribbentrop: Hitler’s Foreign Minister and Architect of Nazi Diplomacy

Johann Eichhorn: The “Beast of Aubing” Serial Killer in Nazi Germany

Pierre Laval: The Vichy Prime Minister Who Collaborated with Nazi Germany

Masaharu Homma: The Japanese General Held Responsible for the Bataan Death March

Sophie Scholl: The White Rose Student Who Defied Hitler

Minsk War Crimes Trial: Public Executions of Nazi Perpetrators in 1946

Mikhail Tukhachevsky: Stalin’s Purged Marshal of the Soviet Union

Lina Heydrich: The Fanatical Nazi Widow of Reinhard Heydrich