Curated playlist
German Army personnel of World War I
- Max ErnstMax Ernst wrote that he died in 1914 and was resurrected in 1918. He meant his years as a soldier.
- Martin HeideggerPhilosopher Martin Heidegger joined the Nazi Party in May 1933. He did so while admired as a leading thinker of being.
- Heinrich HimmlerHeinrich Himmler died by biting a hidden cyanide pill during a British exam. He was dead within 15 minutes.
- Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler was rejected twice by Vienna's art academy. He later became dictator of Germany.
- Adolf HeusingerAdolf Heusinger stood beside Hitler when the 1944 bomb went off and later chaired NATO's Military Committee.
- Franz MarcPainter Franz Marc was on a list of artists to be pulled from combat when a shell killed him.
- Hermann GöringHermann Göring swallowed cyanide the night before his hanging in October 1946. He had asked for a firing squad.
- Joachim von RibbentropJoachim von Ribbentrop sold champagne before he became Nazi Germany's foreign minister.
- Erwin RommelErwin Rommel was forced to swallow cyanide in a German staff car a few miles from his own home.
- Rudolf HessRudolf Hess spent the last two decades of his life as the only prisoner in Spandau, a Berlin prison with 600 cells. The Allied powers kept the whole building in service for him alone, at an estimated cost of DM 800,000 a year. Hess had…
- Hermann HothHermann Hoth was sentenced to 15 years for war crimes but walked free on parole in 1954.
- Paul HindemithJoseph Goebbels publicly called composer Paul Hindemith an "atonal noisemaker" in December 1934.
- Hans SpeidelHans Speidel took the call ordering Paris destroyed and passed it on to no one. Hitler's order came on August 26, 1944.
- Richard SorgeRichard Sorge arrived in Japan as a Nazi journalist while spying for Moscow. German diplomats trusted him for years.