KEY PEOPLE

• Adolf Hitler


  Leader of NSDAP (1921-45), Chancellor of Germany 1933-45, President of Germany 1934-45
• Bruning


  Chancellor of Weimar Germany 1929-32
• Ebert


  President of Germany 1919 - 25
• Ernst Rohm


  Twice was the leader of SA, was murdered on Night of Long Knives
• Goebbels


  Head of propoganda of Nazi Party 1929, Minister of Propoganda and Popular Enlightenment 1933-45
• Goring


  Had a variety of posts, including Minister of Prussia in 1923 which gave him 2/3rds control of Germany, seems to have had a role in the Reichstag Fire
• Himmler


  Leader of the SS 1929-1945, appointed head of all police agencies in Germany 1936
• Hindenburg


  President of Weimar Germany 1925-1934
• Jesse Owens


  Black American athlete who won 4 gold medals and broke 11 Olympic records at the 1936 games
• Kapp


  Tried to seize power in 1920
• Kurt von Schleicher


  Chancellor Weimar Germany 1932-1933
• Ley


  Leader of the German Labour Front (DAF) 1933-1945
• Ludendorff


  WW1 General and hero who supported Hitler in the Munich Putsch
• Muller


  Chancellor of Weimar Germany 1920 and 1928-1930
• Niemoller


  Protestant minister who opposed the Nazis and was sent to a concentration camp
• Rosa Luxemburg


  Led the Spartacist uprising in 1919 along with Karl Liebknecht
• Scheidemann


  Chancellor of Germany 1919
• Stresemann


  Foreign secretary Weimar Germany 1923-1927
• van der Lubbe


  Dutch communist allegedly responsible for the Reichstag fire
• von Papen


  Chancellor of Weimar Germany 1932