key people

• Ludwig Muller


  Leader of German Christians and Reich Bishop
• Martin Nielmoller


  Anti-nazi protestant pastor sent to Dachau
• Archbishop Galen


  Catholic archbishop imprisoned for 4 years
• Kaiser Wilhelm II


  Leader of Germany during WWI
• Bismarck


  (1815-1898) Prussian chancellor who engineered the unification of Germany under his rule.
• Ebert


  First president of the Weimar Republic
• Ludendorff


  German general
• Erzberger


  German representative who signed the Armistice
• Rathenau


  German foreign minister
• Stresemann


  German chancellor who abandoned passive resistance and introduced the Rentenmark
• David Lloyd George


  British Prime Minister
• George Clemenceau


  French prime minister
• Woodrow Wilson


  Prime minister of USA
• Wolfgang Kapp


  Leader of the Kapp Putsch
• Rosa Luxemburg


  Female leader of the Spartacists
• George Grosz


  leading artist of the new objectivity movement
• Walter Gropius


  German architect and founder of the Bauhaus movement
• Ernst Rohm


  Leader of the SA
• President Hindenburg


  president of Germany during the rise of Hitler. President from 1925-1934
• Von Papen


  German chancellor, helped Hitler come to power
• Von Schleicher


  Chancellor between December 1932 and January 1933
• Bruning


  Chancellor between 1930 and 1932
• Hermann Goering


  key minister
• Joseph Goebbels


  Minister of propaganda
• Rudolf Hess


  Deputy leader of the Nazi Party
• Marinus van der Lubbe


  Dutch Communist accused of Reichstag Fire
• Gregor Strasser


  early leader of nazi party
• Gustav von Kahr


  Bavarian Prime Minister
• Fritzlang


  Film director
• Marlene Dietrich


  German film star
• Heinrich Himmler


  Leader of the SS
• Hjalmar Schacht


  Nazi economic minister appointed by Hitler
• Reinhard Heydrich


  Deputy leader of the SS
• Anton Drexler


  original leader of the nazis
• Otto Dix


  new objectivity artist
• Karl Liebknecht


  male leader of the spartacists
• Klaus von Stauffenberg


  led the july bomb plot
• Turpitz


  made naval laws