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Leaders of the Nazi Party and Nazi affiliated organizations

This is a list of Nazi Party (NSDAP) leaders and officials. It is not meant to be an all inclusive list.

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• Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski – An SS-Obergruppenführerund General der Polizei, he was the commander of the "Bandenkampfverbände" SS units responsible for the mass murder of 35,000 civilians in Riga and more than 200,000 in Belarus and eastern Poland.
• Herbert Backe – State Secretary (1933–1944) in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture and later Reich Minister (1944–1945), he was also an SS-Obergruppenführer. An architect of the infamous Hunger Plan.
• Richard Baer – Commander of the Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to February 1945.
• Alfred Baeumler – Philosopher who interpreted the works of Friedrich Nietzsche in order to legitimize Nazism.
• Klaus Barbie – An SS-Hauptsturmführer, he was head of the Gestapo in Lyon. Nicknamed "the Butcher of Lyon" for his use of torture on prisoners.
• Josef Berchtold – Very early Party member
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  Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD) & (DRB) Uniforms:

  RAD Oberfeldmeister 261/2 Wurttemberg:

  Following Hitler’s election as Chancellor in 1933, he soon appointed Konstantin Hierl as Secretary of State for the Labor Service, the control of which at this time were transferred from the states to the central government. There was considerable confusion in regard to the name of the labor service at this time, it was sometimes referred to as the FAD, sometimes as the Nationalsozialistischer. In Juni 1935 the formation of the Reichsarbeitsdeinst-RAD replaced all other remaining labor organizations men aged between 18 and 25 had to serve six months before their military service. During the war period, compulsory service also included young women and the RAD developed to an auxiliary formation that provided support for the Wehrmacht. The RAD was divided into two major sections, the Reichsarbeitsdienst Männer (RAD/M) for men and the voluntary, from 1939 compulsory, Reichsarbeitsdienst der weiblichen Jugend (RAD/wJ) for women.

  AD Hauptvormann 301/1 Bayern-Hochland:

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  The German Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labor Service)

  The German Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD), or German Reich Labor Service, was formed in July of 1934 as the official state and party labor service. The RAD was not unique though, as various labor organizations had existed in Germany for many years prior to 1934. During the later 1920’s – a time of great economic hardship in Germany – many political, church, and civic groups organized independent work camps to help provide some form of employment for the many ex-servicemen and the huge numbers of unemployed workers. The work camps were used to supply labor for various civic and agricultural construction duties throughout Germany, and to generally help relieve the strain of high unemployment. Even the fledgling NSDAP formed a number of these sorts of camps.

  On June 5th, 1931 – two years before the NSDAP came to power – German Chancellor Brüning gave the authorization to create a national work service called the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst, or FAD- the Voluntary Labor Service. Konstantin Hierl was appoi