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* ''[[The Great Dictator|Adolf Hitler]]'': Der Führer. [[Adolf Hitler|Has his own page.]]
* ''[[The Brute|Ernst]] [[Hard Gay|Röhm]]'': Leader of the SA (Sturmabteilung), known as the Brownshirts and a key assistant in Hitler's takeover. He was big and [[Fat Bastard|fat]], a tough ex-military man who [[Depraved Homosexual|liked young boys]]. To remove a potential rival (or because he was plotting against him, as has been claimed), Hitler personally arrested him and had him executed in the Night of the Long Knives, along with much of the SA leadership.
* ''[[Fat Bastard|Hermann]] [[Upper Class Twit|Göring]]'' (usually rendered "Goering" in English): The Reich Marshal, second-in-command to Hitler, and a former [[World War
** During his youth, Göring's mother said that he would "grow up to be a great man or a great criminal".
** Göring's half-brother Albert (who was also likely half-Jewish) [[Cain and Abel|opposed Nazi ideals and was in the German Resistance]]. He was also the [[wikipedia:Albert Goring|very definition]] of [[Crazy Awesome]] for the ways he helped Jews and dissidents, banking on his family connections. Goering was furious over it, but protected him nonetheless.
** Göring claimed just before the war that the Ruhr Metropolitan Area (Germany's industrial center) would not be hit by a single bomb; if it did, he would change his name to Meier (saying you want "to be called Meier" is a German idiom to express that something is impossible) and also that he would eat his hat. After the United States entered the war, however, the Allies started attacking German cities with thousands of bombers that the ''Luftwaffe'' became increasingly unable to counter-attack. Göring made frequent tours of the devastated cities, where cynical civilians would call out "Hello, Mr. Meier! How's your hat?"
** Göring, being the head of the Luftwaffe that was the most visible manifestation of the Nazis to the British population due to the Blitz, was the major target of British propaganda and satire during the war. This concentrated mockery was so effective that Göring often remains thought of as a slapdash, incompetent [[Fat Bastard]] who couldn't tie his own shoelaces even today—it's often forgotten that prior to this propaganda offensive, he was widely feared as a dashing [[World War I|war hero]] and thought of as a strategic genius.
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** Of all the speeches he gave during his career, Goebbels' most famous one was the Sportpalast Speech. It was given on February 18, 1943, three weeks after the defeat in Stalingrad. This speech was the first acknowledgement by the Nazi leadership that Germany was facing serious problems on all fronts. Perhaps the most infamous bit about his speech was that the audience was carefully selected according to loyalty to Nazi ideology, giving it even greater impact.
* [[Evil Chancellor|Heinrich Himmler]]: Reichsführer of the SS and second-in-command to Hitler, he controlled the concentration camps, Gestapo, and the [[State Sec|SS (Schutzstaffel)]]. Hitler considered him his most loyal and competent henchman, and Himmler's decision to negotiate (unsuccessfully) with the Allies was one of the things that drove Hitler to consider suicide. One of the younger Nazis, he started out as a [[From Nobody to Nightmare|nerdy chicken breeder]] who carried the swastika flag during rallies. He has always been somewhat of a paradox for both historians and psychologists; despite damning millions to the gas chambers, and planning the further butchery and enslavement of tens if not hundreds of millions, Himmler hated the sight of blood - he repeatedly forced himself to watch recordings of the massacres he had ordered, and fainted in horror. However, despite this personal disgust for the realities of what he was ordering, he remained the key player of many of Nazi Germany's most evil crimes, in particular the Holocaust, painting the mass murders as "heroic" and "necessary" actions that would prove the heroism of the SS. Creepily enough, Himmler looked more like an amiable nerd than the head of the most terrifying armed forces in history. Captured in 1945, he killed himself before he could be questioned (an event witnessed firsthand by famed British cartoonist Carl Giles and Dutch comedian Rijk de Gooijer).
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