List of Nazis of non-Germanic descent

List of Nazis of non-Germanic descent, including notable people in Nazi German service, such as Schutzstaffel members, who had some non-German ancestry. Notably, there were several high-ranking Nazis of full and partial Jewish descent. There were also many of full or partial Slavic descent. See Nuremberg Laws for further information on the status of non-Aryan people in Nazi Germany.

OKW and OKH secret reports show that half-Jews could only serve in Ersatzreserve II or Landwehr II, while quarter-Jews remained in the Wehrmacht and were eligible for promotion.[1] Employment or promotion of quarter-Jews required Hitler's approval.[1] Cambridge University researcher Bryan Rigg noted that there were two field marshals and fifteen generals (two full generals, eight lieutenant generals, five major generals) who were Jews or of partial Jewish descent.[2] Rigg estimated that there were 150,000 men of some Jewish descent that served in the German armed forces during World War II. 1,671 have been identified (as of 2010).[3] Hitler personally issued German Blood papers to mischlings (mixed Jewish) for their continuing service.[3]

• Johannes Blaskowitz, German general, Germanized-Slovenian descent
• Walter Hollaender, colonel, Jewish[3]
• Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Prussian, SS-Obergruppenführer, Kashubian nobility
• Leonardo Conti, Swiss, Reichsgesundheitsführer, Italian father and German mother
• Roy Courlander, British, Unterscharführer, Latvian Jewish adoptive father
• Bernhard Rogge, admiral, Jewish ancestry[3]
• Richard Walther Darré, German Nazi, SS-Obergruppenführer, Huguenot father[4]
• Hans Eppinger, Austrian, SS doctor, half-Jewish[3]
• Adolf Galland, German, Luftwaffe general, Huguenot ancestry[5]
• Wilhelm-Ferdinand Galland, German, Luftwaffe ace, Huguenot ancestry[5]
• Hermann Baranowski, German Nazi, SS-Oberführer, Germanized Polish descent
• Gordon Gollob, Austrian, Luftwaffe, mixed ancestry
• Alfred Grislawski, German, Luftwaffe ace, Germanised Ruhr Polish
• Karl Chmielewski, German Nazi, Germanized-Polish descent
• Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Slovene descent[6]
• Eugen Hadamovsky, German Nazi, paternal Germanised Czech descent
• Bronislav Kaminski, Russian (of mixed Belarusian-Polish descent on father’s side, German on mother’s side)
• Erich Kempka, German Nazi, SS-Obersturmbannführer, Ruhr Polish descent[7]
• Halim Malkoč (1917–1947), Bosnian volunteer, SS-Obersturmführer, Bosnian Muslim
• Erich von Manstein (1887–1973), German, Wehrmacht Generalfeldmarschall, paternal Prussian Kashubian[8]
• Hans-Joachim Marseille, German, Luftwaffe ace, paternal Huguenot descent
• Victor Matthys, Belgian Rexist
• Emil Maurice,[9] German Nazi, Jewish great-grandfather
• Christian de la Mazière, French Nazi
• Erhard Milch, German, Wehrmacht Generalfeldmarschall, Jewish father (reclassified as Aryan by Adolf Hitler)
• Martin James Monti, American defector to the Nazis, SS-Untersturmführer, Swiss Italian father and German mother[10]
• Joachim Mrugowsky, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent[11]
• Karl Nicolussi-Leck, Austrian Nazi, Tyrolian
• Franz Novak, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Carinthian Slovene descent
• Walter Nowotny, Austrian, Luftwaffe ace, Germanised Czech descent
• Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, German, Wehrmacht Generalmajor, Germanised Polish descent
• Harry Paletta, German Nazi, West Prussian
• Helmuth von Pannwitz, Lusatian nobility
• Wladimir von Pawlowski, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Carinthian Slovene descent
• Alexander Piorkowski, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent
• Paul Radomski, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent
• Lothar Rendulic (1887–1971), Austrian, Wehrmacht Generaloberst, Croatian ancestry[12]
• Alfred Rosenberg, Baltic German father and German and French mother, and he probably also had Estonian and Latvian ancestry[13]
• Jazep Sažyč, Belarusian
• Baldur von Schirach, Wendish nobility
• Hermann Senkowsky, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Carinthian Slovene descent
• Otto Skorzeny, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Polish descent
• Alexander Stahlberg, colonel, Jewish[3]
• Alfred Trzebinski, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent
• Erich Wasicky, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Carinthian Slovene descent
• Udo von Woyrsch, German Nazi, SS-Obergruppenführer, Bohemian noble descent[14]
• Felix Zymalkowski, German, Kriegsmarine Korvettenkapitän, Germanised Polish descent
• Werner Goldberg, German, foot soldier, half-Jewish
• Hubert Jura, Polish, SD And Gestapo agent
• Alexander Löhr, Generaloberst in the Luftwaffe, mother with Jewish-Ukrainian roots
• Chiang Wei-kuo, Chinese Army general
• Horst Ademeit, German ace, Germanised Lithuanian descent.
• Egon Albrecht, Born in Brazil, but repatriated to Germany.

See also

• Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts
• Wehrmacht foreign volunteers and conscripts
• Category:Jewish collaborators with Nazi Germany

References

1. Engel 2017, p. 187.
2. "'Jewish' Senior Officers In Hitler's Army: Erhard Milch, Wilhelm Keitel, Walther von Brauchitsch, Erich Raeder, and Maximilian von Weichs. - Gawronski Rafzen's Blog". Gawronski Rafzen's Blog. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
3. Tyson 2010, p. 204.
4. Richard [Oscar] Darré, Meine Erziehung im Elternhause und durch das Leben, Wiesbaden, 1925
5. Galland 1954, p. vii.
6. Joseph Poprzeczny (19 February 2004). Odilo Globocnik, Hitler's Man in the East. McFarland. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-0-7864-8146-0.
7. Kempka, Erich (2010) [1951]. I was Hitler's Chauffeur. London: Frontline Books-Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. pp. 9–10. ISBN 978-1-84832-550-0.
8. Kosk, Henryk P (2001). Generalicja Polska: Popularny Słownik Biograficzny. T. 2, M – Ż, suplement (in Polish). Pruszków: Oficyna Wydawnicza Ajaks. ISBN 978-83-87103-81-1.
9. Hamilton 1984, p. 161.
10. "The Curious Case of Martin James Monti".
11. Pierre Joffroy (1 February 1972). A spy for God: the ordeal of Kurt Gerstein. Grosset & Dunlap. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-448-00002-2.
12. Barry M. Lituchy (6 July 2006). Jasenovac and the Holocaust in Yugoslavia: analyses and survivor testimonies. Jasenovac Research Institute. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-9753432-0-3.
13. Werner Maser (1979). Nuremberg: a nation on trial. Allen Lane. p. 368. ISBN 9780713910889.
14. Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der adeligen Häuser: Deutscher Uradel. Justus Perthes. 1942. p. 620.

Sources

• Engel, Gerhard (2017). At the Heart of the Reich: The Secret Diary of Hitler's Army Adjutant. Frontline Books. pp. 15, 48, 187. ISBN 978-1-4738-8572-1.
• Galland, Adolf (1954). The First and The Last: The Rise and Fall of the German Fighter Forces, 1938–1945. New York: Henry Holt & Co.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Hamilton, Charles (1984). Leaders & Personalities of the Third Reich, Vol. 1. R. James Bender Publishing. ISBN 0-912138-27-0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Diemut Majer (2003). "Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich: The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany and Occupied Eastern Europe with Special Regard to Occupied Poland, 1939-1945. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-6493-3.
• Rigg, Bryan Mark (2002). Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1178-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Rigg, Bryan Mark (2009). Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: Untold Tales of Men of Jewish Descent who Fought for the Third Reich. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1638-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Tyson, Joseph Howard (2010). The Surreal Reich. iUniverse. pp. 204–. ISBN 978-1-4502-4019-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Further reading

• Montalbano, William (24 December 1996). "The Jews in Hitler's Military". LA Times.