List of victims of Nazism

The Holocaust
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This is a list of victims of Nazism who were noted for their achievements.

This list includes people from public life who, owing to their origins, their political or religious convictions, or their sexual orientation, lost their lives as a result of Nazism. This list includes those whose deaths were part of the Holocaust as well as individuals who died in other ways at the hands of the Nazis during World War II. People who died in concentration camps are listed alongside those who were murdered by the National Socialists or those who chose suicide for political motives or to avoid being murdered.

This list is sorted by occupation and by nationality.

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Theatre and film

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of Death
Hana Brady	1931–1944, aged 13, Auschwitz	Czech	girl portrayed in Hana's Suitcase: A True Story	gas chamber
René Blum	1878–1942, Auschwitz	French	founder of the Ballet de l'Opéra à Monte Carlo
Ernst Arndt	1861-1942/3, Treblinka	German	writer and poet
Maria Bard	1900–1944, Berlin	German	actress	suicide
Lisl Frank	1911–1944, Christianstadt	Czech	performer, dancer, cabaret singer	forced death march
Kurt Gerron	1897–1944, Auschwitz	German	performer, actor, film director	gas chamber
Dora Gerson	1899–1943, Auschwitz	German	actress, cabaret singer
Joachim Gottschalk	1904–1941, Berlin	German	actor	suicide
Leslie Howard (actor)	1893–1943	British	actor	airplane shot down by Luftwaffe
Bernard Natan	1886–1942	Franco-Romanian	film director, actor and former head of Pathé Film Studios
Joseph Schmidt	1904–1942, Gyrenbad	Ukrainian	singer, actor	heart attack
Miklós Vig	1898–1944, shot into Danube River, Budapest	Hungarian	singer, actor, comedian, theater secretary	gunshot wound
Karel Hašler	1879–1941, murdered in Mauthausen	Czech	songwriter, actor, lyricist, film and theatre director, composer, writer, dramatist, screenwriter and cabaretier	put into a cold shower until death

Literature and publishing

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of Death
Karel Destovnik Kajuh	1922–1944, killed in battle as resistance fighter	Slovenian	poet
Else Feldmann	1884–1942, Sobibór	Austrian	writer and journalist
Anne Frank	1929–1945,age 15 Bergen-Belsen	German/Netherlands/Dutch	diary keeper	typhus
Egon Friedell	1878–1938, suicide to avoid deportation	Austrian	writer and philosopher
Peter Hammerschlag	1902–1942, Auschwitz	Austrian	writer and graphic artist
Lidia Zamenhof	1904–1942, Treblinka	Polish	work for Esperanto movement, as well as translations of Bahá'í writings
Jura Soyfer	1912–1939, Buchenwald	Austrian	journalist, writer	typhus
Yitzhak Katzenelson	1886–1944, Auschwitz	Belarusian	teacher, writer
Petr Ginz	1928–1944, aged 16, Auschwitz	Czech	editor of Vedem	gas chamber
Julius Fučík	1903–1943, Plötzensee Prison	Czech	resistance leader
Milena Jesenská	1896–1944, Ravensbrück	Czech	journalist	kidney failure
Paul Kornfeld	1889–1942	Czech	writer
Karel Poláček	1892–1944, Auschwitz	Czech	writer	gas chamber
Vladislav Vančura	1891–1942, Prague	Czech	writer, doctor	execution
Etty Hillesum	1914–1943, Auschwitz	Dutch	writer, diary author
Helga Deen	1925–1943, Sobibór	Dutch	author of a published diary
Benjamin Fondane	1898–1944, Auschwitz	French	poet, literary critic	gas chamber
Walter Benjamin	1892–1940, suicide to avoid deportation	German	literary critic and philosopher
Felix Fechenbach	1894–1933, executed during the deportation to Dachau	German	journalist and activist
Walter Hasenclever	1890–1940, suicide to avoid deportation	German	expressionist writer
Jakob van Hoddis	1887–1942, Sobibór	German	writer
Jochen Klepper	1903–1942, suicide in Berlin	German	writer
Erich Knauf	1895–1944, in Brandenburg	German	journalist, poet
Adam Kuckhoff	1887–1943, in Berlin-Plötzensee	German	writer, dramatist, resistance fighter
Erich Mühsam	1878–1934, Oranienburg	German	writer, anarchist
Willi Münzenberg	1889–1940, suicide/murder in France	German	publisher, politician
Friedrich Münzer	1868–1942, Theresienstadt	German	philologist
Carl von Ossietzky	1889–1938, Berlin	German	journalist, Nobel Peace Prize winner
Erich Salomon	1886–1944, Auschwitz	German	photojournalist
Libertas Schulze-Boysen	1913–1942, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	film critic, resistance fighter
Miklós Radnóti	1909–1944, shot into a mass grave near the village of Abda in Northwestern Hungary	Hungarian	poet
Antal Szerb	1901–1945, in a concentration camp in Balf	Hungarian	writer, literary scholar
Mordechai Gebirtig	1877–1942, Krakau Ghetto	Polish	Yiddish poet, musician and composer
Bruno Schulz	1892–1942, Drohobycz Ghetto	Polish	writer
Wilhelm Eduard Schmid	d. 1934, accidental victim of the Night of the Long Knives in a case of mistaken identity	German	music critic
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger	1924–1942, aged 18, Mikhailovska labor camp in rural Ukraine	Romanian	writer	typhus
David Vogel	1891–1944, Auschwitz	Russian	Hebrew writer
Anton de Kom	1898–1945, Neuengamme	Surinamese	author, human rights activist
Irène Némirovsky	1903–1942, Auschwitz	Ukrainian	writer	gas chamber

Visual arts and design

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of Death
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis	1896–1944, Birkenau close to Auschwitz	Austrian	artist
Josef Čapek	1887–1945, Bergen-Belsen	Czech	painter, draughtsman, illustrator, writer
Samuel J. de Mesquita	1868–1944, Auschwitz	Dutch	painter and designer	gas chamber
Abraham Icek Tuschinski	1886–1942, Auschwitz	Dutch	designer of the Tuschinski Theater
Max Jacob	1876–1944, Drancy deportation camp	French	artist	pneumonia
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner	1880–1938, suicide, Davos	German	painter
Julius Klinger	1876–1942, deported, Minsk	Austrian	artist/designer
Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler	1899–1940, Aktion T4 victim, Pirna	German	painter
Felix Nussbaum	1859–1944, Auschwitz	Austrian	painter
Charlotte Salomon	1917–1943, Auschwitz	German	painter	gas chamber
Jan Rubczak	1884–1942, Auschwitz	Polish	painter, graphic artist
Nicolaus Rossini	1898-1943 Kraków-Płaszów	Polish	artist, wartime hero

Music

See also: List of composers influenced by the Holocaust

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of Death
Pavel Haas	1899–1944, Auschwitz	Czech	composer	gas chamber
Gideon Klein	1919–1945, Auschwitz	Czech	composer
Hans Krása	1899–1944, Auschwitz	Czech (Bohemian)	composer
Leon Jessel	1871–1942, Berlin	German	composer	torture by Gestapo
Erwin Schulhoff	1894–1942, Wülzburg concentration camp	Czech	composer, jazz pianist	tuberculosis
Viktor Ullmann	1898–1944, Auschwitz	Czech	composer, pianist	gas chamber
Karlrobert Kreiten	1916–1943, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	pianist
Alma Rosé	1906–1944, Auschwitz	Austrian	violinist, conductor
Józef Koffler	1896–1944, Krosno	Polish	composer, teacher, columnist
Leo Smit	1900–1943, Sobibór	Dutch	composer
Marcel Tyberg	1893–1944, Auschwitz	Austrian	composer, pianist, conductor
Gershon Sirota	1874–1943, Warsaw Ghetto	Polish	cantor, tenor

Humanities

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of Death
Mildred Harnack	1902–1943, Berlin-Plötzensee	American	literary historian, translator, resistance fighter
Elise Richter	1865–1943, Theresienstadt	Austrian	Romance philology professor
Simon Dubnow	1860–1941, at Riga ghetto during the Rumbula massacre	Belarusian	historian, writer, activist
Norbert Jokl	1877–1942, Rossau	Czech	albanologist
Marc Bloch	1886–1944 Saint-Didier-de-Formans	French	historian, resistance leader
Maurice Halbwachs	1877–1945, Buchenwald	French	philosopher
Georges Politzer	1902–1942, executed	French	philosopher
Avgust Pirjevec	1887–1944, Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp	Slovenian	literary historian
Walter Benjamin	1892–1940, suicide to avoid extradition, Portbou	German	philosopher
Friedrich Münzer	1868–1942, Theresienstadt	German	classical scholar

Mathematics

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements
Georg Alexander Pick	1859–1943, Theresienstadt	Austrian	Pick's theorem
Otto Blumenthal	1876–1944, Theresienstadt	German	Work in number theory, editor of Mathematische Annalen
Felix Hausdorff	1868–1942, suicide, Bonn	German	One of the founders of modern topology
Friedrich Hartogs	1874–1943, suicide, Großhesselohe	German	Foundational work in several complex variables
Robert Remak	1888–1942, Auschwitz	German	Work in group theory, number theory, mathematical economics
Adolf Lindenbaum	1904–1941, Ghetto Vilnius	Polish	Work in set theory
Antoni Łomnicki	1881–1941, Massacre of Lwów	Polish	Polish mathematician
Stanisław Ruziewicz	1889–1941, Massacre of Lwów	Polish	Ruziewicz problem
Stanisław Saks	1897–1942, murdered in prison by the Gestapo, Warsaw	Polish	Work in measure theory
Juliusz Schauder	1899–1943, executed by the Gestapo, Lviv	Polish	Schauder fixed point theorem, Schauder basis
Włodzimierz Stożek	1883–1941, Massacre of Lwów	Polish	Polish mathematician
Alfred Tauber	1866–1942, Theresienstadt	Slovak	Tauberian theorems

Natural sciences

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of Death
Ernst Cohen	1869–1944, Auschwitz	Dutch	chemist, work on the allotropy of metals	gas chamber
Walter Arndt	1891–1944, executed, Brandenburg	German	zoologist

Medicine, psychology, pedagogy

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of Death
Adolf Reichwein	1898–1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	doctor, educator, politician
Elisabeth von Thadden	1890–1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	educator
Karl Rosenmayer	d. 1942	German	physician, surgeon
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński	1874–1941, Massacre of Lwów	Polish	paediatrician, poet, translator
Antoni Cieszyński	1882–1941, Massacre of Lwów	Polish	physician, dentist, surgeon
Władysław Dobrzaniecki	1897–1941, Massacre of Lwów	Polish	physician, surgeon
Amy Yael Schiowitz	1921–1941, Massacre of Lwów	Polish	psychologist, psychiatry
Janusz Korczak	1878–1942, Treblinka	Polish	pediatrician, educator, child welfare

Law, business

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of Death
Maurice Halbwachs	1877–1945, Buchenwald	French	sociologist, economist, philosopher, developer of collective memory
Elisabeth de Rothschild	1902–1945, Ravensbrück	French	wife of Baron Philippe de Rothschild
Klaus Bonhoeffer	1901–1945, executed, Berlin	German	jurist, resistance fighter
Hans von Dohnanyi	1902–1945, executed, Sachsenhausen	German	jurist, resistance fighter
Reinhold Frank	1896–1945, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	lawyer, member of July 20 Plot
Martin Gauger	1905–1941, NS-Tötungsanstalt Sonnenstein	German	jurist, pacifist, member of the Kreisau Circle
Franz Kaufmann	1886–1944, Sachsenhausen	German	jurist
Helmuth James Graf von Moltke	1907–1945, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	jurist, founder of the Kreisau Circle
Karl Sack	1896–1945, executed, Flossenbürg	German	jurist, member of the July 20 plot
Rüdiger Schleicher	1895–1945, executed, Berlin	German	resistance fighter
Kazimierz Proszyński	1875–1945, Mauthausen	Polish	inventor
Betsie ten Boom	1885–1944	Dutch	book keeper	Pernicious anemia
Casper ten Boom	1859–1944	Dutch	watchmaker	tuberculosis, mistreatment

Theology, spirituality, religion

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of Death
Kai Munk	1898–1944, murdered by an SS-Sonderkommando, Hørbylunde/Denmark	Danish	theologian, playwright
Dietrich Bonhoeffer	1906–1945, Flossenbürg	German	Lutheran pastor, theologian,	Hanged with thin wire
Regina Jonas	1902–1944, Auschwitz	German	woman Rabbi
Jochen Klepper	1903–1942, suicide shortly before deportation, Berlin	German	theologian, journalist
Friedrich Lorenz	1897–1944, executed, Halle an der Saale	German	priest, member of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate	beheaded
Paul Schneider	1897–1939, Buchenwald	German	clergyman	lethal injection
Edith Stein	1891–1942, Auschwitz	German	nun, Catholic saint (born Jewish)	gas chamber
Sándor Büchler	1869–1944, Auschwitz	Hungarian	rabbi, historian
Avraham Yitzchak Bloch	1891–1941, murdered in a massacre of the male population of Telz	Lithuanian	Chief Rabbi, rosh yeshiva of the Telz Yeshiva
Elchonon Wasserman	1875–1941, Kovno	Lithuanian	rabbi, rosh yeshiva
Azriel Rabinowitz	1905–1941, murdered in a massacre of the male population of Telz	Lithuanian	rabbi, rosh yeshiva at the Telz Yeshiva
Shimon Shkop	1860–1940, Grodno	Lithuanian	rosh yeshiva, Talmudic scholar
Maximilian Kolbe	1894–1941, Auschwitz	Polish	friar, Catholic saint	lethal injection
Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski	1913–1945, Dachau	Polish	priest
Karl Ernst Krafft	1900–1945, during transport to Buchenwald	Swiss	astrologer, occultist
Kalonymus Kalman Shapira	1889–1943, Aktion Erntefest	Polish	Rabbi
Menachem Ziemba	1883–1943, The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	Polish	Rabbi
Maria Skobtsova	1891–1945, Ravensbrück concentration camp	Russian	Russian Orthodox nun, saint	gas chamber

Sport

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of Death
Estella Agsteribbe	1909–1943, Auschwitz	Dutch	gymnast (team); Olympic gold medalist
Alfred Flatow	1869–1942, Theresienstadt	German	gymnast; 3-time Olympic gold medalist & 1-time silver medalist
Gustav Flatow	1875–1945, Theresienstadt	German	gymnast; 2-time Olympic gold medalist
Bronisław Czech	1908–1944, Auschwitz	Polish	skier: Olympian
János Garay (fencer)	1889–1945, Mauthausen	Hungarian	fencer; Olympic gold, silver, and bronze medalist
Oszkár Gerde	1883–1944, Mauthausen	Hungarian	fencer; 2-time Olympic gold medalist
Eddy Hamel	1902–1943, Auschwitz	American	football player, AFC Ajax
Lilli Henoch	1899–1942, Riga Ghetto	German	4 world records (discus, shot put, and 4x100-m relay), 10 German national championships,
Otto Herschmann	1877–1942, Izbica concentration camp	Austrian	fencer & swimmer; 2-time Olympic silver medalist
Roman Kantor	1912–1943, Majdanek concentration camp	Polish	fencer; Olympian
Gerrit Kleerekoper	1897–1943, Sobibór	Dutch	coach Dutch gymnastics team 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games
Józef Klotz	1900–1941	Polish	Polish national soccer team
Janusz Kusociński	1907–1940, executed in Palmiry	Polish	athlete;1932 Los Angeles men's athletics gold medalist
Salo Landau	1903–1944, Gräditz concentration camp	Dutch	chess player
Vera Menchik	1906–1944, killed in a V-1 rocket bombing raid in South London	British-Czech	chess player; world champion
Helena Nordheim	1903–1943, Sobibór	Dutch	gymnast (team); Olympic gold medalist
Victor Perez	1911–1945, Auschwitz	Tunisian	boxer; world flyweight champion
Attila Petschauer	1904–1943, Davidovka concentration camp	Hungarian	fencer; 2-time Olympic gold medalist & 1-time silver medalist
Ans Polak	1906–1943, Sobibór	Dutch	gymnast (team); Olympic gold medalist
Dawid Przepiórka	1880–1940, executed, Warsaw	Polish	chess player; chess Olympian
Werner Seelenbinder	1904–1944, executed, Brandenburg an der Havel	German	wrestler; Olympian
Jud Simons	1904–1943, Sobibór	Dutch	gymnast (team); Olympic gold medalist
Leon Sperling	1900–1941, Lemberg Ghetto	Polish	left wing on national soccer team
András Székely	1909–1943,	Hungarian	swimmer, Olympic silver (200-m breaststroke) and bronze (4x200-m freestyle relay)
Lejzor Ilja Szrajbman	1907–1943, Majdanek concentration camp	Polish	swimmer, Olympic 4×200-m freestyle relay
Karel Treybal	1885–1941, executed, Prague	Czech	chess player; chess Olympian
Johann Trollmann	1907–1943, Neuengamme	German	boxer; German national champion
Heinrich Wolf	1875–1943, Vienna	Austrian	chess player

Politics, resistance

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of Death
Edgar André	1894–1936, executed, Hamburg	German	Communist
Friedrich Aue	1896–1944, executed, Brandenburg	German	Communist
Olga Benário Prestes	1908–1942, Ravensbrück	German-Brazilian	Communist
Judith Auer	1905–1944, executed, Berlin	German	resistance fighter
Bernhard Bästlein	1894–1944, executed, Brandenburg	German	Communist
Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff	d. 1945, murdered in custody, Berlin	German	diplomat
Cato Bontjes van Beek	1920–1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	resistance fighter
Rudolf Breitscheid	1874–1944, Buchenwald	German	Social democrat
Hans Coppi	1916–1942, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	resistance fighter
Hilde Coppi	1909–1943, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	resistance fighter
Tone Čufar	1905–1942, shot during an escape attempt	Slovenian	resistance fighter
Otto Eggerstedt	d. 1933, Esterwegen	German	Social democrat
Fritz Elsas	d. 1945, Sachsenhausen	German	politician
Georg Elser	1903–1945, executed, Dachau	German	manual labourer, Rotfront-Kämpfer
Yitzhak Gitterman	1889–1943, fighting in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	Polish	Politician, Director of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler	1884–1945, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	Mayor of Leipzig, Putschist
Herschel Grynszpan	1921–1943/1945, location and date of death not known, possibly Gestapo-Prison Berlin-Moabit	German	assassin
Max Habermann	d. 1944, prison in Gifhorn	German	trade unionist
Albrecht Haushofer	1903–1945, executed, Berlin-Moabit	German	diplomat, writer
Rudolf Henning	d. 1944, executed, Sachsenhausen	German
Rudolf Hilferding	1877–1941, in Gestapo custody, Paris	German	Social democrat
Otto Hirsch	d. 1941, Mauthausen concentration camp	German	Representation of German Jews
Camill Hoffmann	d. 1944, Auschwitz	German	diplomat, writer
Martin Hoop	1892–1933, Zwickau	German	Communist, District Leader KPD, Saxony
Franz Jacob	d. 1944, executed, Brandenburg	German	Communist
Walter Krämer	d. 1941, "shot while trying to escape", KZ Goslar	German	Communist
Marian Kudera	d. 1944, executed, Dachau	German	resistance fighter
Albert Kuntz	d. 1945, posterior to torture Nordhausen	German	Communist
Ludwig Landmann	1868-5 March 1945, starved to death in hiding place	German	DDP Politician, Mayor of Frankfurt am Main
Julius Leber	1891–1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	Socialist
Wilhelm Leuschner	1890–1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	Politician
Marinus van der Lubbe	1909–1934, Leipzig	Dutch	arsonist
August Lütgens	d. 1933, executed, Amtsgericht Altona	German	Communist
Rosa Manus	d. 1943, Ravensbrück	German	Women's rights advocate
Walter Möller	d. 1933, executed, Amtsgericht Altona	German	Communist
Ottilie Pohl	d. 1942, Theresienstadt	German	resistance fighter
Fritz Pröll	1915–1944, suicide due to threatened torture, Nordhausen	German	resistance fighter
Anton Saefkow	1903–1944, executed, Zuchthaus Brandenburg	German	Communist, resistance fighter
Ernst Schneller	d. 1944, executed, Sachsenhausen	German	KPD Politician
Werner Scholem	d. 1940, Buchenwald	German	Communist
Hans Scholl	1918–1943, executed, Munich–Stadelheim Prison	German	resistance fighter, medical student
Sophie Scholl	1921–1943, executed, Munich–Stadelheim Prison	German	resistance fighter, student
Slavko Šlander	1909–1941, executed	Slovenian	resistance fighter
Bruno Tesch	1913–1933, executed, Amtsgericht Altona	German	Communist
Ernst Thälmann	1886–1944, executed, Buchenwald	German	KPD Politician
Mathias Thesen	d. 1944, executed, Sachsenhausen	German
Adam von Trott zu Solz	d. 1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	diplomat
Karl Wolff	died 1933 executed, Amtsgericht Altona	German	Communist
Richard Schmitz	1885-1938 survived Dachau	Austrian	mayor of Vienna
Georges Mandel	1885–1944, murdered in the Forest of Fontainebleau	French	politician, resistance leader
Victor Basch	1877–1945, assassinated by the Vichy French Milice	French	esthetician, politician
Jenő Deutsch  (Eugen Deutsch)	1879–1944	Hungarian	social democratic politician [1]
Kazimierz Bartel	1882–1941, executed	Polish	Prime Minister of Poland 1926-1930
Stefan Rowecki	1895–1944, executed in Warsaw	Polish	general, journalist, leader of the Armia Krajowa
Stefan Starzyński	1893–1943, fate unknown, possibly died in Dachau	Polish	politician, economist, writer, statesman

Military

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of Death
Erich Fellgiebel	1886–1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	officer and resistance fighter in the Third Reich
Ludwig Beck	1880–1944, executed, Berlin	German	General, Putschist
Werner von Haeften	1908–1944, executed, Berlin	German	jurist, adjutant of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Erich Hoepner	1886–1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	demoted Colonel General, member of Military opposition about Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg
Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim	1905–1944, executed, Berlin	German	Colonel, Putschist
Friedrich Olbricht	1888–1944, executed, Berlin	German	General, Putschist
Hans Oster	1887–1945, executed, Flossenbürg	German	Chief of staff
Maurice Rose	1899–1945, killed after being taken POW	American	Commander US 3rd Armored Division
Harro Schulze-Boysen	1909–1942, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	officer, publicist
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg	1907–1944, executed, Berlin	German	Chief of staff of General Army Office, Putschist
Carl Heinrich von Stülpnagel	1886–1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	military commander in occupied France
Henning von Tresckow	1901–1944, suicide, near Ostrov, Russia	German	Major General, Putschist
Erwin von Witzleben	1881–1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	retired Field Marshal
Wilhelm Canaris	1887–1945, executed, Flossenbürg	German	military information service
Erwin Rommel	1891–1944, forced suicide	German	Army(Wehrmacht), Field Marshal
Dmitry Karbyshev	1880–1945, executed, Mauthausen	Russian	Army(RKKA), engineer commander
Dimitri Zouralis	d. 1941, executed	Greek	Army(Greek), Commander
Rudolf Viest	1890–1945, executed, Flossenbürg	Slovak	Division General, commander of the Slovak National Uprising
Ján Golian	1906–1945, executed, Flossenbürg	Slovak	Brigadier General, commander of the Slovak National Uprising

See also

• List of Holocaust survivors
• List of banned authors during the Third Reich
• List of inmates and victims of Auschwitz