Evening star., 1946-10-16
Sketches of Nozi Leaders
-AP Wirephoto

usually was present at Hitler's most
important conferences.
COL. GEN. ALFRED JODL, as
German chief of staff, signed the
document surrendering the German
forces in the west to the Allies at
the schoolhouse near Rheims May
| 7, 1945. During the war he drew
many Of Germany's war plans.
Jodl had an important influence
in Hitler's inner circle. He was an
artillery expert in World War I. He
was made a major general in 1881
when he was 80. He was promoted
to colonel general in 1914, and in
January. 1945, succeeded Gen.
Heinz Guderian as chief of the joint
general staff. Jodl was wounded in
the 1914 bomb attempt on Hitlers
life. Jodl also was author of a 10
point program for the annihilation
of Britain and the United States.
JULIUS STREICHER was known
as Hitler's chief Jew batter" Be-
cause OF his fanatical anti-Semitism,
Hitler chose him to lead crusades
against the Jews in Germany and
the various satellite countries
Streicher said Jews were "a mixture
of Nordics, Mongols and Negroes,
carrying in their souls the bad quail
ties of all three races"
Back in 1924, when Hitler was still
an obscure figure, Streicher turned
over to the future Fuehrer the small
anti-Semitic party which he had
founded, and Hitler used its doc
trines to advantage in his rise to
power. Streicher served in World
War I. In 1910, when he was a
power in the Reich, he disappeared
mysteriously from the German po-
litical stage. The word was that he
had been tried before the supreme
party court for real estate opera
tons" He was captured by Ameri-
can troops May %, 1915, on a Ba-
varian farm, where he was posing
as painter.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, chief of the
Nazi security police, was an obscure
figure when he succeeded Reinhard
Heydrich, 1.-The hangman," as dep
uty protector of Bohemia Moravia
in 1943. Kaltenbrunner was made
deputy chief of the Gestapo and
head of the special security division.
A correspondent once described this
Nazi as "a gigantic Prussian officer
in the ominous black uniform of
the Elite Guards"
Kaltenbrunner was born in Aus
tria. He received q Phi. D. from the
University of Prague. practiced law
and became a judge at Salzburg.
During the war he visited many
concentration camps, and, according
to testimony at the Nuremberg
trials, he and Himmler agreed to
the gas chamber method of whole
sale executions
WILHELM FRICK was minister
Of the interior in the Hitler cab
met. He was an early Hitlerite and,
while the Weimar republic still gov
erned Germany, he organized the
police of Thuringia as an armed
force for the Nazi Party.
As Hitler's minister, Prick organ
lied drives against Social Democrats,
Communists, Monarchists and Jews.
1t was he who first urged large
"Nordic" families, saying, "a big
hereditarily healthy family will
finally decide the life of the German
people in the heart of Europe"
When Heinrich Himmler became in
terror minister in 1943, Frick was
made protector of Bohemia and
Moravia.
Hans Frank, as governor general
of Poland during the German oc-
cupation, was held responsible for
the slaughter and ghastly mistreat-
ment of hundreds of thousands. Be-
fore that, he had been Reichstag
president and commissioner Of JUS
tice.
In the years following World War
1, he was Reichstag deputy, little
known outside his district. BY 1888,
Hitler mad made Frank Bavarian
minister of justice. The Nazis re-