Josef Bürckel
Videos
Joseph Bürckel was a German Nazi politician and a member of the German parliament. He was an early member of the Nazi Party and was influential in the rise of the National Socialist movement. He playe
Bürckel, c. 1938
Baldur von Schirach
Videos
Baldur Benedikt von Schirach was a German politician who was the leader of the Hitler Youth from 1931 to 1940. From 1940 to 1945, he was the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Vienna.
Josef Bürckel
…to the state. That earned him the displeasure of the Nazi hierarchy, and he was removed from his posts in Vienna in August 1940 and was succeeded by Baldur von Schirach. Upon his return to Gau Saarpfalz, Bürckel continued his previous lifestyle and spent large sums on purchasing artworks. After the fall of France, in…
Schirach as Reichsstatthalter, 1942
Schirach (far left) watches as Hitler greets his Chancellery chief Philipp Bouhler in Munich 1938.
Schirach (right) with Hitler, Bormann and Göring at the Obersalzberg
Schirach at the Nuremberg trials (in second row, second from right)