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Adolf Galland
German World War II flying ace
Albrecht von Roon
Prussian general (1803–1879)
Alfred Jodl
Nazi German Wehrmacht Army General and War Criminal (1890–1946)
Alfred von Tirpitz
German Grand Admiral and Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Officer
Carl von Clausewitz
Prussian general and military theorist (1780–1831)
Dietrich von Choltitz
German general
Erich Hartmann
German World War II flying ace
Erich Ludendorff
German Army officer
Erich Raeder
German naval officer and head of the Kriegsmarine during WWII
Erich von Manstein
Field Marshal of Nazi Germany
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Austrian SS and chief of the Reich Main Security Office
Ernst Udet
Luftwaffe general
Erwin Rommel
German field marshal of World War II
Fedor von Bock
German Army field marshal (1880–1945)
Felix Steiner
Waffen-SS commander (1896–1966)
Hans von Seeckt
German general (1866-1936)
Heinz Guderian
German general (1888–1954)
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
19th century German Field Marshal
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger
Chief of the German General Staff (1848–1916)
Hermann Göring
German Nazi war criminal, politician and military leader
Karl Dönitz
Commander of the German submarine Forces during World War II; last President of Nazi Germany (1891-1980)
Kurt Student
German Luftwaffe general
Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal
German general
Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière
German World War I U-boat commander (1866-1941)
Lothar von Trotha
German general (1848-1920)
Ludwig Beck
Chief of Staff of the German Army between 1935 and 1938
Manfred von Richthofen
German WWI flying ace AKA "Red Baron"
Michael Wittmann
German tank commander
Otto Carius
German tank commander
Otto Skorzeny
Austrian Waffen-SS officer (1908–1975)
Paul von Hindenburg
German military leader and statesman (1847–1934)
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
German army officer
Robert Ritter von Greim
German field marshal (1892–1945)
Sepp Dietrich
German Nazi politician and SS commander
Theodor von Hippel
German army and intelligence officer
Walter Model
German military officer during World War II
Walter von Reichenau
German field marshal (1884–1942)
Werner Mölders
German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1913-1941)
Wilhelm Keitel
German field marshal and war criminal (1882–1946)
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
Nazi field marshal