List of Nazis of non-Germanic descent

List of Nazis of non-Germanic descent SIGN IN TO EDIT List of Nazis of non-Germanic descent, including only notable people, such as Schutzstaffel members, who were of non-Germanic descent. Notably, there were several high-ranking Nazis of Jewish descent. There were also many of Slavic descent; the so-called Ruhrpolen settled in North Rhine-Westphalia in the 1870s. See Nuremberg Laws for further information on the status of non-Aryan people in Nazi Germany. Cambridge University researcher Bryan Rigg noted that there were two field marshals and fifteen generals (two full generals, eight lieutenant generals, five major generals) which were Jews or of Jewish descent.[1] The German army personnel office in January 1944 knew of 77 "high-ranking officers of mixed Jewish race or married to a Jew" serving in the Wehrmacht. All 77 had received a declaration from Hitler that they were "of German blood".[1] Miervaldis Adamsons, Latvian Gunter d'Alquen, German Nazi, French paternal descent Hermann Baranowski, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent Žanis Butkus, Latvian Karl Chmielewski, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent Jef François, Flemish Andrejs Freimanis, Latvian Roberts Gaigals, Latvian Rūdolfs Gaitars, Latvian Nikolajs Galdiņš, Latvian Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Slavic (Slovene and Czech) descent Eugen Hadamovsky, German Nazi, Germanised Slavic descent Bronislav Kaminski, Russian, Polish father and German mother Erich Kempka,[2] German Nazi, Ruhr Polish descent Karl Kloskowski, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent Horst Kopkow, German Nazi, East Prussian Berndt Lubich von Milovan, German Nazi, East Prussian Emil Maurice,[3] German Nazi, Jewish great-grandfather Erhard Milch, German Nazi, Jewish father (reclassified as Aryan by Adolf Hitler) Martin James Monti, Italian-American Joachim Mrugowsky, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent Kārlis Mūsiņš, Latvian Karl Nicolussi-Leck, Austrian Nazi, Tyrolian Franz Novak, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Carinthian Slovene descent Heinz Nowotnik, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent Alois Obschil, German Nazi, Germanised Czechoslovak Harry Paletta, German Nazi, West Prussian Wladimir von Pawlowski, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Carinthian Slovene descent Oskars Perro, Latvian Alexander Piorkowski, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent Harry Polewacz, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent Hermann Potschka, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Moravian descent Felix Przedwojewski, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent Paul Otto Radomski, German Nazi, Germanised Slavic descent Pio Filippani Ronconi, Italian Fritz Scherwitz, German Nazi, Jewish Hermann Senkowsky, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Carinthian Slovene descent Otto Skorzeny, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Polish descent Lothar Swierzinski, German Nazi, Ruhr Polish descent Lauri Törni, Finnish Alfred Trzebinski, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent Erich Wasicky, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Carinthian Slovene descent Emil Wawrzinek, German Nazi, Silesian dbo:abstract 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 or , while quarter-Jews remained in the Wehrmacht and were eligible for promotion. Employment or promotion of quarter-Jews required Hitler's approval. 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. 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). Hitler personally issued German Blood papers to mischlings (mixed Jewish) for their continuing service. * Johannes Blaskowitz, German general, Germanized-Slovenian descent * Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Prussian, SS-Obergruppenführer, Polish-Kashubian nobility * Leonardo Conti, Swiss, Reichsgesundheitsführer, Italian father and German mother * Bernhard Rogge, admiral, Jewish ancestry * Richard Walther Darré, German Nazi, SS-Obergruppenführer, Huguenot father * Hans Eppinger, Austrian, SS doctor, half-Jewish * Adolf Galland, German, Luftwaffe general, Huguenot ancestry * Wilhelm-Ferdinand Galland, German, Luftwaffe ace, Huguenot ancestry * 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 * 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 * Halim Malkoč (1917–1947), Bosnian volunteer, SS-Obersturmführer, Bosnian Muslim * Erich von Manstein (1887–1973), German, Wehrmacht Generalfeldmarschall, paternal Prussian Kashubian * Hans-Joachim Marseille, German, Luftwaffe ace, paternal Huguenot descent * Victor Matthys, Belgian Rexist * Emil Maurice, 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 * Joachim Mrugowsky, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent * 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, SS-Standartenführer and one-time Gauleiter of Carinthia * Alexander Piorkowski, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent * Paul Radomski, German Nazi, Germanised Polish descent * Lothar Rendulic (1887–1971), Austrian, Wehrmacht Generaloberst, Croatian ancestry * Alfred Rosenberg, Baltic German father and German and French mother, and he probably also had Estonian and Latvian ancestry * Jazep Sažyč, Belarusian * Baldur von Schirach, Wendish nobility, American mother * Hermann Senkowsky, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Carinthian Slovene descent * Otto Skorzeny, Austrian Nazi, Germanised Polish descent * 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 * Felix Zymalkowski, German, Kriegsmarine Korvettenkapitän, Germanised Polish descent * Werner Goldberg, German, foot soldier, half-Jewish * Alexander Löhr, Generaloberst in the Luftwaffe, mother with Jewish-Ukrainian roots * Horst Ademeit, German ace, Germanised Lithuanian descent. * Helmuth Wilberg, German, Luftwaffe general, Jewish mother. * Hermann Balck, German, General of the Armored Troops, son of William Balck, the son of a British father and Prussian mother * József Grassy, Royal Hungarian Army officer and SS-Gruppenführer and commander of both the and the * Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, German Generaloberst, a Germanization of Jastrzembski, which means "falcon's nest" in Polish * Wilhelm Canaris, admiral and head of the Abwehr and member of the German resistance to Nazism, Northern Italian descent, his family originally had the surname Canarisi * Ferenc Szálasi, Leader of the collaborationist Arrow Cross Party, had German, Hungarian, Rusyn, Slovak and Armenian ancestry, his great-grandfather's surname was Salossian * Ante Pavelic, head of the collaborationist Independent State of Croatia * Sepp Janko, SS-Obersturmführer, and Volksgruppenführer of the Kulturbund (Yugoslavia), Danube Swabian * Alexander Nikuradse, Georgian anti-communist, physicist, Nazi political scientist and Nazi collaborator * Shalva Loladze, Georgian second lieutenant in the 882nd Georgian Infantry Battalion "Köngin Tamara", he was killed during a revolt * Shalva Maglakelidze, field commander of the Georgische Legion, alongside collaborationist officers such as and Oberst Solomon Nicholas Zaldastani * Drastamat Kanayan, former Dashnaktsutyun member and leader of the Armenische Legion * Knud Børge Martinsen, SS-Obersturmbannführer and leader of Free Corps Denmar