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| 1 | Alexander, Harold [Edit] | Military | | 1891 | 1969 | | United Kingdom | Field Marshal. | Governer of Canada after the war. |
|  Responsible for the bombing of the convent at Monte Casino. After a repeated request of General Freyberg he ordered bombers to drop bombs on the convent, while no single shot was fired from this convent. |
| 2 | Bem, Esther [Edit] | Victim | | 1931 | | | Yugoslavia | | Survived the war in Italy |
| She fled with her parents to a little village in Italy where she found refuge with farmers. On the advice of the local priest she told the authoritues they were Italian and resisted the hours of questioning by the SS. The identity they told the SS was noted in the records and they became the Taminos family. |
| 3 | Arts, Suze (nl) [Edit] | Collaborator | | | | | Netherlands | waitress | Sentenced to 15 years imprisonment but released in 1953. |
|  Born in Tilburg (Netherlands) she is placed on a German boarding school were she falls in love with Franz Ettlinger, a HJ member. Back in the Netherlands she becomes a waitress. She meets Ettlinger on his assignment in Vught and enrolls in a course 'camp guard' and is sent to the womenscamp Ravenbrück. After she completes the course she is ent to Vught as a member of the staff. She is involved in the so called 'bunker tragedy'. |
| 4 | Kraemer, Fritz [Edit] | Military | | 1900 | 1959 | | Germany | general. | arrested and sentenced in Dachau for the Malmödy murders. |
|  Krämer and Deitz surrendered to the American troops. He was arrested and had to stand trail for war crimes. After his release he moved to Germany where he died in 1959 and was buried with full military honors. |
| 5 | Cohn, Paul [Edit] | Victim | | 1924 | | | Germany | Professor. | Paul became Astor Professor at University College London. |
|  Participant of the so called "Kindertransporte". Jewish children were transported from Germany to England in 1939. These transports were for children only, so the parents weren't allowed to join. Paul left Germany on May 21st, 1939 and went to a chickenfarm were he had to work. |
| 6 | Amery, Leopold [Edit] | Politician | | 22 Nov 1873 | 16 Sep 1955 | Gorakhpur | india | Secretary of State for India and Burma. | Lost the elections of '45 and thus lost his seat. |
|  A member of the Conservative Party, in 1911 Amery was elected to represent Sparkbrook, Birmingham, in the House of Commons. In the government headed by David Lloyd George, he served as under-secretary of state for the colonies (1919-21). This was followed by the post of First Lord of the Admiralty (1922-24) and then colonial secretary (1924-29). After Churchill became Prime Minister Amery was appointed Secretary of State for India and Burma. He set up a committee to advise Churchill on strategy's to fight the Japanese in India. |
| 7 | Braun, Eva (de) [Edit] | Collaborator | | 6 Feb 1912 | 30 Apr 1945 | Berlin | Germany | Secretary | Suicide with her lover, Adolf Hitler. |
|  Eva was Hitler's lover. Both of them committed suicide when the Russian Red Army was in the proces of liberating Berlin and where on their way to Berchtesgarten. Eva married Hitler just a few hours before she committed suicide. |
| 8 | Bos, Abraham van den (nl) [Edit] | Member of Resistance | | 19 Apr 1918 | 11 Aug 1944 | geboren: Rotterdam-Terbregge | Netherlands | school teacher | |
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| 9 | Aalderen, Herman Jan van (nl) [Edit] | Member of Resistance | | 4 Oct 1886 | 31 May 1945 | Zwolle | Netherlands | | Killed at may 31st. 1945 in Bergen Belsen |
| Decorated with the Resistance Cross 1940-1945 by Royal Decision no. 17, May 17th, 1946 because of courage, initiative and dedication in the battle against the Germans. |
| 10 | Bothe, Herta [Edit] | Collaborator | | 1921 | | Teterow Mecklenburg | Germany | Wardress | Sentenced to 10 years but released after 6 years |
|  At the young age of 21, Herta Bothe began her training as a concentration camp wardress in Sept. of 1942 at the Ravensbruck concentration camp, (a camp specifically designed for women), located in northern Germany. She would undergo 4 weeks of training for what was considered to be a simple job of overseeing prisoners of the Reich. After her training at Ravensbruck camp, she was then transferred to the Stutthof concentration camp which was located at the Poland / East Prussian border. She remained on duty at Stutthof until 1944, and then was briefly assigned to guard duty at a sub-camp of Stutthof, known as "Bromberg - Ost". Eventually the well seasoned female wardress would end up being transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, between Feb. 20-26 of 1945 to carry out her final duties just before the camps liberation on April 15th,1945. |
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