Chief of Operations for the German High Command

IQ: 127

Jodl was hanged in Nuremberg
on Oct. 16, 1946. Critics have
called Jodl's death sentence harsh
in relation to the sentences received
by other German officers of similar rank.


Jodl gave orders for the German army's
campaign against Holland, Belgium, Norway
and Poland.
He also planned attacks against Greece
and Yugoslavia.
Jodl was quoted as saying, "Terror attacks
against English centers of population
...will paralyze the will of the people to resist."

Chief Nazi Philosopher and
Reichminister for the Eastern Occupied Territories

IQ: 127

Rosenberg was hanged on October 16, 1946.

Rosenberg's book promoting the Nazi philosophy
was called The Myth of the Twentieth Century.
He arranged the theft of fine art and furniture
from Jewish apartments in Paris.

Foreign Minister

IQ: 129

Rippentrop was hanged on October 16, 1946.

In prison, Ribbentrop kept asking everyone from doctors
to cell guards to barbers for legal advice. Prison pyschiatrist
G. M. Gilbert saw Rippentrop as "a confused and demoralized
opportunist.". Ribbentrop's erratic behavior caused his lawyer
to complain, "This man is impossible to defend."

"We are only living shadows--the remains of a dead era--an
era that died with Hitler. Whether a few of us live another
10 or 20 years, it makes no difference." (3/27/46)

German admiral who would eventually command entire navy.
Chosen by Hitler to succeed him as fuhrer.

IQ: 138

Served 10-year-sentence. Died in 1981.

"Politicians brought the Nazis to power
and started the war. They are the ones
who brought about these disgusting
crimes, and now we have to sit there
in the dock with them and
share the blame!" (5/27/46)
Called by Hitler "the Rommel of the Seas"

Chief of RSHA (an organization which
includes offices of the Gestapo, the SD,
and the Criminal Police) and
Chief of Security Police

IQ: 113

Kaltenbrunner was hanged on Oct. 16, 1946 in Nuremberg.

Kaltenbrunner was described as
"a Nazi out of central casting:" six-foot-six,
a huge neck, cruel mouth, and a scar across
his left cheek...
He was shunned by most of the other defendants...

Chief of Slave Labor Recruitment

IQ: 118

Sauckel was hanged on October 16, 1946.

Sauckel seemed confused during most of
the trial....Historian Joseph Persico described
Sauckel as "the least imposing figure among
the defendants, a little man with a shining
dome, sad brown eyes, and a silly mustache
patterned after the Fuhrer's."

Chief of Staff of the German High Command.

IQ: 129

Keitel was one of ten defendants hanged
in the Palace of Justice in the early
morning hours of October 16, 1946.

Keitel, on Hitler's orders, sent two generals
to Rommel (who had supported attempts
to assassinate Hitler) offering him the the
choice of a court-martial or suicide.

Prison pyschiatrist G. M. Gilbert said Keitel
"had no more backbone than a jellyfish."

Reichsmarschall and Luftwaffe (Air Force) Chief;
President of Reichstag;
Director of "Four Year Plan"

IQ: 138

Goering committed suicide on the day before
his scheduled hanging by taking a cyanide pill
that was smuggled into his cell.
Goering wrote in his suicide note,
"I would have no objection to getting shot,"
but he thought hanging was
inappropriate for a man of his position.

Goering surrendered to American officers.
The officers offered Goering drinks and sang
songs with him, but the next day were
reprimanded by an outraged Dwight Eisenhower...
Goering was the most popular prisoner with
the American guards because he seemed to
take an interest in their lives.
He seemed to wield a great deal of influence
with the other defendants, and prison
administrators sought to isolate him as much
as possible.
Goering said,
"We don't have much to say about our fate.
The forces of history and politics and
economics are just to big to steer." (3/9/46)

Anti-Semitic Editor of Der Sturmer

IQ: 106

Streicher was hanged on October 16, 1946.

Streicher, a vulgar man, was despised by
most of his fellow defendants.
Streicher collected pornography.
He said that he bought it from Jews
to show what filth they read.
"I am the only one in the world who clearly
saw the Jewish menace as an
historical problem." (11/14/45)

Deputy to the Fuhrer and Nazi Party Leader

IQ: 120


During his detention following his failed putsch,
Hitler dictated Mein Kampf to Hess...
Hess mysteriously flew to England in 1941 in an
attempt to end the war on his own terms. He stayed
there until the war ended.
Hess suffered from paranoid delusions, apathy,
amnesia, and was diagnosed as having
a "hysterical personality."

Hess was sentenced to life in prison.
He remained--lost in his own mental fog-- in
Spandau prison (for many years as its only
prisoner) until he committed suicide in 1987 at age 93.

Minister of Economics

IQ: 124

Funk was sentenced to life imprisonment by the IMT.
He was released in 1957 because of poor health.
He died in 1959.

Funk agreed with Himmler to receive gold from the SS (including
gold teeth and rings taken from those killed in
concentration camps) and deposit in the Reichsbank.

"The only accusation I can make to myself is...that I should
have resigned in 1938 when I saw how they robbed and
smashed Jewish property." (12/15/45)....


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Minister of the Interior

IQ: 124

Frick was hanged on Oct. 16, 1946.

Frick was one of eleven defendants sentenced
to death. He said, "Hanging--I didn't expect anything
different. Well, I hope they get it over with fast." (10/1/46)

Frick claimed not to be an anit-Semite. He said he
drafted the Nuremberg Laws for "scientific reasons";
to protect the purity of German blood.

Reichsbank President and Minister of Economics before the War

IQ: 143

Schacht was found not guilty by the IMT.
Schacht was later convicted by a German court
and sentenced to eight years.
He was freed in 1950.
He died in 1970 at age 93.

"I have full confidence in the judges, and
I am not afraid of the outcome.
A few of the defendants are not guilty;
most of them are sheer criminals."
(10/23/45)

Schacht had the highest IQ of any of the defendants.