TODOS los RANGOS del Ejército Nazi: La Jerarquía COMPLETA del Tercer Reich

All ranks of the Nazi army, the complete hierarchy of the Third Reich from Reichsmarschall to private, were present during World War II. Hitler created a special rank for Hermann Göring at the Kroll Opera House in Berlin, superior to the 12 field marshals promoted that same afternoon. The ivory, gold, and diamond baton had no equivalent in any army in the world. Göring committed suicide with cyanide at the Nuremberg Trials hours before his execution in 1946. Heinrich Himmler, under the title Reichsführer-SS, built a second army, the Waffen-SS, with 38 divisions and almost 900,000 men, also controlling the Gestapo and the concentration camp system where the Holocaust was carried out at Auschwitz and in Eastern Europe. The blood type tattoo under the left arm betrayed SS members years after the war. Joachim Peiper commanded the Kampfgruppe that executed American prisoners of war at Malmedy during the 1944 Ardennes Offensive. Erich Raeder and Karl Dönitz carried the baton of a Grossadmiral of the Kriegsmarine while seven out of ten German submarine crews did not return alive. Friedrich Paulus refused the promotion to Generalfeldmarschall that Hitler offered him in Stalingrad because no German field marshal had ever surrendered alive, and he surrendered anyway with 90,000 survivors. Erwin Rommel, Germany's youngest field marshal at age 50, was given a cyanide capsule in his own home after the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944. At the base of the pyramid, a young corporal named Adolf Hitler never rose above the rank of Gefreiter in World War I and ended up commanding the 26 field marshals who did.