List of former Nazis influential after 1945
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List of famous well-known influential persons in East Germany (GDR), West Germany (FRG), Austria and in other states, until 1945 active Nazis were or leading positions in politics, culture, art, economics and society held (for example as members SS, SA, SD, Gestapo, armed forces, government, state, NSDAP, and so on) and despite "Entnazifizierung" again into influential positions into politics, economics and society came.
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in Austria:
- Kurt Waldheim SS, later Secretary General of the United Nations and President of Austria.
in West Germany (FRG):
- Karl Carstens later Christian Democrat and President of Germany
- Friedrich Flick industrial leader and billionaire
- Hans-Dietrich Genscher (born 1927) teenage member of NSDAP, later member of FDP (Liberals) and minister of foreign affairs
- Hans Globke drafted the German Rassegesetzgebung (Nuremberg Laws), later undersecretary of state of Konrad Adenauer
- Heinrich Harrer SS
- Walter Jens NSDAP, later a writer
- Kurt Georg Kiesinger later Christian Democrat and Chancellor of Germany
- Herbert von Karajan NSDAP, conductor
- Theodor Oberländer NSDAP, Gauleiter, late refugee Minister under Konrad Adenauer
- Franz Schönhuber SS, later chairman of the German right-wing party Die Republikaner
- Hanns-Martin Schleyer SS, later employer representative, kidnapped and murdered by Red Army Faction
- Fritz Thyssen NSDAP membership since 1931
- Hans Filbinger NSDAP judge, later Christian Democrat and Minister President of Baden-Württemberg
in East Germany (GDR):
- Heinrich Dathe zoologist, to 1945 director of zoo in Leipzig
in other states:
- Wernher von Braun - rocket engineer, since 1932 member of the NSDAP, since May 1940 member of the SS