List of nicknames and pseudonyms of Nazis explained

This is a list of nicknames and pseudonyms of Nazis. Common nicknames (as translated into English) include variations of "Beast", "Butcher" and "Angel of Death". Most high-ranking Nazis did not have a nickname. Most of the notable Nazis who did have nicknames were concentration camp personnel.

The common nickname of Sepp in German for Josef, for such Nazis as Josef Dietrich and Josef Oberhauser, is excluded from this list. The definite article "the" has been removed from the nicknames for the purposes of sorting properly.

Nicknames

Nickname (as translated in English)	Person
American^[1]
Angel of Death
Angel of Death
Angel of Death
Badmeister
Beast^[2]
Beast of Belsen
Beast of Belsen
Beast of Buchenwald^[3]
Beautiful Beast
Bitch of Buchenwald^[4]
Blonde Angel of Auschwitz
Blonde Beast
Bohemian corporal^[5]
Butcher of Lyon
Butcher of Prague
Butcher of Riga^[6]
Butcher of Warsaw^[7]
Butcher of Warsaw
Butcher Widow^[8]
Frankenstein^[9]
Desert Fox, The
Frankenstein
Gasmeister
Globus
Handsome Toni
Hangman^[10]
Himmler's Evil Genius
Hyena of Auschwitz
Queen of Buchenwald^[11] ^[12]
Red Witch of Buchenwald^[13] ^[14]
Uncle Mengele
Witch of Buchenwald
Wolf
Young Evil God of Death

Pseudonyms

Some Nazis also used pseudonyms, in most cases to evade notice and capture after the war.

Pseudonym	Person
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References

Sources

• News: Blumenthal . Ralph . Scientists Decide Brazil Skeleton Is Josef Mengele . New York Times . 22 July 1985 . 1 February 2014 .
• Book: Cesarani, David . David Cesarani . Eichmann: His Life and Crimes . Vintage . London . 2005 . 2004 . 978-0-09-944844-0 .
• Book: Lagnado . Lucette Matalon . Lucette Lagnado . Dekel . Sheila Cohn . Children of the Flames: Dr Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz . 1991 . William Morrow . New York . 0-688-09695-6 .
• Book: Levy, Alan . Alan Levy . Nazi Hunter: The Wiesenthal File . Revised 2002 . 2006 . 1993 . Constable & Robinson . London . 978-1-84119-607-7 .
• Book: Longerich, Peter. Peter Longerich. 2012. Heinrich Himmler: A Life. registration. Oxford University Press. Oxford; New York. 978-0-19-959232-6.
• Book: Ramen, Fred. 2001. Reinhard Heydrich: Hangman of the Third Reich. Rosen. New York. 978-0-8239-3379-2.
• Book: Snyder, Louis. Louis Leo Snyder. 1994. 1976. Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. Da Capo Press. 978-1-56924-917-8.
• Book: Zentner . Christian . Bedürftig . Friedemann . The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich . 1991 . Macmillan . New York . 0-02-897502-2 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Arad, Yitzhak . Yitzhak Arad . Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps . 1987 . Indiana University Press . Bloomington, Indianapolis . 0253213053 . Google Books preview.
2. [Ernst Klee|Klee, Ernst]
3. News: Dan . Alban . Books Bound in Human Skin; Lampshade Myth? . . 10 November 2005 . 22 September 2008.
4. Book: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. William L. Shirer. 1990. 885. 3rd. Simon & Schuster. New York.
5. Book: Margaritis, Peter . Countdown to D-Day: The German perspective . 2019 . Casemate . Oxford, UK & PA, USA . 978-1-61200-769-4 . xv .
6. Schneider, Gertrude, Exile and destruction : the fate of Austrian Jews, 1938–1945, Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1995, p. 78
7. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zlksAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CMsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5039%2C1111649 "Swiss Neutral Claims Nazis are Still on the Loose in Japan," Spartanburg Herald-Journal, 12 May 1946, p. A5.
8. News: Army seeks new charges against butcher widow . . 29 September 1948 . 3 . 16 December 2012.
9. http://www.wprost.pl/ar/105285/Seksualne-niewolnice-III-Rzeszy/?O=105285&pg=1 Seksualne niewolnice III Rzeszy, Wprost magazine, nr. 17, 2007. online version in Polish
10. Book: 1996. Tenth. Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Springfield, MA. 0-87779-709-9. 1416.
11. News: Cruel 'Queen of Buchenwald' given a permanent address . Boyle . Hal . . 14 August 1947 . 2 . 16 December 2012.
12. News: Buchenwald Queen must face German court on release . . 4 July 1949 . 15 . 16 December 2012.
13. News: Ilse Koch, Red Witch of Buchenwald, on Trial . . 28 November 1950 . 5 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121106210356/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/421613931.html?dids=421613931:421613931&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+28,+1950&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Ilse+Koch,+Red+Witch+of+Buchenwald,+on+Trial&pqatl=google . dead . 6 November 2012 . 16 December 2012.
14. News: Life sentence for 'Red Witch' of Buchenwald . . 15 January 1951 . 6 . 16 December 2012.
15. cited by: Manfred Seidenfuß: Geschichtsdidaktik(er) im Griff des Nationalsozialismus?, p. 161, footnote 2
16. News: Robert . Fisk . Robert Fisk . Butcher of Buchenwald in an Egyptian paradise . . 7 August 2010.
17. http://www.sobiborinterviews.nl/en/extermination-camp/biographies-of-ss-men Sobibor Interviews: Biographies of SS-men
18. [Oliver Rathkolb|Rathkolb, Oliver]