place_of_death ernst boepple
SS - Oberführer Ernst Boepple ( November 30 , 1887 , Betzingen -- December 15 , 1950 ) was a Nazi official , serving as deputy to Josef Bühler in occupied ___MASK56___ during World War II and the Holocaust . Adolf Hitler ( 20 April 1889  30 April 1945 ) was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party (" Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei "; NSDAP ), Chancellor of ___MASK40___ from 1933 to 1945 , and Führer (" Leader ") of ___MASK79___ from 1934 to 1945 . As dictator of the German Reich , he initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of ___MASK56___ in September 1939 and was central to the Holocaust . ___MASK79___ is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945 , when ___MASK40___ was governed by a dictatorship under the control of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ). Under Hitler ' s rule , ___MASK40___ was transformed into a fascist state in which the Nazi Party took totalitarian control over nearly all aspects of life . The official name of the state was " Deutsches Reich " from 1933 to 1943 and " Großdeutsches Reich " (" Greater German Reich ") from 1943 to 1945 . The period is also known under the names the Third Reich and the National Socialist Period ( abbreviated as " NS - Zeit "). The Nazi regime came to an end after the Allied Powers defeated ___MASK40___ in May 1945 , ending World War II in Europe . Josef Bühler ( also referred to as Joseph Buehler ) ( 16 February 1904  22 ___MASK23___ 1948 ) was a state secretary and deputy governor to the Nazi - controlled General Government in ___MASK49___ during World War II . The Sturmabteilung ( SA ), literally Storm Detachment , functioned as the original paramilitary ___MASK2___ of the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ). The General Government  sometimes also referred to as General Governorate (, ) was a German zone of occupation established by Adolf Hitler after the joint invasion of ___MASK56___ by Nazi Germany and the Soviet ___MASK74___ in 1939 at the onset of World War II . The newly occupied Second Polish Republic was split into three zones : the General Government in its centre , Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany in the west and Polish areas annexed by the Soviet ___MASK74___ in the east . The territory was expanded in 1941 to include the District of Galicia . ___MASK49___ , also Cracow or Krakow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland . Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region , the city dates back to the 7th century . ___MASK49___ has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic , cultural , and artistic life and is one of Poland ' s most important economic hubs . It was the capital of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1038 to 1569 ; the Polish  Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569 to 1795 ; the Free City of ___MASK49___ from 1815 to 1846 ; the Grand Duchy of Cracow from 1846 to 1918 ; and ___MASK49___ Voivodeship from the 14th century to 1998 . It has been the capital of Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999 . Oberführer was an early paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party dating back to 1921 . Translated as " senior leader ", an " Oberführer " was typically a Nazi Party member in charge of a group of paramilitary units in a particular geographical region . From 1921 to 1925 , the phrase " Oberführer " was used as a title in the " Sturmabteilung " ( SA ), but became an actual SA rank after 1926 . World War II ( often abbreviated to WWII or WW2 ), also known as the Second World War , was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 , although related conflicts began earlier . It involved the vast majority of the world ' s nations  including all of the great powers  eventually forming two opposing military alliances : the Allies and the Axis . It was the ___MASK38___ widespread war in history , and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries . In a state of " total war ", the major participants threw their entire economic , industrial , and scientific capabilities behind the war effort , erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources . Marked by mass deaths of civilians , including the Holocaust ( in which approximately 11 million people were killed ) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres ( in which approximately one million were killed , and which included the atomic bombings of ___MASK69___ and Nagasaki ), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities . These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history . The National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( abbreviated NSDAP ), commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party , was a political party in ___MASK40___ that was active between 1920 and 1945 and practised the ideology of Nazism . Its precursor , the German Workers ' Party (" Deutsche Arbeiterpartei "; DAP ), existed from 1919 to 1920 . The Holocaust ( from the Greek ': " hólos ", " whole " and " kaustós ", " burnt "), also referred to as the Shoah "' ( Hebrew : , " HaShoah ", " the catastrophe "), was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler ' s ___MASK79___ and its collaborators killed about six million Jews . The victims included 1 . 5 million children and represented about two - thirds of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe . Some definitions of the Holocaust include the additional five million non - Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders , bringing the total to about 11 million . Killings took place throughout ___MASK79___ , German - occupied territories , and territories held by allies of ___MASK79___ .