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Rudolf Hermann Brandt was a German SS officer from 1933–45 and a civil servant. A lawyer by profession, Brandt was the Personal Administrative Officer to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and a defendant at the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg for his part in securing the 86 victims of the Jewish skeleton collection, an attempt to create an anthropological display of plaster body casts and skeletal remains of Jews. He was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and executed in 1948. Felix Kelsen, a finnish doctor who reportedly saved thousands of jews by influencing Himmler during the massage therapy he gave him throughout the war, tried to save Brandt from execution, as Brandt helped him by adding names on the lists intended to save camp prisonners.

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Karl Franz Gebhardt was a German medical doctor and a war criminal during World War II. He served as Medical Superintendent of the Hohenlychen Sanatorium, Consulting Surgeon of the Waffen-SS, Chief Surgeon in the Staff of the Reich Physician SS and Police, and personal physician to Heinrich Himmler.

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Werner Grothmann was a mid-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany and aide-de-camp to the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, from 1940 until Himmler's death in 1945.

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Maximilian Karl Otto von Herff was a German senior SS commander during the Nazi era. He served as head of the SS Personnel Main Office from 1942 to 1945.

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Eduard Alexander Felix Kersten was the personal physical therapist of Heinrich Himmler, who also became a confidante and adviser to the Reichsführer-SS. Kersten used his contacts with Himmler to help people persecuted by Nazi Germany.

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Heinz Macher was a mid-ranking Waffen-SS member and Nazi official during the Second World War. He served as the second personal assistant to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.

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Hedwig Potthast was the private secretary and mistress of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler with whom she had two children.

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Walter Friedrich Schellenberg was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He rose through the ranks of the SS, becoming one of the highest ranking men in the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and eventually assumed the position as head of foreign intelligence for Nazi Germany following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944.

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Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff was a German SS functionary and war criminal. He was Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS and an SS liaison to Adolf Hitler until his replacement in 1943. He ended World War II as the Supreme SS and Police Leader in occupied Italy. He escaped prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials, apparently as a result of his participation in Operation Sunrise. In 1962, Wolff was prosecuted in West Germany for the deportation of Italian Jews, and he was convicted to 15 years in prison for accessory to murder in 1964. He was released in 1971 due to his failing health.