Alfred Graf von Waldersee (8 April 1832 – 5 March 1904) was a German Field Marshal who served as Chief of the Imperial German General Staff and Commander of the International Relief Force during the Boxer Rebellion.
Waldersee was and advisor to General Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin during the Franco-Prussian War. His tactical advice and analysis of the opponents capabilities and weaknesses served the Grand Duke well. He was assigned principal assistant to the General Staff in Berlin by Field-Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder.
Waldersee dreaded the prospect that the Crown Prince Frederich would ascend to the throne as Waldersee believed that with Frederich as Emperor, Germany would become a democracy, the Junkers and the rest of the nobility would lose their privileged position and the Army would lose its “state within the state” status by bringing the military under civilian control. To stop all this from happening, Waldersee plotted to have the military stage a coup d’état to depose Frederich in favor of his son Prince Wilhelm if he should ascend to the throne – Wikipedia
The uproar over his stance he blamed on the Jews of course.
All the Progressive people with their supporters, the entire Judenschaft and most foreign countries, that is to say, taken together are formidable foes…In view of the colossal influence which the Jews wiled by virtue of their wealth, through which they have secured the services of Christians in influential positions, even though they themselves are few in number, they are by far the most dangerous of our enemies. In a letter to Prince Wilhelm (the future Wilhelm II) in 1887 – Wikipedia
In 1900 at the onset of the Boxer Rebellion Waldersee was called from retirement and appointed by Wilhelm II (nominated by Russia and Japan) to lead the allied response. He became the first allied commander.
Much pomp and circumstance surrounded his departure from Germany. This became known as the “Waldersee Theatrics.” He arrived too late to take part in the rescue of European and Chinese Christians from the Boxers. He instead organized a punitive campaign to suppress the rebellion.
In his own words, Waldersee went to work with “feverish activity” by ordering 75 punitive expeditions in the countryside around Beijing, in which thousands of people— mostly women and children—were slain. – Wikipedia
Waldersee died in 1904
Otto Ohlendorf 4 February 1907 – 7 June 1951) was a German economist, lawyer, SS functionary and Holocaust perpetrator. He was head of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) Inland handling intelligence and security within Germany proper.
Ohlendorff joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in 1925. He was a student in university and earned two doctorates, one in law and one in economics. Ohlendorff molded Nazi economic policies.
In 1933 he obtained the position of a research directorship in the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Ohlendorf was active in the National Socialist Students’ League in both Kiel and Göttingen and taught at the Nazi Party’s school in Berlin. He participated in major debates between the SS, the German Labour Front, and the Quadrennial Organization on economic policy – Wikipedia
In 1941 Ohlendorf was appointed the commander of Einsatzgruppe D, which perpetrated mass murder in Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea and the North Caucasus. He was assigned to keep the operations as confidential as possible being one of the NSDAP leaders who was already familiar with them.
Ohlendorf’s Einsatzgruppe in particular was responsible for the 13 December 1941 massacre at Simferopol, where at least 14,300 people, mostly Jews, were killed. Over 90,000 murders throughout Ukraine and the Caucasus are attributed to Ohlendorf’s unit… One of Ohlendorf’s most trusted “proper” military-style murderers, Haupsturmführer Lothar Heimbach [de], once exclaimed, “A man is the lord over life and death when he gets an order to shoot three hundred children—and he kills at least one hundred fifty himself. – Wikipedia
Otto Ohlendorf was sentenced to death in April 1948 and spent three years in detention before being hanged at the Landsberg Prison in Bavaria on 7 June 1951.