Yes, like with all politics throughout History there were scandals in Nazi Germany surrounding Politicians and Military Commanders. Some of the scandals were heavily covered up by the party apparatus, while others were blown out of proportion to vilify and degrade the person in question. There were many scandals, including cheating, drugs etc… The highest ranking Nazi that had a problem getting caught up in scandals was Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels.

Joseph Goebbels, as Reich Minister of Propaganda basically rain the Nazi’s film industry, and with that, had access and control over the careers of many talented and attractive actresses. He had a supposedly loving and loyal Aryan wife back home, named Magda Goebbels, but like many men in power (and in general) Goebbels could not resist the temptation of cheating on his wife. He cheated on his wife with his Austrian-Czech actress Mistress Lída Baarová. Within the Nazi inner circles Goebbels’ was a known philanderer and had a penchant for some of his leading actresses. However, he tried covering up his extra marital affairs. This particular affair caught Adolf Hitler’s attention. Hitler basically forbade Goebbels from having an affair with a “Czech Actress”, because it went against the Nazi racial and marital morals. Goebbels of course continued his affair, but by late 1938 the Berlin Police, and then Gestapo got involved and basically told Goebbels and Barrová to cease and desist seeing eachother. She fled back to her native Prague. The Gestapo kept close tabs of her in Prague, but eventually she left for Italy in 1942, where she continued performing – but still under close watch.

Another possible mistress of Goebbels’ was Olga Chekhova (born Olga Knipper) who was a Russian-German actress. The irony behind this is that Olga Chekhova married a Russian Jewish actor named Mikhail Checkhov, but their marriage only lasted a few years – but she still kept his last name. There is only scant evidence to support this claim. However, it was known that Olga Chekhova did sleep with various high ranking Nazi officials. There is a picture of her sitting next to Adolf Hitler, and many conspiracy theorists believe that she was a possible mistress of Hitler’s. However, this particular theory was undoubtedly started by the Soviets, away to both shame Hitler, and as a way to extort her to spy on the Nazis. Again, there is scant evidence to support the last bit about her spying for the Soviet NKVD, but it is possible. A well regarded Historian, Roger Moorhouse briefly wrote about it in his book “Killing Hitler” (and I am a fan of his writings, and have used him as sources in other posts I’ve made on this sub forum). Regardless, Goebbels certainly had many extramarital affairs and kept longstanding mistresses – to the chagrin of the Nazi hierarchy and of course his wife. There is of course also evidence to suggest that Goebbels’ loyal Aryan wife was also cheating on him, with Karl Hanke. Hanke at the end of the war was basically the equivalent to the Governor of the German state of Lower Silesia, and then took over for Heinrich Himmler as Reichsführer-SS in the last week of the war.

The biggest irony behind Goebbels philandering is it was most often with women that he himself would probably have viewed as racially inferior; a Czech-Austrian woman, and a Russian-German divorcee’ who kept her Russian Jewish ex-husband’s surname. So yes, out of all of Nazi Germany’s inner societal scandals, this was probably the most ironic, and most blatant. Of course you also had Hermann Göring (Famously known for being the Head of the Luftwaffe, but also held many high ranking government positions) who was a well-known drug abuser, and a well-known Dandy who enjoyed overly extravagant luxuries, even as the world around him came crumbling down. Heinrich Himmler towards the end of the war was on one hand ramping up the Holocaust, and on the other hand was trying to open channels to negotiate favorable surrender (to spare his own life, and standing) with the Swedes and the Swiss, and at one point even the World Jewish Congress. The Minister of Armaments Albert Speer (Hitler’s favorite architect and friend) fragrantly disobeyed Hitler’s Nero Orders at the end of the war, to totally destroy Germany in a Scorch Earth Policy – if Germany could not win, it would go down in flames. That was a big scandal that personally pissed off Hitler. There were of course many more scandals. Many of the upper echelon of Nazi society had affairs, did drugs, disobeyed Hitler’s orders, and at the end of the war tried saving their asses. An evil regime that prided itself on purity and everyone working together for the greater good of their country, and their ideology, was rife with personal scandal and utter hypocrisy.

A thing which was publicly known (as so much people were involved) was the rampant corruption of Nazi administrators. The Reichsschatzmeister (the treasurer) of the NSDAP boasted/complained that he had to report nearly 11 000 (!) instances of corruption involving members of the party between 1934 and 1941.

One of the most extreme examples in scope and in the way it was handled, was Erich Koch.

Erich Koch was the Gauleiter (the party administrator) and Oberpräsident (the civilian administrator) of Ostpreußen, the poorest region in the Reich. The Nazis "did" quite a lot for the economy in Ostpreußen, job-creating schemes, building programs, such things. Which gave ample opportunities for administrators to skim "a bit". Plus, the Nazis had some very good preemption rights for things which were quite hastily sold by their proprietors.

This lead to the situation that over time, Erich Koch became the richest person in Ostpreußen. His innocently named "Erich-Koch-Stiftung" became a gigantic conglomerate of all the things he could steal and seize.

In 1934, the SS - Chief of Königsberg, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (who I will call Bach from now on), developed a rivalry against Koch.

A councilor of Königsberg, named Wolff, had some (maybe justified) critique about Koch supplying his crownies with jobs in the administration. Koch didn't concur.

So, in 1935, Wolff send a 75 pages (!) memo to Hitler, concerning Koch's corruption. Koch summoned Wolff and demanded copies of the memo, but Wolff resisted. So, Koch and some of his assistants beat up Wolff, who fled to Bach, who promptly reported this occurrence to Himmler.

Himmler arrested Koch and Bach literally wrote up hundreds (!) of testimonies about Koch's corruption.

It is not well known what happened then, but, following Wolff's version of the events, Koch was brought to Groß-Lichterfelde, presumably to be executed.

A few days later, Hitler reinstalled Koch into all his posts - Hitler ex machina. Hitler's favor for Koch and Koch's friendship to Bohrmann saved him. Later, he would become Chef der Zivilverwaltung of Bialystok and later, Reichskommissar of Ukraine, which he even more ruthlessly exploited than Ostpreußen.

After the war he was found guilty of war crimes and got the death penalty, which wasn't executed. He died in 1986 in a prison in Poland.