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World War II
Albania
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burma
Canada
- Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), (1879-1964), politician and press tycoon
 - George Beurling, (1921-1948), fighter ace
 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, (1874-1950), Prime Minister
 - John Gillespie Magee, Junior, (1922-1941), American who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force[?] and author of "High Flight"
 - Andrew George Latta (Andy) McNaughton[?], (1887-1966), scientist, military commander, and diplomat
 - Tommy Prince[?] (1915-1977), Canada's most decorated soldier, a member of the joint US/Canada special commando unit known as the Devil's Brigade[?]
 
China
Czechoslovakia
- Edvard Benes, (1884-1948), Czech president-in-exile
 - Josef Frantisek[?], fighter ace
 - Emil Hacha[?], president
 - Konrad Henlein[?], Sudeten German[?] politician
 - Karel Miroslav Kuttelwascher [?], fighter ace
 - Jan Masaryk, (1886-1948), Czech Foreign minister-in-exile
 - Ludvik Svoboda[?], general
 - Jozef Tiso, (1887-1947), president of separatist Slovakia
 
Denmark
Egypt
Ethiopia
Finland
- Aksel Airo, (1898-1985), HQ strategic planner
 - Adolf Ehrnrooth, (born 1905), infantry general
 - Mauno Koivisto, (born 1923), president
 - Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, (1867-1951), Field Marshal and later president
 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi, (1870-1956), diplomat
 - Risto Ryti, (1889-1956), president
 - Hjalmar Siilasvuo, (1892-1947)
 - Lauri Törni, (1919-1965), Infantry captain
 
France
- Georges Bidault[?], French Resistance activist
 - Denise Bloch[?], French Resistance and SOE agent
 - Pierre Boisson[?], general and governor of Equatorial Africa
 - Pierre Brossolette, French Resistance
 - Mathilde Carre[?], French Resistance double agent[?]
 - Edouard Daladier[?], prime minister
 - Jean Francois Darlan, (1881-1942), admiral
 - Joseph Darnand[?], head of Vichy France Milice[?]
 - Charles De Gaulle, (1890-1970), leader of the Free French Forces and Gaullist French Resistance
 - Henri Dentz[?], Vichy France general in Syria
 - Maurice Gustave Gamelin[?], general
 - Henri Giraud[?], general who escaped from Germans
 - Albert Guerisse[?], French resistance
 - Noor Inayet Khan[?], SOE agent
 - Marie Pierre König[?], General and coordination of resistance activities
 - Pierre Laval[?], Vichy France foreign minister
 - Philippe Leclerc[?], General of Free French Forces
 - Jean Moulin, (1899-1943), French Resistance leader
 - Maurice Papon, (1910 - ), Nazi collaborator, convicted war criminal
 - Henri Philippe Pétain, (1856-1951), leader of Vichy France
 - Violette Szabo, (1921-1945), SOE agent
 - Paul Touvier, (1915-1996), Nazi collaborator and only Frenchman to be convicted of war crimes against humanity
 - Susan Travers, (born 1909)
 - Nancy Wake, (born 1912), fought alongside Maquis
 - Maxime Weygand, (1867-1965), general
 
Germany
(*) = Charged with crimes and tried at the Nuremberg Trials
- Klaus Barbie, (1913-1991), was a German officer of the SS and the Gestapo sent to occupied France where he became known as The Butcher of Lyon
 - Bayerlein, Fritz[?], Panzer general
 - Ludwig Beck, (1880-1944), General and member of the July Plot
 - Johannes Blaskowitz[?], Colonel General
 - Hugo Bleicher[?], German counter-intelligence operative in France
 - Fedor von Bock[?], Field marshal
 - Juana Bormann[?], (1903-1945), an SS officer at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen death camps.
 - Martin Bormann, (1900-unknown), highest ranking Nazi party administrator (*)
 - Herta Bothe[?], camp guard at Bergen-Belsen
 - Hans Bothmann[?] (1911-1946), a Commandant of the Chelmno[?] death camp in central Poland
 - Dr. Karl Brandt, ran the German T-4 Euthanasia Program
 - Eva Braun, (1912-1945), Hitler's mistress
 - Wernher von Braun, (1912-1977), rocket scientist
 - Prescott Bush, (1895-1972), banker and Nazi sympathizer
 - Wilhelm Canaris, (1887-1945), chief of Abwehr
 - Prof. Dr. Carl Clauberg[?] conducted experiments on Jewish women at Auschwitz extermination camp
 - John Demjanuk[?], notorious guard at the German extermination camps
 - Rudolf Diels, (1900-1957), first head of the Gestapo
 - Sepp Dietrich[?], SS general
 - Karl Dönitz, (1891-1980), Admiral, masterminded U-Boat warfare (*)
 - Adolf Eichmann, (1906-1962), top level bureaucrat
 - Theodor Eicke[?], (1892-1943), a Commandant of the Dachau death camp and head of the SS Death's-Head Units[?]
 - Nikolaus Falkenhorst[?], colonel general and commander of German troops in Norway
 - Eugen Fischer, (1874-1967), Professor of Anthropology who promoted racial purity
 - Hans Frank, (1900-1946), (1900-1945), lawyer for Adolf Hitler (*)
 - Walter Frank[?], (1905-1945), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer, he was president of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany[?]
 - Kurt Franz[?], (1917-1998), Deputy Commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp
 - Wilhelm Frick, (1877-1946), Reich Minister of the Interior (*)
 - Hans Fritzsche, (1900-1953), Nazi party official who served in the Reich Ministry for People's Enlightenment and Propaganda[?] (*)
 - Walther Funk, (1890-1960), was Adolf Hitler's personal advisor on economic affairs and a state secretary of the Propaganda Ministry (*)
 - Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe fighter ace
 - Hans Bernd Gisevius, (1904-1974), diplomat
 - Joseph Goebbels, (1897-1945),  Chancellor of Germany, propaganda chief for the Nazis
 - Amon Leopold Goeth[?], SS officer
 - Hermann Göring, (1893-1946), commander of Luftwaffe
 - Irma Grese, (1923-1945), a Senior SS Supervisor at both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen
 - Heinz Guderian, (1888-1954), Panzer colonel
 - Rudolf Hess, (1894-1987), Hitler's deputy (*)
 - Werner Heyde[?], involved in human experimentations
 - Reinhard Heydrich, (1904-1942), a General in the Nazi German paramilitary corps and governor of occupied Czechoslovakia
 - Heinrich Himmler, (1900-1945), head of Gestapo
 - Adolf Hitler, (1889-1945), Fuhrer of Germany
 - Rudolf Höss[?], first commandant of the extermination camps
 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, (1892-1946), a lawyer, and Commissioner of the Occupied Netherlands (*)
 - Alfred Jodl, (1890-1946), general, Chief of Operation Staff of the High Command of the Armed Forces (*)
 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, (1903-1946) chief of the German Security Service (*)
 - Wilhelm Keitel, (1882-1946), Field Marshal (*)
 - Albrecht Kesselring, (1881-1960), Field Marshal, commander of German troops in Italy
 - Gunther von Kluge[?], Field Marshal
 - Ilse Koch[?], (1906-1967), the wife of Karl Otto Koch, Commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp
 - Karl Otto Koch, (1897-1945) first commandant at Buchenwald Extermination camp
 - Josef Kramer[?] (1906-1945), was the head of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
 - Otto Kretschmer, (1912-1998), U-boat commander
 - Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach[?] (1870-1950), German industrialist and weapons manufacturer (*)
 - Alfried Krupp (1907-1967), arms manufacturer (*)
 - Hans Langsdroff[?], Commander of Graf Spee
 - Arthur Liebehenschel[?], (1901-1948), a Commandant of both the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps
 - Robert Ley (1890-1945), Nazi party chief who set up the German Labor Front(1890-1945) (*)
 - Maria Mandel[?] (1912-1947), chief-guard of Birkenau women's camp
 - Erich von Manstein, (1887-1973), Field Marshal
 - Dr. Josef Mengele, a doctor who performed experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz extermination camp
 - Walther Model, (1891-1945), Field Marshal
 - Werner Mölders[?], Luftwaffe fighter ace
 - Konstantin von Neurath, (1873-1956), Foreign minister of Germany (*)
 - Herta Oberheuser[?], (1911-1978), a doctor
 - Josef Oberhauser[?], commander of the Belzec extermination camp
 - Friedrich Paulus[?], Field Marshal and commander of German troops in Stalingrad
 - Erich Raeder, (1876-1960) Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy (*)
 - Walther von Reichenau[?], field marshal
 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, (1893-1946) Nazi foreign minister (*)
 - Lothar Rendulic[?]
 - Ernst Röhm (1887-1934), NSDAP party member, who organized Adolf Hitler's "Brownshirts"
 - Erwin Rommel, (1891-1944), Field Marshal, "Desert Fox"
 - Alfred Rosenberg, (1893-1946), Nazi ideologist (*)
 - Rudolf Rösseler[?], publisher and Soviet spy
 - Gerd von Rundstedt, (1875-1953), Field Marshal
 - Walther Schellenberg[?], SS general and secret service officer
 - Oskar Schindler, (1908-1974), humanitarian
 - Baldur von Schirach, (1907-1974), leader of the Hitler Youth movement (*)
 - Otto Skorzeny, (1908-1975), Commando lieutenant colonel
 - Hans and Sophie Scholl, (1917-1943), anti-nazis
 - Richard Sorge, (1895-1944), German-born Soviet spy in Japan
 - Albert Speer, (1905-1981), architect and coordinator of war production (*)
 - Franz Stangl[?], (1908-1971) a Commandant at Sobibor extermination camp in Poland
 - Claus von Stauffenberg, (1907-1944), Colonel and member of the July Plot
 - Julius Streicher (1885-1946), founded and edited the anti-Semitic newspaper, "Der Sturmer" (*)
 - Ernst Udet[?], inspector general of the Luftwaffe
 - Elisabeth Volkenrath[?], (1919-1945), guard at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
 - Christian Wirth[?], commander of the Belzec extermination camp
 
Greece
Hungary
India
Iraq
Ireland
Italy
- Vittorio Ambrosio[?], general
 - Amadoe of Aosta[?], Duke and Commander of Italian armies in Eritrea and Ethiopia
 - Pietro Badoglio, (1871-1956), field marshal
 - Italo Balbo[?], Governor of Libya
 - Annibale Bergonzoli, Lieutenant-General at Bardia
 - Valerio Borghese[?], Naval lieutenant commander
 - Francisco Cavalera
 - Ugo Cavallero[?], Chief of General Staff
 - Galeazzo Ciano, (1903-1944), diplomat
 - Victor Emmanuel III, (1869-1947)
 - Umberto, (1904-1983), Prince of Piedmont - Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom (de facto monarch) from 1943
 - Maria José[?], Princess of Piedmont - tried to negotiate separate peace with the United States
 - Carlo Favagrossa
 - Rodolfo Graziani, (1882-1955)
 - Benito Mussolini, (1883-1945), Il Duce
 - Vittorio Revetra
 
Japan
- Hatazo Adachi[?], Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in New Guinea
 - Korechika Anami[?], General and Minister of War in the end of the war
 - Mitsuo Fuchida[?], commander of Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor
 - Minory Genda[?], fighter commander
 - Haryoshi Hyakutake[?], lieutenant general in Guadalcanal
 - Masaharu Homma[?], general in invasion of Philippines
 - Masaki Honda[?], Lieutenant general in Burma
 - Koicho Kido[?], Lord Privy Seal
 - Mineschi Koga[?], admiral, successor of Yamamoto
 - Kuniaki Koiso, (1880-1950), lieutenant general
 - Nabutake Kondo[?], admiral in Guadalcanal
 - Fumimaro Konoye, (1891-1945), statesman
 - Tadamichi Kuribayashi[?], general in the Battle of Iwo Jima
 - Takeo Kurita[?], admiral in the Battle of Midway
 - Chuichi Nagumo, (1886-1944), Admiral
 - Hirohito, (1901-1989), emperor
 - Yosuke Matsuoka[?], Foreign minister
 - Guinichi Mikawa[?], Vice Admiral in the Battle of Savo Island
 - Kochisaburo Nomura[?], Admiral
 - Takijiro Onishi[?], admiral
 - Hiroo Onoda, (born 1922), post-war straggler
 - Jisaburo Ozawa[?], Vice-admiral and commander of Japanese Mobile Flee in the Battle of Leyte Gulf
 - Saburo Sakai[?], Zero fighter ace
 - Yoshitsugu Saito[?], general in Saipan
 - Mamoru Shigemitsu[?], Foreign minister
 - Hajime Sugiyama[?], general and Army Chief of Staff
 - Kantaro Suzuki, (1867-1948), prime minister
 - Raizo Tanaka[?], Rear Admiral and destroyer commander
 - Hisaichi Terauchi, (1879-1945), Field Marshal ad supreme commander of the Japanese Southern Army
 - Shigenori Togo[?], Foreign minister
 - Hideki Tojo, (1884-1948), general and military prime minister
 - Tokyo Rose
 - Soemu Toyoda[?], admiral
 - Yoshijiro Umezu[?], general
 - Mitsuru Ushijima[?], general in the defense of Okinawa
 - Isoroku Yamamoto, (1884-1943), admiral
 - Tomoyuki Yamashita[?], lieutenant general in Malaya, Singapore and Philippines
 
Malta
Manchuria
The Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Palestine
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
South Africa
Soviet Union
- Alexei Antonov[?], Chief of General Staff at the end of the war
 - Lavrenty Beria, (1899-1953), chief of NKVD
 - Nikolay Bulganin[?], political marshal
 - Vasili Chuikov[?], general and commander of Stalingrad
 - Leonid Govorov[?], marshal, liberator of Leningrad
 - Nikolay Kuznetsov[?], admiral
 - Vasili Kuznetsov[?], general
 - Maxim Litvinov[?], Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs before Molotov
 - Kirill Meretskov[?], marshall in Winter War
 - Vyacheslav Molotov, (1890-1986), Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs
 - Ivan Petrov[?], general
 - Konstantin Rokossovsky[?], marshal
 - Joseph Stalin, (1879-1953)
 - Semyon Timoshenko[?], Marshal
 - Andrey Tupolev, (1888-1972), aircraft designer
 - Nikolay Vatutin[?], general in the relief of Stalingrad
 - Andrey Vlasov[?], Lieutenant general and German-backed Russian Liberation Army
 - Kliment Voroshilov, (1881-1969), Marshal
 - Andrey Yeremenko[?], marshal and front line general in Stalingrad
 - Vasily Alexandrovich Zaitsev, sniper
 - Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, (1896-1974), marshal and chief of the Red Army
 
Spain
Sweden
Turkey
United Kingdom
- Harold Alexander, (1891-1969), Field Marshal
 - Geoffrey Appleyard[?], commando major
 - Clement Attlee, (1883-1967), Deputy Prime Minister
 - Claude Auchinleck, (1884-1981), Field Marshal
 - Douglas Bader, (1910-1982), Royal Air Force pilot with no legs
 - Ralph A. Bagnold, (1896-1990)
 - Stanley Baldwin, politician and ex-prime minister
 - Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), (1879-1964), politician and press tycoon
 - Donald Bennett[?], Air Vice-Marshal of RAF
 - Ernest Bevin[?], Minister of Labor and National Service
 - Tom Bird, Lieutenant at Tobruk
 - Alan Brooke, (1883-1963), Field Marshal
 - Frederick Browning[?], lieutenant general of airborne troops
 - Maurice Buckmaster[?], colonel of Special Operations Executive
 - Neville Chamberlain, (1869-1940), Prime Minister at the start of the war
 - Peter Churchill, SOE agent
 - Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), Prime Minister from 1940
 - John Cunningham[?], RAF group captain and night-fighter ace
 - William Dobbie, governor of Malta
 - Eric Dorman-Smith
 - Anthony Eden, (1897-1977), Foreign Secretary
 - Duke of Windsor, (1894-1972), (formerly Edward VIII)
 - Princess Elizabeth, (born 1926), (later Queen Elizabeth II)
 - Queen Elizabeth, (1900-2002), (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon), consort of King George VI
 - George VI, (1895-1952)
 - William Gott
 - Rex King-Clark
 - Arthur Harris[?], "Bomber", Air Chief Marshall of Bomber Command[?]
 - B.H. Liddell Hart, (1895-1970), Masterminded modern tank warfare, copied by Germans as Blitzkrieg
 - Leslie Hor-Belisha[?], Secretary of State for War
 - James Johnson[?], RAF fighter ace
 - Miles Lampson
 - John Lapsley
 - Robert Laycock[?], General of the "Layforce[?]"
 - Rea Leakey
 - Christopher Lee, (born 1922), volunteered to fight in the Winter war
 - Trafford Leigh-Mallory[?], Air Marshal and fighter commander
 - Fitzroy Maclean[?]
 - Leo Marks, (1920-2001)
 - Frank Merrill[?], Brigadier general and leader of "Merrill's Marauders[?]"
 - Bernard Montgomery, (1887-1976), Field Marshal
 - Oswald Mosley, (1896-1980), British fascist leader
 - Louis Mountbatten, (1900-1979), Vice-admiral
 - Airey Neave, (1916-1979)
 - Richard O'Connor
 - Charles Portal[?], Chief of Air Staff
 - Dudley Pound[?], Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord
 - Dan Ranfurly
 - Odette Sansom, (1912-1995), SOE agent
 - William Slim[?], general in Burmese front
 - Joseph Stillwell[?], General and Chiang Kai-Shek's chief of staff
 - David Stirling, (1915-1990), commando colonel and founder of Special Air Service
 - Alan Turing, (1912-1954), cryptographer
 - Susan Travers, (born 1909), French Foreign Legion member
 - Barnes Wallis, (1887-1979)
 - Archibald Wavell, field marshal
 - Henry Maitland Wilson, (1881-1964), field marshal
 - Orde Wingate[?], major general and founder of Chindits[?]
 - Edward Yeo-Thomas, (1901-1964), SOE agent
 
United States
- Henry Arnold, (1886-1950), USAAF general
 - Donald Blakeslee[?], fighter ace
 - Richard Bong, (1920-1945), USAAF fighter ace
 - Pappy Boyington[?]
 - Omar Bradley, (1893-1981), general
 - Lewis Hyde Brereton[?], Major general
 - Simon Bolivar Buckner[?], infantry general in Aleutian islands[?]
 - Arleigh Burke, (1901-1996), US Navy commander
 - George H. W. Bush, (born 1924), US Navy pilot
 - Prescott Bush, (1895-1972), banker and Nazi sympathizer
 - Claire Chennault, USAAF major general and organizer of Flying Tigers[?]
 - Clarence Craft[?]
 - William O. Darby
 - William Joseph Donovan[?], head of Office of Strategic Services
 - James Doolittle, (1896-1993), lieutenant general
 - Albert Einstein, (1879-1955), refugee and scientist
 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, (1890-1969)
 - Bonner Fellers
 - James Forrestal, (1892-1949), secretary of the Navy
 - William Frederick Friedman, (1891-1969), US cryptographer
 - Roy Geiger[?], marine commando general
 - Leslie Groves, (1896-1970), general and supervisor of Manhattan Project
 - William Halsey, (1882-1959), vice-admiral in Pacific
 - William Averell Harriman[?], Us ambassador to Moscow
 - Ira Hayes, (1923-1955)
 - William Joyce, (1906-1946), "lord Haw-Haw"
 - Douglas MacArthur, (1880-1964), General
 - George Marshall, (1880-1959)
 - Bill Mauldin, (1921-2003)
 - Audie Murphy[?]
 - Chester Nimitz, (1885-1966), Admiral
 - Robert Oppenheimer, (1904-1967), physicist in Manhattan Project
 - Matthew Bunker Ridgway[?], general
 - George Patton, (1885-1945), tank general
 - Ernest Pyle[?], war correspondent
 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (died 1945), President of the United States until his death in April 1945
 - Charles Ryder
 - Harry S. Truman, (1884-1972), President of the United States from April 1945
 - Lucian Truscott
 - Jonathan Wainwright, (1883-1953), major general in the defense of Bataan and Corregidor
 - Fred Walker
 
Vietnam
Yugoslavia
References
See also: List of people associated with World War I
 
 
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