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Ernest Taylor Pyle was an American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. Pyle is also notable for…
Ernie Pyle, American journalist and soldier (born 1900)
Erwin Konrad Eduard Bumke was the last president of the Reichsgericht, the supreme civil and criminal court of the German Reich, serving from 1929 to 1945. As such, according to th…
Erwin Bumke, Polish-German jurist and politician (born 1874)
Otto Moritz Walter Model was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. Although he was a hard-driving, aggressive panzer commander early in the war, Model became best know…
Walter Model, German field marshal (born 1891)
Wilhelm Cauer was a German mathematician and scientist. He is most noted for his work on the analysis and synthesis of electrical filters and his work marked the beginning of the f…
Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and academic (born 1900)
Käthe Kollwitz was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of…
Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (born 1867)
Ernst-Robert Grawitz was a German physician and an SS functionary during the Nazi era. Grawitz funded Nazi programs involving experimentation on inmates in Nazi concentration camps…
Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (born 1899)
Huldreich Georg Früh was a Swiss composer.
Huldreich Georg Früh, Swiss composer (born 1903)
Sigmund Rascher was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) doctor. He conducted deadly experiments on humans pertaining to high altitude, freezing and blood coagulation under the patronage of…
Sigmund Rascher, German physician (born 1909)
Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadsky was a Ukrainian aristocrat, military leader and statesman who served as the hetman of the Ukrainian State throughout 1918 following a coup d'état on 29 …
Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (born 1871)
Roberto Farinacci was a leading Italian fascist politician and important member of the National Fascist Party before and during World War II, as well as one of its ardent antisemit…
Roberto Farinacci, Italian soldier and politician (born 1892)
Hans Otto Georg Hermann Fegelein was a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany. He was a member of Adolf Hitler's entourage and brother-in-law to Eva Braun through …
Hermann Fegelein, German general (born 1906)
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and dictator who led Italy as Il Duce from 1922 until his overthrow in 1943. He founded the fascist movement…
Benito Mussolini, Italian journalist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1883)
Eva Anna Paula Hitler was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun met Hitler in Munich in 1929 when she was an assistant an…
Eva Braun, German photographer and office and lab assistant, wife of Adolf Hitler (born 1912)
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the N…
Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German politician and author, dictator of Nazi Germany (born 1889)
Johanna Maria Magdalena Goebbels was the wife of Nazi Germany's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. A prominent member of the Nazi Party, she was a close ally, companion, and poli…
Magda Goebbels, German wife of Joseph Goebbels (born 1901)
Martin Ludwig Bormann was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, private secretary to Adolf Hitler, and a war criminal. Bormann gained immense power b…
Martin Bormann, German politician (born 1900)
Joseph Aloysius Corbett was an American Major League Baseball starting pitcher who played in the National League. He was born in San Francisco, California.
Joe Corbett, American baseball player and journalist (born 1875)
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933…
Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1897)
Moritz Albrecht Franz Friedrich Fedor von Bock was a German Generalfeldmarschall who served in the German Army during the Second World War. Bock served as the commander of Army Gro…
Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (born 1880)
Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Edward Bourne OBE DCM was a decorated British soldier and the last living survivor of the defence of Rorke's Drift during the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War. He also …
Frank Bourne, British soldier, last survivor of the Battle of Rorke's Drift (born 1854)
Julius Hirsch was a German international footballer. A Jew, he was executed at Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust. He helped the Karlsruher FV win the 1910 German fo…
Julius Hirsch, German footballer (born 1892)
Friedrich Wilhelm Rediess was a German Nazi official who served as the SS and police leader during the German occupation of Norway in the Second World War. He was also the commande…
Wilhelm Rediess, German SS officer (born 1900)
Bernhard Rust was Minister of Science, Education and National Culture (Reichserziehungsminister) in Nazi Germany. A combination of school administrator and zealous Nazi, he issued …
Bernhard Rust, German lieutenant and politician (born 1883)
Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven was a German Nazi Party official and politician who was the long-serving Gauleiter of Gau Essen and the Reichskommissar for Norway during the Germa…
Josef Terboven, German lieutenant and politician (born 1898)