Hint
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Answer
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Marshalled Soviet forces to victory
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Georgy Zhukov
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Mistakenly thought he had peace in his time
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Neville Chamberlain
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Leader who died months before the war's end
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Franklin Roosevelt
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Emperor of a losing power
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Hirohito
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Supreme Allied Commander
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Dwight Eisenhower
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The 'Desert Fox'
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Erwin Rommel
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Helped crack Enigma intercepts
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Alan Turing
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Accepted Japan's surrender aboard USS Missouri
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Chester Nimitz
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Led his country from Chongqinq
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Il Duce
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Benito Mussolini
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'Old Blood and Guts'
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George Patton
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Victor of El Alamein
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Bernard Montgomery
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Big band leader MIA in 1944
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Glenn Miller
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Led the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
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Mordechai Anielewicz
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Commander of the Burma Corps
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William Slim
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Shot himself in his bunker in 1945
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Adolf Hitler
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Bomber Command chief who destroyed Dresden
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Arthur Harris
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Ordered "Not one step backwards" in 1942
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Joseph Stalin
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His 'Chindit' forces waged guerilla war in Burma
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Orde Wingate
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Inspired British forces, singing "We'll meet again"
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Vera Lynn
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Luftwaffe leader convicted at Nuremburg
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Hermann Goring
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Hanged in Tokyo in 1948 for war atrocities
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Hideki Tojo
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Existentialist who fought for the French resistance
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Albert Camus
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German Reich Chancellor 30 April-1 May 1945
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Joseph Goebbels
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Formed the Free India Legion to fight the allies
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Subhas Chandra Bose
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Said 'we will fight them on the beaches'
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Winston Churchill
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Gestapo chief and Holocaust architect
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Heinrich Himmler
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Commander-in-chief of US ground forces on D-Day
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Omar Bradley
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Jewish diarist
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Anne Frank
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Germany's top soldier, later hanged for war crimes
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William Keitel
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The 'Tiger of Malaya' who took Singapore
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Tomoyuki Yamashita
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His 'Life and Fate' showed Soviet people at war
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Vasily Grossman
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Led Finnish forces in the Winter War
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Carl Mannerheim
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Propaganda figure for the US war industry
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Rosie the Riveter
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WWI general who ran a Nazi-allied government
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Philippe Petain
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Defied Hitler by surrendering at Stalingrad
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Friedrich Paulus
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Fled France in 1940 to lead 'free' forces
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Charles de Gaulle
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U-boat chief who ordered German surrender
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Karl Donitz
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Student activist executed for defying Hitler
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Sophie Scholl
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Organised the US military expansion
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George Marshall
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His Red Army allied with nationalists against Japan
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Mao Zedong
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Kept his promise to return to the Philippines
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Douglas MacArthur
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Stalingrad sniper lionised in film
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Vasily Zaitsev
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US airforce chief who targeted German oil
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Carl Spaatz
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Satirised military madness in 'Catch-22'
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Joseph Heller
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Signed an abortive pact with Joachim von Ribbentrop
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Vyacheslav Molotov
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Oversaw the Pearl Harbor attack
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Isoroku Yamamoto
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Balkan partisan leader
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Josip Tito
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Norwegian Nazi underling
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Vidkun Quisling
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Built the bomb to end Japan's war
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Robert Oppenheimer
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"From 1943 onwards, he was both Chief of the Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police) and Minister of the Interior, overseeing all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo (Secret State Police). He also controlled the Waffen-SS, the military branch of the SS."
TL;DR, he did both