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50 WWII figures

Leaders, generals, soldiers, spies, singers - in no particular order
Quiz by Amilcar
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Last updated: May 16, 2023
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First submittedMarch 21, 2023
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Marshalled Soviet forces to victory
Georgy Zhukov
Mistakenly thought he had peace in his time
Neville Chamberlain
Leader who died months before the war's end
Franklin Roosevelt
Emperor of a losing power
Hirohito
Supreme Allied Commander
Dwight Eisenhower
The 'Desert Fox'
Erwin Rommel
Helped crack Enigma intercepts
Alan Turing
Accepted Japan's surrender aboard USS Missouri
Chester Nimitz
Led his country from Chongqinq
Chiang Kai-shek
Il Duce
Benito Mussolini
'Old Blood and Guts'
George Patton
Victor of El Alamein
Bernard Montgomery
Big band leader MIA in 1944
Glenn Miller
Led the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Mordechai Anielewicz
Commander of the Burma Corps
William Slim
Shot himself in his bunker in 1945
Adolf Hitler
Bomber Command chief who destroyed Dresden
Arthur Harris
Ordered "Not one step backwards" in 1942
Joseph Stalin
His 'Chindit' forces waged guerilla war in Burma
Orde Wingate
Inspired British forces, singing "We'll meet again"
Vera Lynn
Luftwaffe leader convicted at Nuremburg
Hermann Goring
Hanged in Tokyo in 1948 for war atrocities
Hideki Tojo
Existentialist who fought for the French resistance
Albert Camus
German Reich Chancellor 30 April-1 May 1945
Joseph Goebbels
Formed the Free India Legion to fight the allies
Subhas Chandra Bose
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Said 'we will fight them on the beaches'
Winston Churchill
Gestapo chief and Holocaust architect
Heinrich Himmler
Commander-in-chief of US ground forces on D-Day
Omar Bradley
Jewish diarist
Anne Frank
Germany's top soldier, later hanged for war crimes
William Keitel
The 'Tiger of Malaya' who took Singapore
Tomoyuki Yamashita
His 'Life and Fate' showed Soviet people at war
Vasily Grossman
Led Finnish forces in the Winter War
Carl Mannerheim
Propaganda figure for the US war industry
Rosie the Riveter
WWI general who ran a Nazi-allied government
Philippe Petain
Defied Hitler by surrendering at Stalingrad
Friedrich Paulus
Fled France in 1940 to lead 'free' forces
Charles de Gaulle
U-boat chief who ordered German surrender
Karl Donitz
Student activist executed for defying Hitler
Sophie Scholl
Organised the US military expansion
George Marshall
His Red Army allied with nationalists against Japan
Mao Zedong
Kept his promise to return to the Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Stalingrad sniper lionised in film
Vasily Zaitsev
US airforce chief who targeted German oil
Carl Spaatz
Satirised military madness in 'Catch-22'
Joseph Heller
Signed an abortive pact with Joachim von Ribbentrop
Vyacheslav Molotov
Oversaw the Pearl Harbor attack
Isoroku Yamamoto
Balkan partisan leader
Josip Tito
Norwegian Nazi underling
Vidkun Quisling
Built the bomb to end Japan's war
Robert Oppenheimer
stalintime
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Level 76
Jan 15, 2024
A great quiz that can challenge even WW2 experts! Just one correction: Himmler headed the SS and not the Gestapo, that made me miss him...
Amilcar
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Level 66
Jan 16, 2024
Thank you - I'll change that
Ampersandwich
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Level 45
Jan 17, 2024
I looked it up to double check and Wikipedia says

"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

DorkmeisterBlu
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Level 72
Jan 15, 2024
It's Josip Broz, Tito was his nickname.
Amilcar
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Level 66
Jan 16, 2024
Yes fair point - though he's most widely known internationally as just Tito. But I'll be sure to add his real name as an acceptable answer.
Fianchetto
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Level 73
Jan 15, 2024
Nice quiz! Pavlov wouldn't be a bad one to have as well.
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Jan 15, 2024
Not my unbridled whimsy reading that as "WWE Figures"
Historyenjoyer
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Level 45
Jan 16, 2024
If you're writing about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, I would suggest adding Marek Edelman as a possible answer. He was a leader of the uprising later on (after Anielewicz committed suicide) and is a more well-known figure, since he lived through the war, worked as a surgeon and gave a famous interview "Shielding the Flame" about the Uprising.
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