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French Gen. Charles de Gaulle (L)
talking with his son Philippe
at his Free French Forces HQ in exile.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: 1941
Photograph: Hans Wild
Life Images
La réalisatrice
du documentaire
"Ce qu'ils savaient.
Les Alliés face à la
Shoah"
explique le silence
de Churchill, Staline,
Roosevelt et de Gaulle.
Le remarquable
documentaire
de Virginie
Linhart
révèle l'indifférence
générale des Alliés
face
à la Shoah.
Le Point.fr - Publié le 26/10/2012 à 18:40
-
Modifié le 27/10/2012 à 10:12
http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/
virginie-linhart-le-monde-d-avant-guerre-est-un-monde-antisemite-26-10-2012-
1521550_3.php
- broken link
UK
Charles de Gaulle's BBC rallying call to France Appel du 22 juin 22 June 1940
De Gaulle. L'appel du 18 juin
France Culture 18 June 2020
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUS5LHDkwP0
Il n'y a pas eu
d'enregistrement
(audio ou
vidéo (sic))
de l'Appel du 18 juin 1940
contrairement
à celui du 22 juin 1940,
avec
lequel
on le confond souvent
http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/pages/l-homme/dossiers-thematiques/
1940-1944-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale/l-appel-du-18-juin/documents/l-appel-du-22-juin-1940.php
- broken URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUS5LHDkwP0
United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle's BBC rallying call to France
Appel du 18 juin 18 June 1940
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/18/
charles-de-gaulle-bbc-broadcast
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/13/
de-gaulle-rallying-cry-almost-silenced
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10339678
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gaulle_charles_de.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/591468.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gaulle_charles_de.shtml
Harry S. Truman
1884-1972
33rd president of the United
States
from 1945 to 1953,
succeeding upon the death
of Franklin D. Roosevelt
after serving as vice president.
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/
899593615/hiroshima-atomic-bombing-raising-questions-75-years-later
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/
books/review/unconditional-marc-gallicchio.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/
world/asia/did-us-have-to-drop-atomic-bombs-on-hiroshima-and-nagasaki.html
Spain
Francisco Franco Bahamonde 1892-1975

General Franco, centre,
attends the second anniversary of the death of Primo de
Rivera,
founder of the Falangists, in Burgos, Spain, 1938.
Photograph: AP
A People Betrayed by Paul Preston review
– a magisterial study of Spain's turbulent past
From Primo de Rivera to General Franco …
a lively account of corruption,
political incompetence and social division
in modern Spain
G
Thu 2 Apr 2020 07.30 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/02/
a-people-betrayed-by-paul-preston-review-a-magisterial-study-of-spains-turbulent-past
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/02/
a-people-betrayed-by-paul-preston-review-a-magisterial-study-of-spains-turbulent-past
USA
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882-1945
32nd President of the United States (1933-1945)

Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt.L
Location: US
Date taken: September 1941
Photograph: Thomas D. Mcavoy
Life Images
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/franklin-delano-roosevelt
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/roosevelt_franklin_delano.shtml
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/32_f_roosevelt/index.html
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/fdr-churchill/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/09/
books/book-tries-for-balanced-view-on-roosevelt-and-jews.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/books/review/Brinkley-t.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,855117,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/fdr.html
https://www.fdrlibrary.org/
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/january-20/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/opinion/03smith.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/great-speeches-franklin-d-roosevelt
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1945/apr/13/secondworldwar.usa
USA
General Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
second world war
supreme
allied commander
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/macarthur-three-generations/
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0126.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/oct/29/macarthur-reel-history
USA
General Dwight David Eisenhower 1890-1969
supreme Allied Commander
in
Europe in World War Two
and later 34th
President of the United States

Ike Eisenhower
Lieut. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower (R),
Commander of the European
Theater of Operations,
conferring w. his friend & deputy
commander Maj. Gen. Mark
Clark,
in his office.
Location: US
Date taken: October 1942
Photograph:
Margaret Bourke-White
Life Images
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/eisenhower_dwight.shtml
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/dwight-david-eisenhower
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/
opinion/23colley.html
USA General Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964

Time Covers - The 40S
Time cover: 08-27-1945 of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
Date taken: August 27, 1945
Life Images
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0126.html
USA General George Smith Patton 1885-1945

Gen. George Patton
Date taken: April 1945
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White
Life Images
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/10/newsid_3587000/3587283.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1111.html
United Kingdom
Anthony Eden 1897-1977
In 1935
he became
foreign secretary
at the
extraordinarily
early age of 38,
although he resigned
within three years,
in protest
at Neville Chamberlain's
appeasement policy
towards Germany.
While he always had
an awkward relationship
with that other prominent
anti-appeaser,
Winston Churchill,
the latter's elevation
to the premiership
in
May 1940
restored Eden
to the Foreign Office.
In 1940-1945,
and again
in 1951-1955,
Eden was not only
Churchill's
foreign
secretary,
but also his acknowledged
and uncontested
successor
as leader
of the Conservative Party.
However,
he grew resentful
at Churchill's
refusal to step down
and by the time
he finally succeeded
Churchill
in April 1955,
he was already suffering
from poor health.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/eden_anthony.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/eden_anthony.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/17/newsid_3547000/3547151.stm
United Kingdom
Winston
Leonard Spencer Churchill 1874-1965

Winston Churchill.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: 1944
Photographer: Bob Landry
Life Images
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/winston-churchill
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/591468.stm
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/winston-leonard-spencer-churchill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/26/britain-
execution-nuremberg-nazi-leaders
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2012/oct/26/
nazi-shooting-nuremberg-international-justice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/jan/01/
secondworldwar.politics
United Kingdom
Arthur Harris 1892-1984

Time Covers - The 40S
Time cover: 06-07-1943 of Sir Arthur T. Harris.
Date taken: June 07, 1943
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=df11bbfec094dc2a
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/harris_arthur_bomber.shtml
United Kingdom
Neville Chamberlain 1869-1940
Prime Minister
May 1937-May 1940

English PM Neville Chamberlain
waving his hat to unseen crowd
at Oberwiesenfeld Airport
following a diplomatic meeting
w.
German leaders. to avoid conflict,
a policy which would become
known as appeasement.
Location: Munich, Germany
Date taken: September 1938
Photographer: Hugo Jaeger
Life Images
[ Hugo Jaeger was one of Hitler's personal photographers.
]
http://www.life.com/image/ugc1000272/in-gallery/27022
https://www.theguardian.com/world/neville-chamberlain
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/14/
appeasing-hitler-chamberlain-churchill-road-to-war-tim-bouverie-review
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/05/
appeasing-hitler-chamberlain-churchill-road-to-war-tim-bouverie-review
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/20/
chamberlain-hitler-appeasement-munich-agreement-archive-1938
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/18/
neville-chamberlain-diary-outbreak-exhibition
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/06/
second-world-war-declaration-chamberlain
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/23/
history.secondworldwar
http://digital.guardian.co.uk/guardian/2007/05/08/
pages/ber28.shtml
Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin Иосиф Сталин 1878-1953

Russia
Huge concrete statue of Stalin
wearing a belted
Army greatcoat
standing on the grounds
of the Agricultural Exhibition.
Location: Moscow, Russia
Date taken: August 1941
Photographer:
Margaret Bourke-White
Life Images
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/stalin_joseph.shtml
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/joseph-stalin
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/
world/europe/russia-historian-stalin-mass-graves.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/29/
the-remains-of-stalin-gulag-railroad-soviet-union-a-photo-essay
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/18/
last-days-of-stalin-joshua-rubinstein-review
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jul/24/
the-day-i-met-joseph-stalin-brush-with-greatness-berlin
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/11/
russian-children-books-illustration-stalin
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/29/
stalin-my-father
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/29/
stalin-daughter-svetlana-peters-dies
Axis powers
Japan
Emperor Hirohito 昭和天皇
1901-1989
124th Emperor of Japan,
reigning from December
25, 1926
until his death in 1989

Emperor Hirohito in his coronation clothing.
Location: Japan
Date taken: 1926
Life Images
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/hirohito_emperor.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/54/a2168354.shtml
Axis powers
Italy Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini
1883-1945

Benito Mussolini in Libya
Photograph: Time Life Pictures/Time & Life
Pictures/Getty Image
Mussolini's War by John Gooch review – fascist dreams of the 1930s and 40s
A meticulous, skilful account of the Duce’s
erratic and ultimately disastrous attempt to make
Italy a great power
G
Thu 21 May 2020 07.30 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/21/
mussolinis-war-by-john-gooch-review-fascist-dreams-of-the-1930s-and-40s

Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler (L)
walking past honor guard saluting
him
beside Italian dictator Benito Mussolini,
during visit to Rome.
Location: Rome, Italy
Date taken: May 04, 1938
Life Images

Hitler & Mussolini
German politico Adolf Hitler shaking hands
w. Italian dictator
Benito Mussolini
during their very first meeting;
6 mos. later
Hitler became
Fuehrer of the Third Reich.
Location: Venice, Italy
Date taken: June 14, 1934
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt
Life Images
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini 1883-1945
Founder of Fascism
and leader of Italy
from
1922 to 1943
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/mussolini_benito.shtml
http://www.theguardian.com/world/benito-mussolini
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/28/newsid_3564000/3564529.stm
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/21/
mussolinis-war-by-john-gooch-review-fascist-dreams-of-the-1930s-and-40s
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jun/01/
the-dictator-who-failed-to-dictate-free-range-architecture-under-mussolini
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/05/italy-abyssinia-second-world-war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/08/italian-fascism-collapse-ww2
https://www.theguardian.com/century/1930-1939/Story/0,,127069,00.html
https://www.theguardian.com/century/1930-1939/Story/0,,127000,00.html
Axis powers
Germany
Hermann Göring / Goering 1893-1946
Economics Minister,
Luftwaffe commander,
founder of the Gestapo,
Reichsmarschall,
Hitler’s right-hand man

Hitler/Jaeger File
Hermann Goering having a meal in Nuremberg Prison.
Location: Nuremberg, Germany
Date taken: October 1946
Life Images

Time Covers - The 40S
Time cover: 04-01-1940 of Hermann Goring.
Photo Credit: Black
Star.
Date taken: April 1940
Life Images

Fieldmarshal Hermann Goering (r)
being greeted by Nazi head of Austria,
Dr.
Arthur
Seyss-Inquart.
Location: Vienna, Austria
Date taken: 1938
Life Images
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/nuremberg_article_01.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4247069.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2654778
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/
books/jonathan-petropoulos-gorings-man-paris-nazi-art.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/nyregion/
ernest-michel-who-survived-auschwitz-and-led-jewish-charities-dies-at-92.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/
nazis-nuremberg-executed-hermann-goring
Axis powers
Germany Heinrich Himmler
1900-1945

Time Covers - The 40S
TIME cover: 02-12-1945 ill. of Germany's
Nazi SS Gestapo
leader Heinrich Himmler.
Date taken: February 12, 1945
Photographer: Ernest Hamlin Baker
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=e57be60f46edaccc
By June 1941,
when Germany
invaded
the Soviet Union,
Himmler controlled
not only
the police
but the political
administration
of the occupied territories
and, through
his control of
the
SS,
the concentration camp
system.
In 1943,
Hitler appointed
Himmler
minister for the interior.
In this post
he oversaw
the
'Final Solution'
- the attempt
to exterminate
all the Jewish people
in Europe -
and administered
the system
of forced labour.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/himmler_heinrich.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/himmler_heinrich.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/radicalisation_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/local-history/training-assassins-for-a-nazi-attack.shtml
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/heinrich-himmler-key-dates
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/ss
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/waffen-ss
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/26/
266698688/heinrich-himmlers-private-letters-published-in-german-newspaper
Axis Powers
Germany Reinhard Tristan Eugen
Heydrich 1904-1942

Life Images
February 23, 1942

Inventory: Bild 146 - Sammlung von Repro-Negativen
Signature: Bild 146-1969-054-16
Old signature: Bild 146-1968-101-14A
Archive title: Porträt Reinhard Heydrich
in der Uniform eines
SS-Gruppenführers
ca. 1940/1941
Dating: 1940/1941 ca.
Photographer: Hoffmann, Heinrich
Origin: Bundesarchiv
http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archives/barchpic/search/_1269604570/?search[view]=detail&search[focus]=1
Photo pasted from Wikipedia
http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archives/barchpic/search/_1269604570/?search[view]=detail&search[focus]=1
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-054-16%2C_Reinhard_Heydrich.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-054-16,_Reinhard_Heydrich.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich
Primary source > Bundesarchiv
http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archives/barchpic/search/_1269604570/?search[view]=detail&search[focus]=1
Heydrich
was Hitler's
right-hand man
and was tipped
to one day
succeed
the leader
himself.
He was ruler
of the occupied
Czech Republic
and by 1942
he had killed hundreds
and was
ferociously
stamping out
resistance.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/local-history/training-assassins-for-a-nazi-attack.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/radicalisation_01.shtml
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