Notable WWII deaths

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Notable WWII deaths 2017-01-18 05:43:48 Post No. 2242236
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Notable WWII deaths Anonymous 2017-01-18 05:43:48 Post No. 2242236 [Report]

What are the most high profile deaths that occured during WWII. It seems like this war was extra hazardous for the elite.

1.Adolf Hitler (30 IV 1945)
2.Franklin Delano Roosevelt (12 IV 1945)
3.Benito Mussolini (28 IV 1945)
-.Heinrich Himmler (23 V 1945) (during WWII but after it ended in Europe)
4.Erwin Rommel (14 X 1944)
5.Joseph Goebbels (1 V 1945)
6.Isoroku Yamamoto (18 IV 1943)
7.Martin Bormann (2 V 1945)
8.Wladislav Sikorski (4 IV 1943)
9.Reinhard Heydrich (4 VI 1942)
10.Lesley McNair (25 VII 1944)
11.Fritz Todt (8 II 1942)
12.Trafford Leigh-Mallory (12 XI 1944)
13.Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (12 VI 1944)

Other notable deaths include Yakov Dzhugashvili, Michael Wittmann adn a musician Glenn Miller. Did I miss anybody?

Anonymous 2017-01-18 05:47:17 Post No.2242242
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Anonymous 2017-01-18 05:47:17 Post No.2242242 [Report]

>>2242236
april 1945 was a transition time for many heads of state.
hitler
roosevelt
mussolini

Anonymous 2017-01-18 05:48:32 Post No.2242248
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Anonymous 2017-01-18 05:48:32 Post No.2242248 [Report]

>>2242242
Especially Mussolini and Hitler. Such an iconic duo and they died two days apart in completely unrelated circumstances (other than the total colapse of the Axis that is).

Anonymous 2017-01-18 06:16:30 Post No.2242347
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Anonymous 2017-01-18 06:16:30 Post No.2242347 [Report]

>be SS officer
>get assassinated

Anonymous 2017-01-18 06:20:02 Post No.2242366
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Anonymous 2017-01-18 06:20:02 Post No.2242366 [Report]

Oh, right. Walter Model (21 IV 1945).

Anonymous 2017-01-18 06:20:03 Post No.2242367
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Anonymous 2017-01-18 06:20:03 Post No.2242367 [Report]

>>2242236
Vatutin killed in 1944

Anonymous 2017-01-18 09:02:21 Post No.2243057
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Anonymous 2017-01-18 09:02:21 Post No.2243057 [Report]

>>2242367
And Jezhov but he was a nobody by that point.

Anonymous 2017-01-18 09:53:58 Post No.2243340
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Anonymous 2017-01-18 09:53:58 Post No.2243340 [Report]

>Rommel that high
>above Goebbels and all the Marshals
He was a mediocre General at best.

Anonymous 2017-01-18 09:57:57 Post No.2243365
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Anonymous 2017-01-18 09:57:57 Post No.2243365 [Report]

>>2243340
Goebbels was past his prime during the war.

Anonymous 2017-01-18 10:36:00 Post No.2243546
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Anonymous 2017-01-18 10:36:00 Post No.2243546 [Report]

>>2242236
>It seems like this war was extra hazardous for the elite.
>not a single capitalist is touched and, in fact, german and western businessmen got even wealthier while selling goods to the armies
>hazardous

Anonymous 2017-01-18 10:43:29 Post No.2243581
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Anonymous 2017-01-18 10:43:29 Post No.2243581 [Report]

>>2242236
>top ranking nazis
well what did you expect they surrender and experience the shame and death penalty at trials?

>mcnair
well for one using heavy bombers for CAS

what else
>a bunch of plane crashes
still relatively new tech for being so widespread

Anonymous 2017-01-19 06:37:04 Post No.2245338
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Anonymous 2017-01-19 06:37:04 Post No.2245338 [Report]

>>2242242
Mussolini is easily the most chilling, although after what he did I don't blame people for treating his corpse that way.

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