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Violette Szabo
Violette Szabo (1921–1945) was a British SOE agent who fought with the French Resistance, was captured by the Gestapo, and was executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
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Violette Szabo
Violette Szabo (1921–1945) was a British SOE agent who fought with the French Resistance, was captured by the Gestapo, and was executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Erich Raeder
Erich Raeder (1876–1960) was Grand Admiral and commander of the German Navy from 1928 to 1943, architect of Plan Z, and a defendant sentenced to life imprisonment at Nuremberg.
Sepp Dietrich
Sepp Dietrich (1892–1966) was the Waffen-SS general who commanded Hitler's bodyguard division, the 1st SS Panzer Division and the 6th Panzer Army — and was convicted for the Malmedy massacre.
Otto Carius
Otto Carius (1922–2015) was a German Tiger tank commander credited with more than 150 tanks destroyed — a figure historians dispute — and author of the memoir Tigers in the…
Douglas Bader
Douglas Bader (1910–1982) was the RAF fighter ace who flew with two artificial legs, led the Duxford Wing in the Battle of Britain, and became a prisoner of war at…
Ernest King
Ernest King (1878–1956) was the U.S. Navy's Commander-in-Chief and Chief of Naval Operations in the Second World War, the admiral who directed the Pacific offensive and the Battle of the…
Roza Shanina
Roza Shanina (1924–1945) was a Soviet sniper credited with 59 confirmed kills, a diarist of the Eastern Front, and one of the most famous women soldiers of the Second World…
Adolf Galland
Adolf Galland (1912–1996) was Germany's leading fighter ace of the Western Front with 104 victories, General of the Fighter Arm at 29, and the Luftwaffe general who clashed with Göring…
Gerd von Rundstedt
Gerd von Rundstedt (1875–1953) was Germany's senior field marshal, commanding the invasions of Poland and France, Army Group South in Russia, and German forces in the West in 1944–1945.
Bernard Freyberg
Bernard Freyberg won the Victoria Cross in the First World War and commanded the 2nd New Zealand Division through Greece, Crete, North Africa and Italy.
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| Title | Date | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Adolf Galland | November 10, 2026 | Figures |
| Adolf Hitler | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Alan Turing | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Albert Einstein | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Alexander Pokryshkin | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Arleigh Burke | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Bernard Freyberg | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Charles de Gaulle | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Chester W. Nimitz | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Chiang Kai-shek | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Douglas Bader | November 10, 2026 | Figures |
| Douglas MacArthur | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Eileen Nearne | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Erich Raeder | November 10, 2026 | Figures |
| Erich Rudorffer | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Ernest King | November 10, 2026 | Figures |
| Erwin Rommel | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Fyodor Okhlopkov | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| George Marshall | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Georgy Zhukov | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Gerd von Rundstedt | November 10, 2026 | Figures |
| Günther Rall | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Irena Sendler | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Jisaburo Ozawa | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Joachim Schepke | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Joseph Stalin | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Josip Broz Tito | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Nadezhda Popova | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Neville Chamberlain | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Omar Bradley | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Otto Carius | November 10, 2026 | Figures |
| Otto Kittel | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Roza Shanina | November 10, 2026 | Figures |
| Sepp Dietrich | November 10, 2026 | Figures |
| Thomas Kinkaid | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Violette Szabo | November 10, 2026 | Figures |
| Wernher von Braun | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Winston Churchill | November 9, 2026 | Figures |
| Wolfgang Lüth | November 9, 2026 | Figures |