People

People

Commanders and politicians linked to the units and events of the atlas. Biographies are short and based on tertiary sources — full biographies require scholarly works.

• Adolf Hitler

  politicianGermany1889–1945

  Führer and Reich Chancellor 1934–1945

• Albert Kesselring

  commanderGermany1885–1960

  Commander Luftflotte 2 1940–1943

• Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  commanderSoviet Union1895–1977

  Chief of the General Staff 1942–1945

• Benito Mussolini

  politicianItaly1883–1945

  Prime Minister (Duce) 1922–1943

• Bernard Montgomery

  commanderUnited Kingdom1887–1976

  Commander 8th Army 1942–1943

• Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

  commanderFinland1867–1951

  Commander-in-Chief 1939–1944

• Charles de Gaulle

  politicianFrance1890–1970

  Leader of Free France 1940–1944

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

  commander1890–1969

  Supreme Commander AEF 1943–1945

• Erich von Manstein

  commanderGermany1887–1973

  C-in-C Army Group South 1943–1944

• Erwin Rommel

  commanderGermany1891–1944

  Commander Afrika Korps / Panzer Army Africa 1941–1943

• Fedor von Bock

  commanderGermany1880–1945

  C-in-C Army Group North 1939–1939

• Friedrich Paulus

  commanderGermany1890–1957

  Commander 6th Army 1942–1943

• George S. Patton

  commander1885–1945

  Commander US 3rd Army 1944–1945

• Georgy Zhukov

  commanderSoviet Union1896–1974

  Commander Leningrad Front 1941–1941

• Gerd von Rundstedt

  commanderGermany1875–1953

  C-in-C Army Group South 1939–1939

• Heinz Guderian

  commanderGermany1888–1954

  Commander Panzer Group 2 1941–1941

• Hugh Dowding

  commanderUnited Kingdom1882–1970

  AOC Fighter Command 1936–1940

• Ion Antonescu

  politicianRomania1882–1946

  Conducător, Prime Minister 1940–1944

• Ivan Konev

  commanderSoviet Union1897–1973

  Commander Western Front 1942–1943

• Joseph Stalin

  politicianSoviet Union1878–1953

  General Secretary of the CPSU 1922–1953

• Josip Broz Tito

  commanderYugoslavia1892–1980

  Supreme Commander of the Yugoslav Partisans 1941–1945

• Konstantin Rokossovsky

  commanderSoviet Union1896–1968

  Commander Don / Central / 1st Belorussian Front 1942–1944

• Miklós Horthy

  politicianHungary1868–1957

  Regent of Hungary 1920–1944

• Omar Bradley

  commander1893–1981

  Commander US 1st Army 1943–1944

• Philippe Pétain

  politicianFrance1856–1951

  Chief of the French State (Vichy) 1940–1944

• Reinhard Heydrich

  politicianGermany1904–1942

  Chief of the Reich Security Main Office 1939–1942

• Stanisław Maczek

  commanderPoland1892–1994

  Commander 1st Polish Armoured Division 1942–1945

• Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski

  commanderPoland1895–1966

  Commander of the Home Army 1943–1944

• Walter Model

  commanderGermany1891–1945

  C-in-C Army Group North 1944–1944

• Winston Churchill

  politicianUnited Kingdom1874–1965

  Prime Minister 1940–1945

• Władysław Anders

  commanderPoland1892–1970

  Commander Polish II Corps 1943–1946

• Władysław Sikorski

  politicianPoland1881–1943

  Prime Minister in exile and Commander-in-Chief 1939–1943

• Zygmunt Berling

  commanderPoland1896–1980

  Commander 1st Polish Army 1944–1944