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Born October 21, 1874 • Switzerland
Died April 8, 1960 (aged 85) • Lausanne • Switzerland
Role In World War II
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
United States military officer
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
president of United States
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
president of France
George S. Patton
George Patton
United States general
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek
Chinese statesman
Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring
German minister
Harold K. Johnson
United States Army officer
Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel
German field marshal
Adolf Eichmann listening to an Israeli court's verdict
Adolf Eichmann
German military official
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur
United States general
George C. Marshall
George C. Marshall
United States general
John Clifford Hodges Lee
United States Army officer
Philippe Pétain
Philippe Pétain
French general
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi leader
Aaron Bank
United States Army officer
Franz Halder, 1938.
Franz Halder
German general
Georgy Zhukov
Georgy Zhukov
Soviet marshal
Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Heydrich
German Nazi official
Walton H. Walker
American military officer
Paulus, Friedrich
Friedrich Paulus
German military officer

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