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The leaders of various nations serving as political officeholders during World War II (1939−1945). It includes both figureheads, executives, and foreign ministers. They do not necessarily need to have had a large impact on the war to be included in this category.
The Allied leaders of World War II listed below comprise the important political and military figures who fought for or supported the Allies during World War II. Engaged in total war , they had to adapt to new types of modern warfare , on the military , psychological and economic fronts.
The United States maintained its Constitutional Republic government structure throughout World War II.Certain expediencies were taken within the existing structure of the Federal government, such as conscription and other violations of civil liberties, including the internment and later dispersal of Japanese-Americans.
The Commanders of World War II were for the most part career officers.They were forced to adapt to new technologies and forged the direction of modern warfare. Some political leaders, particularly those of the principal dictatorships involved in the conflict, Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), and Hirohito (Japan), acted as dictators for their respective countries or empires.
The vast array of new ranks also allowed for a military appearance to the Nazi Party, in particular during World War II when political leaders were exempt from conscription. More ranks also involved more opportunity for promotion and served as a means to distinguish highly successful political leaders from others who might hold the same ...
Alfred Naujocks – An SS-Sturmbannführer, he led the attack on Gleiwitz radio station starting World War II on 1 September 1939. Werner Naumann – Private Secretary to Joseph Goebbels, he was made State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Propaganda and was named Goebbels’ successor as Reich Minister of Propaganda in Hitler’s will.
He was the highest-ranking SS leader to face trial at Nuremberg and be executed. Wilhelm Canaris was a German admiral, and chief of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944. During the Second World War, he was among the military officers involved in the clandestine opposition to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.
Saparmurat Niyazov, the late president for life of Turkmenistan, and former leader of the Turkmen Communist Party and later of the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan (the country's only political party), assumed from 22 October 1993 the unique, paternalistic national title Turkmenbashi (Türkmenbaşy in Turkmen), which means "Head of (all) the ...