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Spain    Francisco Franco Bahamonde    1892-1975

General Franco, centre,

attends the second anniversary of the death of Primo de Rivera,

founder of the Falangists, in Burgos, Spain, 1938.

Photograph: AP

A People Betrayed by Paul Preston review

– a magisterial study of Spain's turbulent past

From Primo de Rivera to General Franco …

a lively account of corruption,

political incompetence and social division

in modern Spain

G

Thu 2 Apr 2020    07.30 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/02/
a-people-betrayed-by-paul-preston-review-a-magisterial-study-of-spains-turbulent-past

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/02/
a-people-betrayed-by-paul-preston-
review-a-magisterial-study-of-spains-turbulent-past

Japan

Emperor Hirohito    昭和天皇    1901-1989

124th Emperor of Japan,

reigning from December 25, 1926

until his death in 1989

Emperor Hirohito in his coronation clothing.

Location: Japan

Date taken: 1926

Life Images

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/
hirohito_emperor.shtml
 

Italy    Benito Mussolini    1883-1945

Benito Mussolini in Libya

Photograph: Time Life Pictures

Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

Mussolini's War by John Gooch review

– fascist dreams of the 1930s and 40s

A meticulous, skilful account of the Duce’s

erratic and ultimately disastrous attempt

to make Italy a great power

G

Thu 21 May 2020    07.30 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/21/
mussolinis-war-by-john-gooch-review-fascist-dreams-of-the-1930s-and-40s

Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler (L)

walking past honor guard saluting him

beside Italian dictator Benito Mussolini,

during visit to Rome.

Location: Rome, Italy

Date taken: May 04, 1938

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Hitler & Mussolini

German politico Adolf Hitler shaking hands

w. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini

during their very first meeting;

6 mos. later Hitler became Fuehrer of the Third Reich.

Location: Venice, Italy

Date taken: June 14, 1934

Photograph: Alfred Eisenstaedt

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Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini    1883-1945

Founder of Fascism and leader of Italy

from 1922 to 1943

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/mussolini_benito.shtml

https://www.theguardian.com/world/
benito-mussolini  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/28/
newsid_3564000/3564529.stm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Benito_Mussolini

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/04/
mussolini-march-on-rome-was-neither-peaceful-nor-bloodless

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/18/
edda-mussolini-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-europe-
by-caroline-moorehead-review-painstaking-portrait-of-a-paradoxical-figure

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/21/
mussolinis-war-by-john-gooch-review-fascist-dreams-of-the-1930s-and-40s

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jun/01/
the-dictator-who-failed-to-dictate-free-range-architecture-under-mussolini

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/05/
italy-abyssinia-second-world-war 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/08/
italian-fascism-collapse-ww2 

https://www.theguardian.com/century/1930-1939/
Story/0,,127069,00.html 

https://www.theguardian.com/century/1930-1939/
Story/0,,127000,00.html

Germany

Hermann Göring / Goering    1893-1946

Economics Minister,

Luftwaffe commander,

founder of the Gestapo,

Reichsmarschall,

Hitler’s right-hand man

Hitler/Jaeger File

Hermann Goering having a meal in Nuremberg Prison.

Location: Nuremberg, Germany

Date taken: October 1946

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Time Covers - The 40S

Time cover: 04-01-1940 of Hermann Goring.

Photo Credit: Black Star.

Date taken: April 1940

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Fieldmarshal Hermann Goering (r)

being greeted by Nazi head of Austria,

Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart.

Location: Vienna, Austria

Date taken: 1938

Life Images

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/
worldwars/wwtwo/nuremberg_article_01.shtml 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4247069.stm 

https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A2654778

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Hermann_Göring

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/11/
nx-s1-5487719/nuremberg-james-vanderbilt

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/30/
five-skeletons-wolfs-lair-home-hermann-goring-poland

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/
books/jonathan-petropoulos-gorings-man-paris-nazi-art.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/
nyregion/ernest-michel-who-survived-auschwitz-and-led-jewish-charities-
dies-at-92.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/
nazis-nuremberg-executed-hermann-goring

Germany    Heinrich Himmler    1900-1945

Time Covers - The 40S

TIME cover: 02-12-1945 ill. of Germany's

Nazi SS Gestapo leader Heinrich Himmler.

Date taken: February 12, 1945

Photographer: Ernest Hamlin Baker

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http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=e57be60f46edaccc

By June 1941,

when Germany invaded the Soviet Union,

Himmler controlled not only the police

but the political administration

of the occupied territories

and, through his control of the SS,

the concentration camp system.

In 1943,

Hitler appointed Himmler

minister for the interior.

In this post he oversaw

the 'Final Solution'

- the attempt to exterminate

all the Jewish people in Europe -

and administered the system

of forced labour.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/himmler_heinrich.shtml

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/
himmler_heinrich.shtml 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/
genocide/radicalisation_01.shtml 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/local-history/
training-assassins-for-a-nazi-attack.shtml

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/
heinrich-himmler-key-dates 

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/ss

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/waffen-ss

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/26/
266698688/heinrich-himmlers-private-letters-published-in-german-newspaper

Germany    Reinhard Heydrich    1904-1942

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February 23, 1942

Inventory: Bild 146 - Sammlung von Repro-Negativen

Signature: Bild 146-1969-054-16

Old signature: Bild 146-1968-101-14A

Archive title: Porträt Reinhard Heydrich

in der Uniform eines SS-Gruppenführers

ca. 1940/1941

Dating: 1940/1941 ca.

Photographer: Hoffmann, Heinrich

Origin: Bundesarchiv

http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archives/barchpic/search/
_1269604570/?search[view]=detail&search[focus]=1

Photo pasted from Wikipedia

http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archives/barchpic/search/_1269604570/?search[view]=detail&search[focus]=1

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-054-16%2C_Reinhard_Heydrich.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-054-16,_Reinhard_Heydrich.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich

Primary source > Bundesarchiv

http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archives/barchpic/search/
_1269604570/?search[view]=detail&search[focus]=1

Heydrich was Hitler's right-hand man

and was tipped to one day succeed

the leader himself.

He was ruler of the occupied Czech Republic

and by 1942 he had killed hundreds

and was ferociously stamping out resistance.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/local-history/
training-assassins-for-a-nazi-attack.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Reinhard_Heydrich

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/
genocide/radicalisation_01.shtml

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