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| 1 | Adenauer, Konrad (de) [Edit] | Politician | | 5 Jan 1876 | 19 Apr 1967 | Keulen | Germany | Major of Cologne. | Chancelor of Germany in 1949. |
|  Mayor of Cologne and was arrested because of his anti nazi sympathies. He removed the naziflags from Cologne and refused to meet Hitler. He was reinstated as Major by the Americans after the war but removed from office by the English for incompetence. He became Chancelor of Germany in 1949. |
| 2 | Amery, Leopold [Edit] | Politician | | 22 Nov 1873 | 16 Sep 1955 | Gorakhpur | india | Secretary of State for India and Burma. | Lost the elections of '45 and thus lost his seat. |
|  A member of the Conservative Party, in 1911 Amery was elected to represent Sparkbrook, Birmingham, in the House of Commons. In the government headed by David Lloyd George, he served as under-secretary of state for the colonies (1919-21). This was followed by the post of First Lord of the Admiralty (1922-24) and then colonial secretary (1924-29). After Churchill became Prime Minister Amery was appointed Secretary of State for India and Burma. He set up a committee to advise Churchill on strategy's to fight the Japanese in India. |
| 3 | Anderson, John [Edit] | Politician | | 8 Jul 1882 | 4 Jan 1958 | Edinburgh | United Kingdom | Chancellor of the Exchequer. | John Anderson died in London on 4th January 1958. |
|  Anderson joined the War Cabinet in October 1940 as Lord President of the Council. In this post he was responsible for organizing civilian and economic resources. He was also responsible for suppressing the Communist Party supporting the Daily Worker. In October 1943 he became Chancellor of the Exchequer where he introduced the PAYE system for income tax payment. |
| 4 | Attlee, Clement Richard [Edit] | Politician | | 3 Jan 1883 | 8 Oct 1967 | Londen | United Kingdom | Britsh Prime Minister. | |
|  In May 1940 he supported the prime ministry of Winston Churchill, and, during the war, served in the war cabinet as lord privy seal (1940-42), deputy prime minister (1942-45), secretary of state for the dominions (1942-43), and lord president of the council (1943-45). |
| 5 | Ba Maw [Edit] | Politician | | 8 Feb 1893 | 29 May 1977 | Maubin | Myanmar | Prime minister of Burma | Arrested and interned by the Americans in Tokyo |
|  Prime Minister during the Japanese occupation of Burma. He was appointed national leader by the Japanese. In 1943 Burma was declared independent and he was appointed head of state. He had no real power since the Japanese ruled the country. When the British overran Burma he was arrested and jailed. |
| 6 | Balbo, Italo [Edit] | Politician | | 1896 | 1940 | | Italy | Governor of Libya | Shot down over Libya by Italian antiaircraft artillery |
|  Balbo was one of the most flamboyant politicians of the Fascist movement. He was a distinguished pioneer aviator, had been Minister of Aviation and in 1936 was appointed Governor of Libya. He strongly opposed Mussolini's alliance with Hitler and urged Mussolini to take no part in the war. |
| 7 | Blum, Leon (de) [Edit] | Politician | | 9 Apr 1872 | 30 Mar 1950 | Parijs | France | Prime minister of France. | Held captive in Buchenwald and Dachau. |
|  Blum became France's first socialist Prime minister in 1936. He closed the Matigon deal which ended a major strike. In June 1940 he resisted pressure to give in to Petain, who wanted to close a seize fire with the Germans and he was strongly oppesed to the Vichy Government of Petain. He was arrested and send to Buchenwald and Dachau. |
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| 8 | Chiang Kai Shek [Edit] | Politician | | 1887 | 1975 | | China | Political leader of China | President of Taiwan. |
|  Undisputed militairy leader of the Kwo Min Tang after the death of Sun Yat Sen (1925). He became political leader after the coup of 1926. |
| 9 | Churchill, Winston [Edit] | Politician | | 30 Nov 1874 | 24 Jan 1965 | | United Kingdom | Prime minister during W.W.II. | Second civilian to get a state burial. |
|  After the victory over the Germans the English coalition cabinet couldn't keep its unity. Churchill formed a conservative cabinet but with the elections of 1945 (July) his party lost the majority. He considered his defeat as an ungrateful act from the British people. |
| 10 | Daladier, Eduard (es) [Edit] | Politician | | 1884 | 1970 | Carpentras | France | Prime Minister of France 1938-1940 | Died in Paris in 1970. |
|  Daladier, Chamberlain, Mussolini and Hitler signed the Agreement of Munich. They agreed that Germany was permitted to occupie a part of Tsjechoslawakia. After the German occupation of France he was arrested by Petain and spent the war in prison. |
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