World War II Axis Leaders

                    World War II Axis Leaders

Axis Leaders

Benito Mussolini: Mussolini was the fascist dictator of Italy during World War II. He seized power in 1922 and in 1943 because his army was being defeated he lost favor and was arrested. During his dictatorship he called himself il Duce, which means "The Leader".

Adolf Hitler: Hitler was the fascist dictator of Germany During the Second World War. He came to power in the 1933. He is well known for his bitterness toward Jews and Christains. He was known to the German people as Der Fuhrer. He killed himself on April 30, 1945.

Hideki Tojo: Tojo was the fascist Prime Minister of Japan during World War II. Tojo, unlike most dictators or Prime Ministers came to power in 1941. He was the 40th Prime Minister of Japan. He only served a short 3 and a half years. In 1948 Tojo was hung for war crimes after the war.

Axis Captains of the War

Pietro Badoglio: Headed Italy's armed forces, 1925-1940; led Italian government after fall of Mussolini.

Shigeyoshi Inouye: Vice Admiral; cammanded Japan’s Fourth Fleet, the “South Seas Force”; led Japenese offensive against New Guinea.

Wilhelm Keitel: Member of the General Staff in Worl War I; chief of staff of German military high cammand, 1942-1944.

Gunther H. Von Kluge: field marshall; cammanded in Poland, France, Russia; part of 1944 plot to kill Hitler; commited suicide.

Walther Model: Made field marshall in 1944; commander in chief in West, 1944; commited suicide in 1945.

Jisaburo Ozawa: Vice admiral; commanded Japan’s combined fleet in 1945; defeated in battle of Leyte Gulf.

Erich Raeder: Grand Admiral of German Navy, 1928-1943;resigned in 1943; sentenced to life in prison after the war.

Takeo Takagi: Rear admiral; won battle of Java Sea; commanded in Battle of Coral Sea; killed in Saipan.

Tomoyuki Yamashita: General; captured in Singapore in 1941; commanded in Philippines 1943-1945; executed for war crimes.