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Second World War Militaria


The Birks Foundation goes one step further than militaria items.  We throughly investigate information about the war era itself.  This gives us a view into the past about the people and actions that affected the outcome of the wars fought.

Political Leaders - Second World War:  Choose from the links Below:

Political Figures: Britain

  • Richard Acland
  • Leo Amery
  • John Anderson
  • Clement Attlee
  • Aneurin Bevan
  • William Beveridge
  • Ernest Bevin
  • Lord Beaverbrook
  • Violet Bonham Carter
  • Robert Boothby
  • Brendan Bracken
  • R.A. Butler 
  • Austen Chamberlain
  • Neville Chamberlain
  • Henry (Chips) Channon
  • Winston Churchill
  • Joseph Clynes
  • Duff Cooper
  • Stafford Cripps
  • Hugh Dalton
  • Clement Davies
  • Tom Driberg
  • Anthony Eden
  • Kingsley Wood
  • William Gallacher
  • Arthur Greenwood
  • Lord Halifax
  • Samuel Hoare
  • Leslie Hore-Belisha
  • Tom Johnston
  • George Lansbury
  • Jennie Lee
  • David Lloyd George
  • Oliver Lyttelton
  • James Maxton
  • Harold Macmillan
  • David Maxwell-Fyfe
  • Walter Monckton
  • Herbert Morrison
  • Oswald Mosley
  • J. B. Priestley
  • Archibald Ramsay
  • John Reith
  • John Simon
  • Richard Stokes
  • Ellen Wilkinson
  • Lord Woolton

Political Figures: Soviet Union

  • Lavrenti Beria
  • Nikolai Bulganin
  • Lazar Kaganovich
  • Nikita Khrushchev
  • Maxim Litvinov
  • Georgy Malenkov
  • Anastas Mikoyan
  • Vyacheslav Molotov
  • Joseph Stalin
  • Andrei Vyshinsky

Political Figures: USA

  • Dean Acheson
  • Earl Browder
  • James F. Byrnes
  • Lucius D.Clay
  • John Foster Dulles
  • James Forrestal
  • John Nance Garner
  • Harry Hopkins
  • Cordell Hull
  • Harold Ickes
  • William Knox
  • John J. McCloy
  • Archibald MacLeish
  • Henry Morgenthau
  • Philip Randolph
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Adlai Stevenson
  • Edward Stettinus
  • Henry L. Stimson
  • Norman Thomas
  • Harry S. Truman
  • Henry Wallace
  • Burton K. Wheeler
  • Wendell Willkie

Political Figures: Germany and Austria

  • Kurt Daluege
  • Sepp Dietrich
  • Herbert von Dirksen
  • Karl Doenitz
  • Engelbert Dollfuss
  • Herman Ehrhardt
  • Franz Epp
  • Joseph Goebbels
  • Hermann Goering
  • Rudolf Hess
  • Reinhard Heydrich
  • Heinrich Himmler
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Willie Munzenberg
  • Constantin von Neurath
  • Franz von Papen
  • Joachim von Ribbentrop
  • Erwin Rommel
  • Arthur Seyss-Inquart
  • Walter Schellenberg
  • Kurt von Schuschnigg
  • Ernst Thalmann
  • Ernst Udet
  • Walther Ulbricht

Political Figures: France

  • Georges Bidault
  • Leon Blum
  • Pierre Brossolette
  • Edouard Daladier
  • Jean-Francois Darlan
  • Joseph Darnand
  • Jacques Doriot
  • Jacques Duclos
  • Charles De Gaulle
  • Charles Delestraint
  • Henri Giraud
  • Edouard Herriot
  • Pierre Laval
  • Albert Lebrun
  • Jean-Pierre Lévy
  • George Mandel
  • André Marty
  • Daniel Mayer
  • François Mitterrand
  • Jean Monnet
  • Paul Reynaud
  • Robert Schuman
  • Maurice Thorez
  • Henri-Philippe Petain
  • Pierre Villon
  • Maxime Weygand

Political Leaders: Japan

  • Emperor Hirohito
  • Naruhiko Higashikuni
  • Kiichiro Hiranuma
  • Fumimaro Kondoye
  • Yosuke Matsuoka
  • Kimmochi Saionju
  • Kantaro Suzuki
  • Shigenori Togo
  • Hideki Tojo
  • Teijiro Toyoda

Political Figures: Italy

  • Giovanni Agnelli
  • Pietro Badoglio
  • Invanoe Bonomi
  • Galaezzo Ciano
  • Benedetto Croce
  • Victor Emmanuel III
  • Antonio Gramsci
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Francesco Nitti
  • Vittorio Orlando
  • Pius XI
  • Pius XII
  • Palmiro Togliatti
  • Carlo Sforza

Political Figures: Miscellaneous

  • Eduard Benes
  • Chaing Kai-Shek
  • Menachem Begin
  • Moshe Dayan
  • Georgi Dimitrov
  • Farouk I
  • Francisco Franco
  • George II of Greece
  • Klement Gottwald
  • Enver Hoxha
  • Carl Mannerheim
  • Jan Masaryk
  • Joannis Metaxas
  • Drazha Mihailovic
  • Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
  • Juan Negrin
  • Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz
  • Matyas Rakos
  • Laszlo Rajk
  • Antonio Salazar
  • Wladyslaw Sikorski
  • Josip Tito
  • Chaim Weizmann
  • Queen Wilhelmina

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