# Other than Hitler, name a figure associated with WWII **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 11, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637 "2016-07-11T07:54:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/1 "2016-07-11T07:54:53Z")
Sister thread to the one on WWI which recently got bumped. Obviously 99% of people will immediately name Hitler as a person associated with WWII, so Adolf’s off the table. What’s the next name that comes to mind? I thought of Zhukov just because I’ve been reading a lot about the Eastern Front (or Great Patriotic War, tovarish), what’s the name that springs to mind for you? ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/2 "2016-07-11T08:22:19Z")
Winston Churchill. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/3 "2016-07-11T08:39:14Z")
Mussolini. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/4 "2016-07-11T08:44:51Z")
Patton Montgomery Eisenhower Churchill Lord Mountbatten ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/5 "2016-07-11T09:12:35Z")
Churchill, Stalin, FDR, Hirohito, Mussolini, Pétain, MacArthur, Goering, Goebbels. For some reason Yamamoto makes the cut as well. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/6 "2016-07-11T09:37:51Z")
From an Australian perspectlve, John Curtin. ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/7 "2016-07-11T10:44:29Z")
Raoul Wallenberg ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/8 "2016-07-11T10:53:29Z")
Time for the infamous tinfoil hat theory regarding the WWII leaders’ names: **C** hurchill **H** itler **R** oosevelt **I** l Duce **S** talin **T** ojo Spooky, no? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/9 "2016-07-11T11:56:36Z")
Himmler had something similar. ---
**Author:** ![Chihuahua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@Chihuahua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chihuahua)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/10 "2016-07-11T12:00:34Z")
The very first name that came to mind was Yamamoto. ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/11 "2016-07-11T12:07:44Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Time for the infamous tinfoil hat theory regarding the WWII leaders’ names: > > **C** hurchill > **H** itler > **R** oosevelt > **I** l Duce > **S** talin > **T** ojo > > Spooky, no? :rolleyes: That is spooky… **S** talin **H** itler **I** l Duce **T** ojo **E** isenhower ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/12 "2016-07-11T12:37:44Z")
Quick off the top of my head… Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, FDR, Charles deGaul, Gen. Patton, Gen. Tojo, Emperor Hirohito, Vidkun Quisling, Irwin Rommel, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler… ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/13 "2016-07-11T12:41:27Z")
Churchill (I’m English.) “We shall fight on the beaches…” ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/14 "2016-07-11T12:41:37Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Mussolini. You said “a” figure, and he was the first one that popped in my head, so I’m going with this. Also, thanks for posting before me. I don’t know how to spell this and I’m lazy and didn’t want to look it up ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/15 "2016-07-11T12:52:49Z")
Stalin ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/16 "2016-07-11T13:09:58Z")
Churchill Roosevelt Stalin Tojo My father (OK, you’ve never heard of him, but he was a big influence on me.) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/17 "2016-07-11T13:10:45Z")
Neville Chamberlain ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/18 "2016-07-11T13:19:08Z")
I searched my brain hole and came up with FDR. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/19 "2016-07-11T15:42:14Z")
No love for the generals/admirals outside of the high commanders/flamboyant ones? There’s: Omar Bradley Ernest King Chester Nimitz William Halsey George Marshall Hap Arnold Marc Mitscher Raymond Spruance Husband Kimmel Erwin Rommel Gerd von Rundstedt Friedrich Paulus Andrei Yeremenko Vasily Chuikov Konstantin Rokossovsky Bertram Ramsay William Slim Red Mike Edson Holland Smith Alexander Vandegrift Carl Spaatz Ira Eaker Curtis LeMay ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637/20 "2016-07-11T15:49:25Z")
Churchill was the one I instantly thought of. I’m American, I wonder if the responses differ by country. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hitler-name-a-figure-associated-with-wwii/759637.md?page=2)