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| famous German general in WW2 who fought mostly in the Africa Corps; nicknamed the Desert Fox; was convinced by Hitler to kill himself because he didn't stop the assassination attempt on Hitler |
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| Post-impressionist Swiss sculpter |
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| Foreign minister under Stalin in WW2 |
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| Directed silent films in Soviet Union; propaganda film called Potemkin |
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| Nazi party propaganda minister who kills himself after Hitler does at the end of WW2 |
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| German actress who started in propaganda films but couldn't work after WW2 because she was so close to Hitler and Goebbles |
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| Soviet poet and novelist who was allowed to write critical poems about the massacres in Kiev |
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| British rock and roll band who took American music and made it the Brit way |
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| German who lived in Norway after fighting against Franco in Spain then returned to Germany post WW2; Mayor of Berlin turned Chancellor of W. Germany; Ostpolitik |
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| conductor who worked for the Berlin Philharmonic; possible Nazi supporter |
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| Spanish general in change of Fascist movement in Spanish civil war and allied with Nazi; dictator until 1975 |
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| Leader of Soviet Union before its collapse; put into effect perestroika and glasnost |
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| first female leader of GB nicknamed the "Iron Lady" |
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| German director and producer |
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| monetary standard in Europe (except Switzerland and UK) |
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| Marxist German poet and playwright who left Germany because of Nazis to US but left there because of the Red Scare |
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| First president of Czech Republic |
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| King of Spain following the death of Franco; hardcore democrat |
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| Serbian leader who used nationalism to start wars and ethnically cleanse in his country during the 1960's; tried as a war criminal |
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| first wife of Prince Charles of Wales who died in a car crash |
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| Russian radical composer, pianist, and conductor; left Russia and went to NYC |
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| Polish pope chosen in 1968; one of the few non-Italian popes |
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| Spanish/Catalan surrealist painter who did the melting clock thing |
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1. Royal Air Force (protected GB against German invasion)
2. Red Army Faction - 1970's German terrorist group |
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| criminal organization that could not be subdued by anyone even though Mussolini tried; centered in Naples and Cicely |
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| Irish Republican Army - Northern Ireland Catholics - fought GB to be a free state then entered a bloody civil war |
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| Black actress who helped smuggles papers past the German army by using invisible ink |
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| German rocket engineer who turned himself over to the US at the end of WW2 and then helped the US during the space race; created the V-2 |
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| Swiss artist who makes large scale replicas of everyday objects (i.e. the ripped notebook outside the Lied Building in Lincoln) |
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| two environmental artist who wrap things and call it art |
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| ex KGB guy turned current Prime Minister of Russia |
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| Conservative current chancellor of Germany; first female leader and was educated in E. Germany |
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| French President from '95 to '07 |
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| Sleazy current Prime Minister of Italy |
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Chancellor of W Germany;
then united Germany |
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