Deaths
- 21 February — Adolf Brand, German writer (born 1874)
- 3 February — Roland Freisler, Nazi German judge (born 1893)
- March — Anne Frank, German-born Jewish diarist (typhus) (born 1929)
- March — Margot Frank, Anne Frank's old sister (born 1926)
- 16 March — Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (born 1874)
- 19 March — Friedrich Fromm, German Nazi official (born 1888)
- 31 March — Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)
- April — Auguste van Pels, German-Jewish housemate of Anne Frank (born 1900)
- 9 April — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (hanged by Nazis) (born 1906)
- 9 April — Wilhelm Canaris, head of the German Abwehr (hanged by Nazis) (born 1887)
- 22 April — Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (born 1867)
- 24 April — Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German Reichsphysician (S.S. and Police) in the Third Reich (born 1899)
- 30 April — Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German Nazi dictator (suicide) (born 1889)
- 30 April — Eva Braun, German wife of Adolf Hitler (suicide) (born 1912)
- 1 May — Joseph Goebbels, German Nazi propagandist (suicide) (born 1897)
- 1 May — Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels (suicide) (born 1901)
- 2 May — Martin Bormann, German Nazi leader (born 1900)
- 5 May — Peter van Pels, German-Jewish love interest of diarist Anne Frank (born 1926)
- 8 May — Ernst-Günther Baade, German general (gangrene) (born 1897)
- 8 May — Wilhelm Rediess, SS and Police Leader of Nazi-occupied Norway (suicide) (born 1900)
- 8 May — Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of Nazi-occupied Norway (suicide) (born 1898)
- 8 May — Bernhard Rust, Education Minister of Nazi Germany (suicide) (born 1883)
- 19 May — Philipp Bouhler, German Nazi leader (suicide) (born 1899)
- 20 May — Otto von Feldmann, Army officer (born 1873)
- 23 May — Heinrich Himmler, German head of the SS (suicide) (born 1900)
- 20 September — Eduard Wirths, German doctor, chief SS doctor at Auschwitz concentration camp (suicide) (born 1909)
- 25 October — Robert Ley, German Nazi politician (suicide) (born 1890)
- 8 November — August von Mackensen, German field marshal (born 1849)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)