page_title: 1945
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1945 / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Joseph Goebbels ADN-ZB/Archiv Joseph Goebbels, faschistischer Politiker, Hauptkriegsverbrecher, geb. 29.10.1897 in Rheydt, gest. (Selbstmord) 1.5.1945 in Berlin. Er war u.a. Propagandaleiter der NSDAP, Reichspropagandaminister (seit 1933) und "Reichsbevollmächtigter für den totalen Kriegseinsatz" (seit 1944). Unterstützt vom Finanzkapital, baute Goebbels das Propagandaministerium zum Lenkungsorgan der faschistischen Meinungsmanipulation aus. (Aufn.: 1942/Sandau) Abgebildete Personen: Goebbels, Joseph: Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Gauleiter Berlin, Deutschland
context_page_description: 1945 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1945th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 945th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1940s decade.
  It marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It also saw the only time nuclear weapons were used in combat.
context_section_description: May 1
  Joseph Goebbels, German Nazi propaganda minister (b. 1897)
  Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels (b. 1901)
  May 2
  Wilhelm Burgdorf, German general (suicide) (b. 1895)
  Max de Crinis, German psychiatrist (b. 1889)
  Hans Krebs, German general (suicide) (b. 1898)
  Prince Waldemar of Prussia (b. 1889)
  Martin Bormann, Nazi Party leader and private secretary to Adolf Hitler (b. 1900)
  May 3 – Mario Blasich, Italian physician, politician (b. 1878)
  May 4 – Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1880)
  May 5
  George Cary, American architect (b. 1859)
  Peter van Pels, German-Jewish love interest of diarist Anne Frank (b. 1926)
  May 6 – Xhem Hasa, Albanian nationalist (b. 1908)
  May 7 – Vladimir Boyarsky, Soviet army officer (b. 1901)
  May 8
  Ernst-Günther Baade, German general (b. 1897)
  Francis Bruguière, American photographer (b. 1875)
  Wilhelm Rediess, SS and Police Leader of Nazi-occupied Norway (b. 1900)
  Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of Nazi-occupied Norway (b. 1898)
  Bernhard Rust, education minister of Nazi Germany (b. 1883)
  May 9 – Gustav Becking, German musician (b. 1894)
  May 10 – Konrad Henlein, Sudeten German Nazi leader (b. 1898)
  May 11 – Kiyoshi Ogawa, Japanese kamikaze pilot (b. 1922)
  May 14
  Joseph Barthélemy, French jurist, politician and journalist (b. 1874)
  Heber J. Grant, 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
  May 15
  Kenneth J. Alford, British soldier, military march composer (b. 1881)
  Charles Williams, British author (b. 1886)
  May 16 – Kaju Sugiura, Japanese admiral (b. 1896)
  May 18 – William Joseph Simmons, American founder of the second Ku Klux Klan (b. 1880)
  May 19 – Philipp Bouhler, German Nazi leader and general (b. 1899)
  May 21
  Frank Cable, American naval architect (b. 1863)
  Horace B. Carpenter, American actor (b. 1875)
  Prince Kan'in Kotohito, Japanese prince, member of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office (b. 1865)
  May 23 – Heinrich Himmler, High Nazi Germany official, head of the SS (b. 1900)
  May 24 – Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (b. 1892)
  May 25 – Rafael Estrella Ureña, Dominican lawyer, politician, and acting President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1889)
  May 31 – Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1904)
  Curt von Gottberg, German SS general (b. 1896)
caption: Joseph Goebbels
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