World War II[r]: (1931–1945) global war killing 53 million people, with the "Allies" (UK, US, Soviet Union) eventually halting aggressive expansion by the "Axis" (Nazi Germany and Japan). [e]
Reinhard Gehlen[r]: World War II German Army officer, probably not a Nazi, final chief of intelligence against the Russians. Ran intelligence operations for U.S. until transfer to postwar German service. [e]
Franz Six[r]: SS-Brigadefuehrer; member of the SD; Commanding Officer of Vorkommando Moscow of Einsatzgruppe B; scheduled to command Einsatzgruppen if UK was invaded; briefly member of Gehlen Organization before German trial and imprisonment in 1951 [e]