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Authors: Leon Goldensohn
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This refers to the Italian invasion and war against Ethiopia. The invasion began in October 1935, and led to Italian occupation of Addis Ababa and to complete
annexation in May 1936. The Ethiopians continued to fight on outside the capital city.
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Yosuke Matsuoka has been described as the “hawkish Japanese foreign minister.” For the context of his meetings with Hitler in April 1941 see Kershaw,
Hitler
, 2:363–64.
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Maksim Litvinov (1876–1951), commissar for foreign affairs of the USSR, was dismissed from office in May 1939 and became ambassador to the United States (1941–43).
The publisher would like to thank the Corbis Archive for furnishing the photographs and granting the rights to reprint the images of Sepp Dietrich, Hans Fritzsche, Alfred Jodl, Erich von Manstein, Erhard Milch, and Paul O. Schmidt; the Granger Collection for the image of Franz von Papen; the Bundesarchiv for the image of Rudolf Mildner; and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for the images of Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Kurt Daluege, Karl Doenitz, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Walther Funk, Hermann Goering, Franz Halder, Rudolf Hess, Rudolf Hoess, Wilhelm Keitel, Albert Kesselring, Constantin von Neurath, Otto Ohlendorf, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel, Hjalmar Schacht, Walter Schellenberg, Baldur von Schirach, Albert Speer, and Julius Streicher.