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Hannie Schaft
Hannie Schaft (Jannetje Johanna Schaft, 1920-1945), Dutch resistance fighter and law student, one of few armed female resisters with Truus and Freddie Oversteegen; known as the girl with the red hair; executed near Overveen 17 April 1945, three weeks before liberation.
Hanns Scharff
Hanns Joachim Scharff (1907–1992), Luftwaffe master interrogator at Auswertestelle West who questioned over 500 Allied pilots without coercion; his friendly, knowledge-illusion methods became the experimentally studied Scharff technique.
Hans Kammler
Hans Kammler (1901, Stettin; died after May 1945, date disputed) was an SS-Obergruppenführer and engineer who built Auschwitz-Birkenau's crematoria, directed the underground Mittelwerk V-2 complex with concentration-camp labor, and vanished in 1945 amid evidence of US custody.
Hans Krebs (Wehrmacht general)
Hans Krebs (Hans Otto Wilhelm Eugen Krebs, 1898-1945), German General of Infantry, last acting Chief of Staff of the OKH. Eastern Front staff chief, former Moscow military attache; negotiated with Chuikov on 1 May 1945, then died by suicide in Berlin.
Hans Kundt
Hans Kundt (1869–1939) was a German general who spent 25 years in Bolivian service and commanded the army in the Chaco War until the surrender of 7,500 soldiers at Campo Vía ended his command.
Hans Oster
Hans Paul Oster (9 August 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a Wehrmacht general, chief of staff in the Abwehr under Canaris, organizer of the 1938 coup plot, informer of the Dutch attaché in 1940, and executed at Flossenbürg.
Hans Speidel
Hans Speidel (1897–1984), German general: Rommel's chief of staff in Normandy, 20 July 1944 resistance participant, Bundeswehr founding figure, and first German NATO LANDCENT commander 1957–1963.
Hans von Seeckt
Hans von Seeckt (1866–1936), German colonel general, Mackensen's chief of staff in WWI, then Chef der Heeresleitung 1920–1926 who built the Versailles-limited 100,000-man Reichswehr, held executive power in 1923, and later advised Chiang Kai-shek in China.
Hardev Singh Kler (ਹਰਦੇਵ ਸਿੰਘ ਕਲੇਰ)
Hardev Singh Kler (ਹਰਦੇਵ ਸਿੰਘ ਕਲੇਰ), also known as Harry Kler, was an Indian Army major general of the Corps of Signals who commanded 95 Mountain Brigade in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, took Jamalpur, and won the Maha Vir Chakra; distinct from the Nirankari Baba and hockey official of the same name.
Hari Singh Nalwa
Hari Singh Nalwa (1791–1837), Sikh general and Commander-in-Chief on the North West Frontier under Maharaja Ranjit Singh; governed Kashmir, Hazara, and Peshawar, founded Haripur, built Fort Jamrud at the Khyber, and died at the Battle of Jamrud, 30 April 1837.
Harish Kumar Gupta
Harish Kumar Gupta (born 1965) is a 1992-batch IPS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre who served as Andhra Pradesh DGP (Head of Police Force) in 2024 and from 31 January 2025, and is Director General, Vigilance & Enforcement.
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891–1969), British field marshal; commanded the Dunkirk rearguard, North Africa, Sicily and Italy, was last British Governor General of Canada 1946–52 and Minister of Defence 1952–54.
Harold Bray (sailor)
Harold John Bray, Jr. (born June 15, 1927) is an American retired sailor and police officer who is the last living survivor of the USS Indianapolis sinking.
Harold James Nicholson
Harold James Nicholson, born 1950, former CIA case officer and highest-ranking CIA officer convicted of spying; sold secrets to Russia's SVR from 1994, sentenced 1997, spied again from prison with son Nathaniel.
Harry B. Harris Jr.
Harry B. Harris Jr., retired U.S. Navy four-star admiral and diplomat; first Asian-American four-star in the Navy, 24th commander of U.S. Pacific Command (2015–2018), and U.S. ambassador to South Korea (2018–2021).
Harry Herbert Crosby
Harry Herbert Crosby (1919-2010) was lead navigator of the 100th Bomb Group, the "Bloody 100th", Eighth Air Force; author of the 1993 memoir A Wing and a Prayer and BU professor.
Hasso von Manteuffel
Hasso Eccard von Manteuffel (1897–1978), German panzer general who commanded the 7th Panzer Division, Großdeutschland, and the 5th Panzer Army in the Ardennes; later FDP Bundestag deputy credited with coining "Bundeswehr".
Hattori Hanzō (服部半蔵)
Hattori Hanzō (服部半蔵), chiefly Hattori Masanari (1542–1596), was a Tokugawa samurai commander, not a ninja, famed for the 1582 Iga-goe escape and for leading the Iga-mono; the ninja legend is largely postwar fiction.
Hayreddin Barbarossa
Hayreddin Barbarossa (Khayr al-Din, 1478–1546), Ottoman corsair from Mytilene and Grand Admiral under Süleyman I, made Algiers an Ottoman regency in 1519, took Tunis in 1534, and faced Andrea Doria at Preveza in 1538.
Hazi Aslanov
Hazi Aslanov (Həzi Aslanov; 1910–1945) was a Soviet tank general from Azerbaijan who fought at Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk and was twice made a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Hector Munro, 8th Laird of Novar
Hector Munro, 8th Laird of Novar (1726-1805), Scottish general and MP who commanded the East India Company army at the Battle of Buxar in 1764, later led the Madras army, and spent about £120,000 improving the Novar estate in Ross-shire.
Hedwig Potthast
Hedwig Potthast (born 1912) was Heinrich Himmler's private secretary and, from Christmas 1938, his secret mistress, mother of Helge (1942) and Nanette Dorothea (1944); her identity stayed hidden until her grandson's 2024 discovery.
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945), Reichsführer-SS from 1929 and Chief of German Police, oversaw the SS, Gestapo, concentration camps, and the Final Solution; distinct from Heydrich, his deputy.
Heinrich Severloh
Heinrich 'Hein' Severloh (1923–2006), German Gefreiter of the 352nd Infantry Division who fired an MG 42 at WN 62 on Omaha Beach on D-Day and was called the 'Beast of Omaha'; his casualty claims are disputed by historians.
Heinz Guderian
Heinz Guderian (1888–1954), German Generaloberst, creator of the panzer arm and author of Achtung Panzer! (1937); led the 1940 Ardennes thrust and Panzer Group 2 in Barbarossa; later Chief of the General Staff; his memoir Panzer Leader fueled the clean Wehrmacht myth.
Heinz Hitler
Heinz Hitler (Heinrich Hitler, 1920-1942), nephew of Adolf Hitler via half-brother Alois Jr. and Hedwig Heidemann, was a Wehrmacht officer captured on the Eastern Front who died in Moscow's Butyrka prison in 1942.
Heinz Linge
Heinz Linge (1913-1980) was Adolf Hitler's SS valet and head of household staff from 1935 to 1945, burned Hitler's body, was interrogated for the NKVD dossier The Hitler Book, released 1955, memoirist.
Helen Gandy
Helen W. Gandy, J. Edgar Hoover's personal and executive secretary at the FBI from the early 1920s until his 1972 death; sole keeper, with Hoover, of the Official and Confidential files, and destroyer of about 30 file drawers of his personal papers after his death.
Helmut Harff
Helmut Harff (1939–2018) was a German Bundeswehr brigadier general, nicknamed "Habicht", who led the first German UNOSOM II contingent in Somalia (1993) and German KFOR forces entering Kosovo (1999), later heading the BDI defense committee.
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800–1891) was a Prussian field marshal who led the general staff for 31 years and directed the wars against Denmark, Austria, and France.