Germany:
* Adolf Hitler: Committed suicide on April 30, 1945, in his Führerbunker in Berlin.
* Heinrich Himmler: Committed suicide by biting into a cyanide capsule while in Allied custody on May 23, 1945.
* Hermann Göring: Captured by the Allies on May 9, 1945, and put on trial at Nuremberg. He committed suicide by ingesting cyanide on October 15, 1946, the night before he was scheduled to be executed.
* Joseph Goebbels: Committed suicide along with his wife and six children on May 1, 1945, in the Führerbunker.
* Joachim von Ribbentrop: Captured by the Allies and put on trial at Nuremberg. He was sentenced to death and hanged on October 16, 1946.
Italy:
* Benito Mussolini: Captured by Italian partisans on April 27, 1945, while attempting to flee to Switzerland. He was executed the next day and his body was hung upside down in a public square in Milan.
* Galeazzo Ciano: Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister. He was arrested by Mussolini's successor, Pietro Badoglio, and tried and executed on January 11, 1944.
Japan:
* Emperor Hirohito: Although his divine status as emperor was maintained, Hirohito was stripped of most of his political power by the Allies during the occupation of Japan. He remained as a symbolic figurehead until his death in 1989.
* Hideki Tojo: Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II. He was captured by the Allies and put on trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. He was found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death, and he was executed by hanging on December 23, 1948.
* Shigenori Togo: Foreign Minister of Japan during part of World War II. He was put on trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He was released in 1956 and died in 1957.
* Kuniaki Koiso: Prime Minister of Japan for a brief period in 1944-1945. He was arrested by the Allies and put on trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, but he died of natural causes in prison before the verdict was reached.