** Malbork, Poland, site of the Ordensburg Marienburg, formerly Marienburg in Westpreußen and during World War II, Nazi Stalag XX-B ( prisoner-of-war camp ) for enlisted men

** In a 2011 episode of Misfits, an alternate reality where Germany won the Second World War, depicts Britain and the gang under the rule of the Nazi occupation force.

** Nazi Germany invades Poland, Denmark, Norway, Benelux, and the French Third Republic from 1939 to 1941.

** The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah ( Hebrew:, Latinized ha ' shoah ; Yiddish:, Latinized churben or hurban ) is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, its allies, and collaborators.

** George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader ( d. 1967 )

** Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to Germany.

** Josef Mengele, German Nazi war criminal ( d. 1979 )

** Following the invasion of Poland, Danzig ( now Gdańsk, Poland ) is annexed to Nazi Germany.

** Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, in English, and Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe, in French, give an international radio address, stating its intentions to declare war against Nazi Germany.

** Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion.

** Karl Hass, German Nazi war criminal ( d. 2004 )

** American forces successfully defeat Nazi forces at Chambois, closing the Falaise Gap.

** The Nazi authorities kill 117 Dutch men in reprisal for the attempted murder Hanns Albin Rauter.

** The Allied Forces liberate the Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald.

** Canadian soldiers liberate the city of Amsterdam from Nazi occupation.

** V-E Day ( Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders ) commemorates the end of WWII in Europe, with the final surrender being to the Soviets in Berlin, attended by representatives of the Western Powers.

** The Norwegian Nazi leader Vidkun Quisling is shot to death by a firing squad for treason against Norway.

** Hermann Fegelein, German Nazi general ( b. 1906 )

** Adolf Hitler, German Nazi dictator ( suicide ) ( b. 1889 )

** Joseph Goebbels, German Nazi propagandist ( suicide ) ( b. 1897 )

** Bernhard Rust, Education Minister of Nazi Germany ( suicide ) ( b. 1883 )

** Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Nazi Reich Main Security Office and Reich governor of Bohemia and Moravia ( assassinated ) ( b. 1904 )

** Nazi War criminals convicted in the Nuremberg Trials are executed by hanging in a gymnasium in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice premises.

** Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader ( b. 1892 )

** Hans Frank, German Nazi Governor General of Poland ( b. 1900 )

** Zerahemnah: the war leader of the Zoramites political ( see Alma 43 )

** The General Secretary, which is the highest-ranking official within the Party and usually the Chinese de facto paramount leader.

** Head teacher, the most senior teacher and leader of a school

** Bashar al-Assad is confirmed as Syria's leader in a national referendum.

** Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to make an official visit to Israel, when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

** Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.

** Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader ( b. 1916 )

** Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah a Pakistani religious leader, of Allo Mahar Shrif.

** Vasil Biľak, former Slovak Communist leader

** Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze ( d. 1977 )

** Green Clay Smith, American temperance movement leader ( d. 1895 )

** Large protests erupt against Slobodan Milošević's regime in Belgrade ; opposition leader Vuk Drašković and his wife Danica are arrested.

** Burundian presidential election, 1993: The first multiparty elections in Burundi since the country's independence lead to the election of Melchior Ndadaye, leader of the Front for Democracy in Burundi.

** PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington D. C., after signing a peace accord.

** India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.

** Philippe Pétain, French World War I marshal, leader of Vichy France ( b. 1856 )

** Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.

** Feliksas Baltušis-Žemaitis, Lithuanian military leader ( b. 1897 )

** Shoghi Effendi, Bahá ' í leader ( b. 1897 )

** Jim Jones, American cult leader ( d. 1978 )

** Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader ( d. 2011 )

** Reverend Ian Paisley, hardline Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is jailed for 3 months for illegal assembly.

** In Sweden, Olof Palme is elected Labour Party leader, replacing Tage Erlander as prime minister on October 14.

** Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse.