Typical among them was the fiercely anti-Semitic Curt Prufer, who joined the Foreign Office in 1907, served as the German Ambassador to Brazil in 1938 – 1942, and then worked closely with the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husayni in recruiting Balkan Muslims to kill Jews in 1943.

* Eugen Ott: German Ambassador to Japan ( 1938 – 1942 )

* Cecil von Renthe-Fink: German Ambassador to Denmark ( 1940 – 1942 )

* Heinrich Georg Stahmer: German Ambassador to Japan ( 1942 – 1945 )

In 1942, U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William Christian Bullitt, Jr .' s thesis prophesied the " flow of the Red amoeba into Europe ".

Hu Shih, literary scholar and then Ambassador to the United States, wrote in the Introduction to Waley's 1942 abridgement, Monkey, that the people of Wu's hometown, attributed it early on to Wu, and kept records to that effect as early as 1625 ; thus, claimed Ambassador Hu, Journey to the West was one of the earliest Chinese novels for which the authorship is officially documented.

It was created in 1942 for the prominent Conservative politician and former Ambassador to the United States, Sir Auckland Geddes.

In 1942, he was appointed Ambassador to Moscow, and four years later signed the Paris Treaty.

In a 1942 memorandum describing his conversations with British Ambassador Lord Halifax, Welles stated that he would have preferred to characterize the plebiscites supporting the annexations as " faked ".

He had served with General Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific, was Ambassador to the United States, and became the first non-American to win the Pulitzer Prize in Correspondence in 1942.

Recto served as Commissioner of Education ( 1942 – 43 ), Minister of Foreign Affairs ( 1943 – 44 ), and Cultural Envoy with the rank of Ambassador on a cultural mission to Europe and Latin America ( 1960 ).

* The Ambassador ( horse ), winner of the 1942 Hambletonian Stakes

In January 1942 Phibun declared war on Britain and the United States, but the Thai Ambassador to the US, Seni Pramoj, refused to deliver it to the State Department.

Ambassador Grew was interned for several months by the Japanese government, but he was released to return to the United States on June 25, 1942.

Jacob Gould Schurman ( May 22, 1854 – August 12, 1942 ) was a Canadian-born educator and diplomat, who served as President of Cornell University and United States Ambassador to Germany.

From 1942 to 1944, Dixon took leave from his judicial duties while he served as Australia ’ s Minister ( Ambassador ) to the United States, at the request of the then Prime Minister John Curtin.

Heinrich Georg Stahmer ( 3 May 1892, Hamburg, Germany – 13 June 1978, in Vaduz, Lichtenstein ), economist by training, served as an aide to German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop ( 1938 – 1940 ), special envoy to Japan ( 1940 – 1942 ) and German Ambassador to Japan ( January 1943 – May 1945 ).

In October 1941 was appointed as German Ambassador to the Chinese government under Wang Jingwei, established in Nanjing by the Japanese occupation, and remained in that position until late 1942.

As early as 1942, Monsignor Luigi Maglione contacted Ambassador Llobet, inquiring as to the " willingness of the government of the Argentine Republic to apply its immigration law generously, in order to encourage at the opportune moment European Catholic immigrants to seek the necessary land and capital in our country ".

The Gascoignes continued at Lotherton Hall until the death of Sir Alvary Gascoigne, a. k. a. Sir Alvary Douglas Frederick Trench-Gascoigne, ( 6 August 1893-18 April 1970 ), formerly a British Ambassador to Japan, 1946-1951, or rather a Political advisor to Japan, 1946-1951, British Ambassador to Russia, 1951-1953, a CMG in 1942, KCMG in 1948, GBE in 1953, whose son, Captain Douglas Wilder Trench-Gascoigne, ( 11 Nov 1917-Aug 1944 ) had predeceased him while fighting in WWII, in August 1944.

He served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1942 and 1946 and to the United States between 1946 and 1948.

* Otto Kern ( 1863 – 1942 ), German linguist

* 1870 – Otto von Friesen, Swedish runologist, linguist, and educator ( d. 1942 )

* SS-Obersturmbannführer: Karl Otto Koch ( 1939 – 1942 )

* Otto Bernhardt ( born 1942, Rendsburg ), a German politician of the CDU

Otto Frank took his family into hiding on 6 July 1942 in the upper rear rooms of the Opekta premises on the Prinsengracht.

Willfred Otto Mauck was the eighth president from 1933 to 1942.

* Otto Bernhardt ( born 1942 ), German politician

Otto Korfes ( 11 Jan 1942 as Oberst )

By April 1942, the organization had been established with Radó as group leader, and also had three subgroup leaders: Rachel Dübendörfer ( codename SISSY ), Georges Blun ( LONG ), and Otto Pünter ( PAKBO ).

This role led to several film appearances during the 1940s in such films as Lady Scarface ( 1941 ), Kings Row ( 1942 ), All Through the Night ( 1942 ), Otto Preminger's Laura ( 1944 ) with Gene Tierney, Ben Hecht's Specter of the Rose ( 1946 ), Jean Renoir's The Diary of a Chambermaid ( 1946 ), and a particularly memorable turn as Emily Brent in René Clair's And Then There Were None ( 1945 ).

With her husband Jan Gies, and the other Opekta employees, Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, and Bep Voskuijl, Miep Gies helped hide Otto and Edith Frank, their daughters Margot and Anne, Hermann and Auguste van Pels, their son Peter, and Fritz Pfeffer in several upstairs rooms in the company's office building on Amsterdam's Prinsengracht from 6 July 1942 to August 4, 1944 ..

* Einsatzgruppe D ( SS-Gruppenführer Dr. Otto Ohlendorf ) to Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and, during 1942, the north Caucasus.

* Otto Herschmann ( 1877 – 1942 ), Austrian Olympic fencing and swimming medalist

* Otto Schultze ( 31 August 1942 )

Created by Otto Binder and Marc Swayze, she first appeared in Captain Marvel Adventures # 18 ( cover-dated Dec. 1942 ).

* Die Entlassung, also known as The Dismissal, a 1942 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner about the dismissal of Otto von Bismarck

* 1942 – Damals, with Hans Stüwe, Rossano Brazzi, Karl Martell, Hilde Körber, Otto Graf

Otto Hofmann, 1942

Kid Eternity is a fictional character, a comic book superhero that premiered in Hit Comics # 25 written by Otto Binder, drawn by Sheldon Moldoff, and published by Quality Comics in December 1942.

# SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Otto Bradfisch ( June 1941 – 1 April 1942 )

# SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei Dr. Otto Ohlendorf ( June 1941 – July 1942 )

James Otto Richardson ( 18 September 1878 – 2 May 1974 ) was an admiral in the United States Navy who served from 1902 to 1942.

* Otto Denning was a Major League catcher for the Cleveland Indians ( 1942 – 43 ).