Editing 1945 (section)

===May===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1968-101-20A, Joseph Goebbels.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Joseph Goebbels]]]]
[[File:Prince Waldemar Wilhelm Ludwig Friedrich of, Germany.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1889–1945)|Prince Waldemar of Prussia]]]]
[[File:Prince Kanin Kotohito with handlebar moustaches (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Prince Kan'in Kotohito]]]]
* [[May 1]]
** [[Joseph Goebbels]], [[Chancellor of Germany]] for 1 day and [[Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda|Reich Minister of Propaganda]] (suicide) (b. [[1897]])
** [[Magda Goebbels]], wife of Joseph Goebbels (suicide) (b. [[1901]])
* [[May 2]]
** [[Martin Bormann]], Nazi Party leader and private secretary to Adolf Hitler (presumed suicide) (b. [[1900]])
** [[Wilhelm Burgdorf]], German general (suicide) (b. [[1895]])
** [[Hans Krebs (Wehrmacht general)|Hans Krebs]], German general (suicide) (b. [[1898]])
** [[Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1889–1945)|Prince Waldemar of Prussia]] (haemophilia) (b. [[1889]])
* [[May 3]] – [[Mario Blasich]], Italian physician, politician (b. [[1878]])
* [[May 4]] – [[Fedor von Bock]], German field marshal (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{Cite book  |last=Evans  |first=Richard J.  |title=The Third Reich at War: 1939–1945  |year=2008  |publisher=Allen Lane  |location=London  |isbn=978-0-7139-9742-2|page=750}}</ref>
* [[May 6]] – [[Xhem Hasa]], Albanian nationalist (b. [[1908]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Vladimir Boyarsky]], Soviet army officer (b. [[1901]])
* [[May 8]]
** [[Francis Bruguière]], American photographer (b. [[1875]])
** [[Julius Hirsch]], German footballer (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. [[1892]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/01/25/imperishable-story-julius-hirsch-great-goalscorer-murdered-auschwitz/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/01/25/imperishable-story-julius-hirsch-great-goalscorer-murdered-auschwitz/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The imperishable story of Julius Hirsch: the great goalscorer murdered at Auschwitz who adorns Stamford Bridge mural|first=Sam|last=Wallace|date=January 25, 2020|newspaper=The Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
** [[Wilhelm Rediess]], [[SS and Police Leader]] of Nazi-occupied Norway (suicide) (b. [[1900]])
** [[Bernhard Rust]], education minister of [[Nazi Germany]] (presumed suicide) (b. [[1883]])
** [[Josef Terboven]], ''[[Reichskommissar]]'' of Nazi-occupied Norway (suicide) (b. [[1898]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Gustav Becking]], German musicologist (b. [[1894]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Konrad Henlein]], Sudeten German Nazi leader (suicide) (b. [[1898]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Kiyoshi Ogawa]], Japanese [[kamikaze]] pilot (b. [[1922]])
* [[May 14]]
** [[Joseph Barthélemy]], French jurist, politician and journalist (b. [[1874]])
** [[Heber J. Grant]], 7th President of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. [[1856]])
* [[May 15]] 
** [[Kenneth J. Alford]], British soldier and composer (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.alfordassociation.org/BIOS/bio_Kenneth%20J.%20Alford.htm|title=AAFA Bio - Kenneth J. Alford}}</ref>
** [[Charles Williams (British writer)|Charles Williams]], British author (b. [[1886]])
* [[May 16]] – [[Kaju Sugiura]], Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. [[1896]])
* [[May 18]] – [[William Joseph Simmons]], American founder of the second [[Ku Klux Klan]] (b. [[1880]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Philipp Bouhler]], German Nazi leader and general (suicide) (b. [[1899]])
* [[May 21]] – [[Prince Kan'in Kotohito]], Japanese prince, member of the [[Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office]] (b. [[1865]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Heinrich Himmler]], German politician, [[Reichsführer-SS]] (suicide) (b. [[1900]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Robert Ritter von Greim]], German field marshal (suicide) (b. [[1892]])
* [[May 25]] 
** [[Rafael Estrella Ureña]], Dominican lawyer and politician, acting [[President of the Dominican Republic]] (b. [[1889]])
** [[Ishii Kikujirō]], Japanese diplomat and politician (killed in bombing raid) (b. [[1866]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ishii-Kikujiro|title=Ishii Kikujiro &#124; Biography & Facts &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=March 15, 2024 }}</ref>
* [[May 31]]
** [[Odilo Globocnik]], Austrian Nazi leader (suicide)  (b. [[1904]])
** [[Curt von Gottberg]], German SS general (suicide) (b. [[1896]])