He shot himself and his new wife ingested cyanide in the Führerbunker.

Used potassium cyanide that he'd hid in a jar of skin cream. He killed himself the night before his death sentence was to be carried out.

Used potassium cyanide in Lüneberg following his capture by the British Army.

Died from sepsis after Operation Anthropoid, an assassination operation in Prague.

This Field Marshal and commander of the Afrikakorps was pressed to commit suicide after being implicated in an attempt to oust Hitler.

He and his wife killed their six children, then themselves, in Berlin.

Famous for 'following orders,' he was executed by hanging in Israel.

Died at the age of 93 in Spandau Prison, West Berlin. Official cause of death is suicide by hanging, but conspiracy theorists implicate the MI6.

Died of a stroke in Munich, in 1973, after serving as a military advisor to the West German Government.

The last surviving German Field Marshal, he died of natural causes 23 days after von Manstein's death.