The magazine put the Nazi leader's face, crossed by a bloody X, its the cover in April 1945, after Germany was defeated by Allied Forces in World War

"World War II and Gulf War II, of course, are very different conflicts, and though some commentators have compared aspects of Saddam's tyranny to Hitler's, the two dictators belong in separate leagues of cruelty and terror," Time managing editor Jim Kelly said in the magazine.

"But like Hitler, Saddam became the target of a US-led war, and like Hitler, he had a reign that collapsed before the exact circumstances of his own downfall became known."

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