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Alfred jodl
Alfred jodl













The principal charges against him related to his signature of the Commando Order and the Commissar Order, both of which ordered that certain prisoners were to be summarily executed. Jodl was accused of conspiracy to commit crimes against peace planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression war crimes and crimes against humanity. Jodl was arrested and transferred to Flensburg POW camp and later put before the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials. He was also rather vocal about his suspicions that others had not endured wounds as severe as his own, often downplaying the effects of the plot on others.Īt the end of World War II in Europe, Jodl signed the instruments of unconditional surrender on in Reims as the representative of Karl Dönitz. Because of this, Jodl was awarded the special wounded badge alongside several other leading Nazi figures. He was injured during the 20 July plot of 1944 against Hitler.

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Jodl signed the Commando Order of 28 October 1942 (in which Allied commandos, including properly uniformed soldiers as well as combatants wearing civilian clothes such as Maquis and Partisans were to be executed immediately without trial if captured behind German lines) and the Commissar Order of 6 June 1941 (in which Soviet Political Commissioners were to be shot). not those that could not, but those that did not want to walk." Jodl returned only to corroborate List's reports that the troops were at their last gasp.ĭuring the Battle of Britain Jodl was optimistic of Germany's success over Britain, on 30 June 1940 writing "The final German victory over England is now only a question of time."Īt the Nuremberg Trials, when confronted with mass shootings of Soviet POWs in 1941, Jodl explained that only prisoners shot were ". Hitler dispatched Jodl to the Caucasus to visit Field-Marshal Wilhelm List to find out why the oil fields had not been captured. Jodl disagreed with Hitler for the second time during the summer offensive of 1942. Jodl successfully thwarted Hitler's orders.

alfred jodl

During the campaign, Hitler interfered only when the German destroyer flotilla was demolished outside Narvik and wanted the German forces there to retreat into Sweden. Jodl acted as a Chief of Staff during the swift occupation of Denmark and Norway. Jodl was chosen by Hitler to be Chef des Wehrmachtsführungsstabes (Chief of Operation Staff of the newly formed OKW). In the build-up to World War II, Jodl was nominally assigned as a Artilleriekommandeur of the 44th Division from October 1938 to August 1939 during the Anschluss. On September 1939 Jodl first met Adolf Hitler. Jodl's appointment as a major in the operations branch of the Truppenamt in the Army High Command in the last days of the Weimar Republic put him under command of General Ludwig Beck, who recognised Jodl as "a man with a future". In November 1944, Jodl married Luise von Benda, a family friend. She died in Königsberg in the spring of 1944 from pneumonia, contracted after major spinal surgery. Jodl had married Irma Gräfin von Bullion, a woman five years his senior from an aristocratic Swabian family, in September 1913. After the war Jodl remained in the armed forces and joined the Versailles-limited Reichswehr. In 1917 Jodl served briefly on the Eastern Front before returning to the west as a staff officer. During World War I he served as a battery officer on the Western Front from 1914–16, twice being wounded. The philosopher and psychologist Friedrich Jodl at the University of Vienna was his uncle.Īfter schooling, Jodl joined the army as an artillery officer.

alfred jodl

General Ferdinand Jodl was his younger brother. He was educated at Cadet School in Munich, from which he graduated in 1910. Early lifeĪlfred Jodl was born out of wedlock as Alfred Josef Ferdinand Baumgärtler in Würzburg, Germany, the son of Officer Alfred Jodl and Therese Baumgärtler, assuming the surname Jodl upon his parents' marriage in 1899. After pressure from the US military, the exoneration was subsequently revoked by a Bavarian politician, though the revocation had no legal effect.

alfred jodl

Jodl was exonerated by a German denazification court in 1953. At Nuremberg he was tried, sentenced to death and hanged as a war criminal. Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl ( – 16 October 1946) was a German military commander, attaining the position of Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, or OKW) during World War II, acting as deputy to Wilhelm Keitel, and signed the unconditional surrender of Germany as a representative for German president Karl Dönitz.













Alfred jodl