Wehrmacht Heer in the context of "Alfred Jodl"

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👉 Wehrmacht Heer in the context of Alfred Jodl

Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl (German: [ˈjoːdl̩] ; born Alfred Josef Baumgärtler; 10 May 1890 – 16 October 1946) was a German Army Generaloberst (the rank was equal to a four-star full general) and convicted war criminal, who served as the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht – the German Armed Forces High Command – throughout World War II.

After the war, Jodl was indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression, war crimes, and crimes against humanity at the Allied-organized Nuremberg trials. The principal charges against him related to his signing of the criminal Commando and Commissar Orders. Found guilty on all charges, he was sentenced to death and executed in Nuremberg in 1946.

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Wehrmacht Heer in the context of Jürgen Stroop

Jürgen Stroop (born Josef Stroop, 26 September 1895 – 6 March 1952) was a German SS commander and perpetrator of the Holocaust during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and Greece from 1942-1943 (in Poland) and 1943-1944 (in Greece). He held the rank of SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei from 1942-1945 (equivalent to a Heer Generalleutnant/Lt-Gen in the Wehrmacht). He led the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 with German Troops consisted of Heer Troops including Waffen-SS and the Order Police battalions and wrote the Stroop Report, a twelve-page account of the operation annexed with many original documents and pictures. Following the defeat of Germany, Stroop was prosecuted during the Dachau Trials and convicted of murdering nine U.S. prisoners of war. After his extradition to Poland, Stroop was tried, convicted, and executed for crimes against humanity.

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