Alfred Jodl

Alfred Jodl (born the May 10th 1890 and deceased the October 16th 1946), German officer affected with the high German staff (OKW) at the time of the Second world war.

Officer of Artillery during the First World War, it was named Minister for National defense in 1935, and general-in-chief of the office of the operations of the supreme command of the Wehrmacht. Starting from 1938, he was the assistant of Wilhelm Keitel during all the Second world war.

In 1939, he becomes chief of staff of the operations of war of OKW (supreme command of the armed forces), and, with Wilhelm Keitel, was one of the key figures of the military command. Qualified staff officer, faithful to Hitler, it directed all the military campaigns of the Second world war, except for the beginning of the Campagne of Russia. For this reason, it signed orders of execution of prisoners and was condemned to died and hung at the time of the Procès of Nuremberg, on October 16th 1946, for concerted plan or plot, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was discharged on a purely posthumous basis by a court of Munich of all the loads in 1953.

Member of the Government Flensburg of Karl Dönitz, it signed with Rheims - where Eisenhower had its general headquarter - on May 7th, 1945, with 2:41, the rendering of the German armed forces.

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the lawsuit of Alfred Jodl in Nuremberg - TRIAL WATCH

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