His wife Luise attached herself to her husband's defense team. The French judge, Henri Donnedieu de Vabres didn't agree in the case of Jodl. Although he denied his role in the crime, the (disunited) court sustained his complicity based on the given evidence. Presented as evidence was his signature on an order that transferred Danish citizens, including Jews and other civilians, to concentration camps.
Alfred jodl trial#
Additional charges at his trial included unlawful deportation and abetting execution.
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. The body of Alfred Jodl after being hanged, 16 October 1946Ĭenotaph in the family grave in the Fraueninsel Cemetery, in Chiemsee 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.Ĭolonel General Jodl signs the instruments of unconditional surrender in Reims on 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. 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). 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." 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. 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". World War IIĪlfred Jodl (between Major Wilhelm Oxenius to the left and Generaladmiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg to the right) signing the German Instrument of Surrender at Reims, France 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 1914–1916, twice being wounded.
Īfter schooling, Jodl joined the army as an artillery officer.
The philosopher and psychologist Friedrich Jodl at the University of Vienna was his uncle. General Ferdinand Jodl was his younger brother. He was educated at Cadet School in Munich, from which he graduated in 1910. Alfred 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.
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