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| |  | | Alfred Jodl | | | context : | Nazi Germany  | | judgement place : | IMT - Nurenberg | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Condemned to death, Jodl was executed by hanging on 16 October 1946 | | position : | Chief of Staff for war operations in the High Command of the Armed Forces |
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| | | | Alfred Jodl was arrested in May 1945.
Charged with counts 1 (common plan or conspiracy), 2 (crimes against peace), 3 (war crimes) and 4 (crimes against humanity), he pleaded not guilty.
In his defence Jodl insisted on his military status and on the absolute necessity wherever he found himself to carry out any orders received. He indicated that whenever he gave out or signed orders, memorandums or letters, he did so in Hitler’s name and very often in place of Keitel. Nevertheless he tried to point out, in his favour, that even if, as a matter of principle, he had to carry out orders received, he frequently tried to resist the more evil measures ordered notably by delaying their implementation.
The International Military Tribunal underlined that Jodl’s defence thrust lay in invoking the theory of superior orders, which was forbidden by article 8 of the Tribunal’s Statute. No mitigating circumstances were therefore retained. According to the Tribunal, the participation in such crimes as those demonstrated had never been an injunction required of any soldier and Jodl could not hide behind the “mythical” requirement of blind obedience of a soldier in order to escape his responsibility.
The Tribunal, subsequently found Alfred Jodl guilty on all four counts and condemned him to death on October 1st, 1946.
His appeal to the Control Council was rejected on 10 October 1946.
Alfred Jodl was executed by hanging on 16 October 1946. | |    | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Germany | | | date of birth : | | | 10.05.1890 | | | judgement period : | | | 20.11.1945 - 10.10.1946 | | | charges : | | | Aggression
Crimes against humanity
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 03.03.2005 |
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