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Latest revision as of 13:34, 8 January 2011
- See also changes related to Commissar Order, or pages that link to Commissar Order or to this page or whose text contains "Commissar Order".
Parent topics
- War crime [r]: Acts that violate the laws of war as they applied in the time and place of commission, or that were deemed violations of law, possibly ex post facto, as determined by a competent tribunal [e]
- Political officer [r]: Principally a Soviet term, also called commissar, a Party official attached to a military unit with authority to enforce political doctrine, sometimes overriding military orders [e]
- Adolf Hitler [r]: (1889–1945) Politician in Germany; became 1921 Nazi Party leader, 1933 Reichskanzler (Chancellor), then 1934 as der Führer dictator before and during World War II. [e]
- Oberkommando der Wehrmacht [r]: (OKW) In Nazi Germany, the High Command of the Armed Forces, or the military staff office in direct support of Adolf Hitler [e]
- Operation Barbarossa [r]: The German invasion of the Soviet Union, beginning on June 22, 1941 [e]
Subtopics
Accusations of violation
- Trial of the Major War Criminals [r]: Conducted by the four major Allied powers in Europe, this proceeding tried the designated Major War Criminals of Nazi Germany, as well as determining whether certain Nazi organizations were to be considered as criminal conspiracies to which membership was a crime [e]
- Wilhelm Keitel [r]: Field Marshal of Nazi Germany who headed the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht; executed for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Alfred Jodl [r]: Colonel-general in the Army of Nazi Germany; head of operations branch of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the overall command staff; executed for war crimes by sentence of the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- High Command Case (NMT) [r]: A trial of senior professional military officers of Nazi Germany, for which some were convicted of war crimes, crimes against humanity, or both; none were judged at the policy-making level to have plotted aggressive war [e]
- Hugo Sperrle [r]: A German air force (Luftwaffe) officer who rose to Generalfeldmarschall and commander of all air forces in Western Europe, he had commanded the Condor Legion in the Spanish Civil War, and then forces in the Battle of France and Battle of Britain, but was relieved for not stopping Allied forces after the Battle of Normandy. He was cleared of war crimes charges in the High Command Case (NMT) [e]
- Georg von Kuechler [r]: German Army Generalfeldmaschall commanding an army, then an army group, in Operation Barbarossa; defendant in High Command Case (NMT) sentenced to 20 years [e]
- Johannes Blaskowitz [r]: German Generaloberst who commanded forces moving into the Sudetenland and Austria, planned and commanded in Poland where he protested SS misconduct, relieved and later on the Western Front, committed suicide while facing minor charges in the High Command Case (NMT) [e]
- Hermann Hoth [r]: German Army Generaloberst; tank and mobile warfare specialist who commanded 4th Panzer Army; convicted by High Command Case (NMT) [e]
- Hans Reinhardt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hans von Salmuth [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Karl Hollidt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Otto Schniewind [r]: Second World War German admiral who headed the Naval Staff; acquitted of war crimes in the High Command Case (NMT) [e]
- Karl von Roques [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hermann Reinecke [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Walter Warlimont [r]: (1894-1976) General officer in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht operations staff, assisting Alfred Jodl; sentenced to life in the High Command Case (NMT), released 1957 [e]
- Otto Woehler [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rudolf Lehmann [r]: German lawyer and jurist, who became Ministerial Director and Chief of Legal Department (Wehrmachtrechtswesen) (WR) in the OKW, with staff general officer rank [e]