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Parent topics

• Nuremberg Military Tribunals [r]: A set of twelve trials of officials of Nazi Germany, conducted by the United States in its zone of occupation of Germany, following the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) ^[e]

Subtopics

Defendants

• Wilhelm von Leeb [r]: A Field Marshal of the regular army of Nazi Germany, although himself quite openly anti-Nazi. He did receive a three-year sentence for crimes against civilians in the invasion of the Soviet Union. ^[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]

Issues

• Crimes against peace [r]: Also called waging aggressive war, a definition of a war crime derived from the Kellogg-Briand Pact, involving planning and initiating violence not in self-defense ^[e]
• Crimes against humanity [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Barbarossa Jurisdiction Order [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Commissar Order [r]: A decree, signed by Adolf Hitler on June 6, 1941, specifying the treatment, often summary execution, of Soviet political officers captured by German forces in the Soviet Union ^[e]
  • Commando Order [r]: An order from Adolf Hitler, later the basis for a number of war crimes prosecution, which condemned uniformed special operations personnel operating behind enemy lines ^[e]
  • Night and Fog Decree [r]: A 1941 Nazi order calling for the extrajudicial detention, either followed by summary capital punishment or secret imprisonent in Germany, of civilians judged to be resisting German military occupation ^[e]

Other related topics

• Hostages Case (NMT) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Einsatzgruppen Case (NMT) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Night and Fog Decree [r]: A 1941 Nazi order calling for the extrajudicial detention, either followed by summary capital punishment or secret imprisonent in Germany, of civilians judged to be resisting German military occupation ^[e]