Biografie

10. Mai 1890 · Würzburg, Bayern, Deutschland

16. Oktober 1946 · Nürnberg, Bayern, Deutschland (Hinrichtung durch Erhängen)

Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl

1,76 m

He is referred to, by name, in Winston Churchill's V-E Day speech, 8 May 1945.

He was one of the Nazi defendants in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, conducted after World War II in 1945. Charged with crimes against humanity, he was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging, which was carried out in 1946.

During the Nuremberg Trials he was able to prove some of the charges against him were false, despite being refused access by the court to vital documents.

He was posthumously declared not guilty of war crimes by a West German court in 1953, although that verdict was later overturned following pressure from the United States.

Chief of the Operations Staff of the OKW [Oberkommando der Wehrmacht] / Wehrmacht High Command (1 September 1939 to 13 May 1945).

[6/30/40] The final German victory over England is now only a question of time.

[on the Saar Offensive] If we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions.