The High Command Trial (officially, The United States of America vs. Wilhelm von Leeb, et al.), also known initially as Case No. 12 (the 13 Generals' Trial)...
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Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (section Relieved of command)
1943. Following the war, Leeb was tried in the High Command Trial as part of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials. He was convicted of transmitting the Barbarossa...
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to Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler High Command Trial, post-World War II war-crimes trial Norwegian High Command (Forsvarets Overkommando), Norway's...
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Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (redirect from Nazi high command)
ˈveːɐ̯ˌmaxt] ; abbreviated OKW [oː kaːˈve] Armed Forces High Command) was the supreme military command and control staff of Nazi Germany during World War II...
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von Bohlen und Halbach – Medically unfit for trial. died 1950 Robert Ley – Committed suicide before his trial began. Konstantin von Neurath – Guilty, sentenced...
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Hoth was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the High Command Trial, mainly regarding his implementation of the criminal Commissar Order...
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Hermann Reinecke (section Trial and conviction)
Reinecke was tried, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment at the High Command Trial. Reinecke joined the German Imperial Army as a cadet in March 1905...
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extermination camp Belsen Trial in Lüneburg, 1945 Command responsibility doctrine of hierarchical accountability Dachau Trials held within the walls of...
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Georg-Hans Reinhardt (section Trial and conviction)
Following the war, Reinhardt was tried in the High Command Trial, as part of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes...
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Georg von Küchler (section Trial and conviction)
occupation authorities. He was tried in the High Command Trial, as part of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials. In his testimony regarding the crimes against...
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Walter Warlimont (section Trial and conviction)
Wehrmacht (OKW), the Armed Forces High Command. Following the war, Warlimont was convicted in the High Command Trial and sentenced to life imprisonment...
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Hugo Sperrle (section Later life and trial)
a senior command again. On 1 May 1945 he was captured by the British. After the war, he was charged with war crimes at the High Command Trial but was acquitted...
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Johannes Blaskowitz (section Indictment and trial)
war, he was charged with war crimes in the High Command Trial at Nuremberg. He died by suicide during the trial on 5 February 1948. Johannes Blaskowitz was...
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doctrine and the term command responsibility were applied and used in the Leipzig war crimes trials (1921) that included the trial of Captain Emil Müller...
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April 1972) was a German general and the chief of staff of the Army High Command (OKH) in Nazi Germany from 1938 until September 1942. During World War...
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Historically, prosecutions for starvation have been rare. The judges at the High Command trial—a United States military court convened to judge German war crimes—the...
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Otto Wöhler (section Trial and conviction)
he was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the High Command trial and sentenced to 8 years. He was released in February 1951. Wöhler...
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Karl von Roques (section Trial and conviction)
After the German capitulation, Roques was arrested and tried in the High Command Trial. He was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. Moved for reasons of bad...
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Hans von Salmuth (section Trial and conviction)
invasion. Following the war, he was tried in the High Command Trial, as part of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes...
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deporting civilians in the Balkans. Other generals were tried in the High Command Trial for plotting wars of aggression, issuing criminal orders, deporting...
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Group South Rear Area Von Roques was convicted of war crimes at the High Command Trial held at Nuremburg and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. Chief...
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crimes and crimes against humanity, Bach-Zelewski did not stand trial in the Nuremberg trials, and instead appeared as a witness for the prosecution. He was...
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Generals on Trial: The Last War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg is a 2010 book by Canadian historian Valerie Hébert dealing with the High Command Trial of 1947–1948...
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German atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war (redirect from German High Command orders for the treatment of Soviet prisoners of war)
arriving at the collection points. These murders were not ordered by the high command, and some military commanders recognized their harmfulness to German...
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Army Group Centre (section Formation and Command)
Stalingrad and poor results of the Voronezh defensive operations, the army high command expected another attack on Army Group Centre in early 1943. However,...
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The Kharkov Trial was a war crimes trial held in front of a Soviet military tribunal in December 1943 in Kharkov, Soviet Union. Defendants included one...
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The Riga Trial was a war crimes trial held in front of a Soviet military tribunal between 26 January and 3 February 1946 in Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist...
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German invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II by the Wehrmacht High Command. The criminal orders went beyond established codes of conduct and led...
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staff of the Army High Command (OKH), and Georg Thomas, head of the Defence, Economy and Armament Office in the Armed Forces High Command (OKW). Several...
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Karl-Adolf Hollidt (section Trial and conviction)
was dismissed from his command and put into reserve. In 1945, Hollidt was taken prisoner by US forces. At the High Command Trial held at Nuremberg, he...
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