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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]
- 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]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]: Add brief definition or description
- Johannes Blaskowitz [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hermann Hoth [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]: Add brief definition or description
Other tribunals
- Barbarossa Jurisdiction Order [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Commando Order [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Night and Fog Decree [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Third Geneva Convention [r]: Add brief definition or description