Metro: Video: Nazi General Alfred Jodl surrenders at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in Reims
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Alfred Jodl
Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl was a German military officer and convicted war criminal who served as the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht – the German Armed Forces High Command – throughout World War II.
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politics · German general and war criminal (1890–1946) · politician · military personnel · also Alfred Jodl, Alfred Baumgärtler, Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl, Jodl
Born 10 May 1890 · Died 16 October 1946 · Q57123
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2018· 1 entry
The local council ordered the cross to be removed; however, in March 2019, a Munich court upheld Jodl's relatives' right to maintain the family grave, while noting the family's willingness to remove his name
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1946· 2 entries
Died 1946-10-16.
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“My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.”
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1931· 1 entry
Chilean Order of Merit, Officer's Cross on 16 March 1934
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1918· 2 entries
Was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class for gallantry in action
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Continued his career as a professional soldier with the much-reduced German Army (Reichswehr)
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1917· 1 entry
Served briefly on the Eastern Front before returning to the West as a staff officer
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1890· 1 entry
Born 1890-05-10.
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