Hello Feldgrauans
Take aside Jodl and Keitel, I recalled seeing a batch of photos posted in the web of a German general executed by US Army firing squad. I recalled it was mentioned that a US Army military tribunal found this German general to have been guilty of war crimes (shooting POWs).
Anyone knew any list of German generals executed by the US or British army?
Many thanks
German generals shot by US or British Army for war crimes?
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Re: German generals shot by US or British Army for war crimes?
I think the General you may refer to was Anton Dostler, who was indeed tried and shot for the murder of US Army POW's in Italy.
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Re: German generals shot by US or British Army for war crimes?
Wouldn't Steen's site have that information?
Now if I was just lucid enough to go find it...
Wait, here it is!!!
http://www.generals.dk/
Now if I was just lucid enough to go find it...
Wait, here it is!!!
http://www.generals.dk/
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Re: German generals shot by US or British Army for war crimes?
Here is a link to the charge of Anton Dostler http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/WCC/dostler.htm
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Re: German generals shot by US or British Army for war crimes?
Hello everyone
Thanks for the replies. Yes, General Dostler was the person I saw in the execution pictures. I was wondering why General Dostler was executed by firing squad for war crimes whereas General Jodl and Field Marshal Keitel was hanged.
Do anyone knew any execution of senior German officers (colonels and above) by the Western Allies for war crimes? Perry Biddiscombe's book The Last Nazi mentioned that a German Army colonel, Hamann was executed by the British for sabotage at Hamburg in 1947
Thanks
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Thanks for the replies. Yes, General Dostler was the person I saw in the execution pictures. I was wondering why General Dostler was executed by firing squad for war crimes whereas General Jodl and Field Marshal Keitel was hanged.
Do anyone knew any execution of senior German officers (colonels and above) by the Western Allies for war crimes? Perry Biddiscombe's book The Last Nazi mentioned that a German Army colonel, Hamann was executed by the British for sabotage at Hamburg in 1947
Thanks
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Re: German generals shot by US or British Army for war crimes?
From:
Quiet Flows the Rhine, German General Officer Casualties in World War II by French L. MacLean
The first is the fate of all the Generals:
This is the fate of the 168 who died 'in contact with the enemy"
For those (of the 168) where the EXACT mode of death is known
Quiet Flows the Rhine, German General Officer Casualties in World War II by French L. MacLean
The first is the fate of all the Generals:
This is the fate of the 168 who died 'in contact with the enemy"
For those (of the 168) where the EXACT mode of death is known
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Re: German generals shot by US or British Army for war crimes?
Hi Michael
Thanks for posting the info from Maclean's. I assumed that the number of 33 German generals executed by Allies after WW2, the majority of them were by the Russians. Paul Aldair's book Hitler's Greatest Defeat: Collapse of Army Group Centre mentioned that several German generals from Army Group Centre who were captured during Operation Bagration were executed after the war by the Russians for war crimes.
Does the info from Maclean on the executed German generals by the Allies include Eastern/Cossack/Caucasian/foreign generals serving in Wehrmacht such as Generals Vlassov, S. Bunyachenko, Generalmajor Vardan Sarkissian, Sultan Kirach Gley etc?
Apart from Anton Dostler, Alfred Jodl, Wilhelm Keitel, do you know any German generals executed by the Western Allies for war crimes?
I know few names, General Bruno Bauer and Friedrich-Wilhelm Muller who were executed by the Greeks and General Alexander Loehr who were executed by the Titoists
Panzermahn
Thanks for posting the info from Maclean's. I assumed that the number of 33 German generals executed by Allies after WW2, the majority of them were by the Russians. Paul Aldair's book Hitler's Greatest Defeat: Collapse of Army Group Centre mentioned that several German generals from Army Group Centre who were captured during Operation Bagration were executed after the war by the Russians for war crimes.
Does the info from Maclean on the executed German generals by the Allies include Eastern/Cossack/Caucasian/foreign generals serving in Wehrmacht such as Generals Vlassov, S. Bunyachenko, Generalmajor Vardan Sarkissian, Sultan Kirach Gley etc?
Apart from Anton Dostler, Alfred Jodl, Wilhelm Keitel, do you know any German generals executed by the Western Allies for war crimes?
I know few names, General Bruno Bauer and Friedrich-Wilhelm Muller who were executed by the Greeks and General Alexander Loehr who were executed by the Titoists
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