Alfred Jodl
| Alfred Jodl | |
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| Born |
10 May 1890 Würzburg, German Empire |
| Died | 16 October 1946 (aged 56) Nuremberg, Allied-occupied Germany |
| Allegiance |
 German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany
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| Service/branch | Wehrmacht |
| Years of service | 1910–45 |
| Rank | Generaloberst |
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| Awards | Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Relations | Ferdinand Jodl (brother) |
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Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl (
listen ; 10 May 1890 – 16 October 1946) was a German general and war criminal during World War II, who served as the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht).
After the war, Jodl was indicted on the charges of conspiracy to commit crime against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression; war crimes; and crimes against humanity at the Allied-organised Nuremberg Trials. The principal charges against him related to his signature of the criminal Commando and Commissar Orders. Found guilty on all charges, he was sentenced to death and executed in 1946.
Alfred Jodl was educated at a military Cadet School in Munich, from which he graduated in 1910. Ferdinand Jodl, who also was to become a General in the Army, was his younger brother. The philosopher and psychologist Friedrich Jodl at the University of Vienna was his uncle.
From 1914 to 1916 he served with a Battery unit on the Western Front, being awarded the Iron Cross for gallantry in November 1914, and being wounded in action. In 1917 he served briefly on the Eastern Front before returning to the West as a Staff Officer. In 1918 he was again awarded the Iron Cross for gallantry in action. After the defeat of the German Empire in 1918, he continued his career as a professional soldier with the much reduced German Army in the guise of the Reichswehr. Jodl was married twice, in 1913, and then in 1944, after becoming a widower.
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