Jodl married twice: in 1913 and (after becoming a widower) in 1944. After the defeat of the German Empire in 1918, he continued his career as a professional soldier with the much-reduced German Army ( Reichswehr). In 1918, he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class for gallantry in action. In 1917, he served briefly on the Eastern Front before returning to the West as a staff officer. įrom 1914 to 1916, he served with a battery unit on the Western Front, being awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class for gallantry in November 1914, and for being wounded in action. Jodl was raised Roman Catholic but rejected the faith later in life. He was the nephew of philosopher and psychologist Friedrich Jodl at the University of Vienna. Ferdinand Jodl, who would also become an army general, was his younger brother. Found guilty on all charges, he was sentenced to death and executed in Nuremberg in 1946.Įarly life and career Jodl (second from right) as a captain of the Reichswehr, 1926Īlfred Jodl was educated at a military cadet school in Munich, from which he graduated in 1910. The principal charges against him related to his signature of the criminal Commando and Commissar Orders. Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl ( German: ⓘ – 16 October 1946) was a German Generaloberst who served as the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht – the German Armed Forces High Command – throughout World War II, and a war criminal executed for crimes against humanity.Īfter the war, Jodl was indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression, war crimes, and crimes against humanity at the Allied-organized Nuremberg trials.
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