Alfred Jodl Biography
(Chief of the Operations Staff of the German Armed Forces High Command (1939 - 1945))
Birthday: May 10, 1890 (Taurus)
Born In: Würzburg, Germany
Alfred Jodl was a top German military commander during the World War II and one of the leading spearheads of the Nazi movement. He was a war criminal, who was convicted and sentenced to death for conspiring, with Hitler, to start a war which took millions of lives. It was alleged that his actions resulted in death of millions of innocent jews. After the German forces lost to the Allied forces in the World War II, he was arrested along with his other colleagues. He was held responsible for murdering innocent people, when he issued an order of Hitler's that German military units in Russia could act with heedless brutality. He was convicted of making a plan of action regarding the destruction of the United States and Britain and also for many other accusations which were supported by documented evidence. He pleaded ‘not guilty’ and claimed to have known nothing of the death camps at which nearly six million European Jews met their death but the court sentenced him to death for his brutality and he was hanged.