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3 unusual facts about High Command Trial


Oberkommando der Wehrmacht

During the subsequent High Command Trial in 1947/48, several OKW members were charged with war crimes, especially for the Commissar Order to shoot Red Army political commissars in German-occupied countries, the killing of POWs and participation in the Holocaust.

Otto Schniewind

After the War he was arrested and prosecuted during the High Command Trial for his role in the invasion of Norway (Operation Weserübung) but he was acquitted, after which he was released from captivity.

Rudolf Lehmann

Rudolf Lehmann (military judge) (1890–1955), Judge Advocate-General of the OKW, defendant in the High Command Trial



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