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After 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. The principal charges against him related to his signing of the criminal Commando and Commissar Orders.

Found guilty on all charges, he was sentenced to death and executed in Nuremberg in Alfred Jodl was educated at a military cadet school in Munich , from which he graduated in Ferdinand Jodl , who also became an army general, was his younger brother. He was the nephew of philosopher and psychologist Friedrich Jodl at the University of Vienna.

From to , he served with a field artillery regiment on the Western Front , being awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class for gallantry in November , and for being wounded in action. In , he served briefly on the Eastern Front before returning to the West as a staff officer.

Alfred Jodl: A Controversial

In , he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class for gallantry in action. After the defeat of the German Empire in , he continued his career as a professional soldier with the much-reduced German Army Reichswehr. Jodl's appointment as a major in the operations branch of the Truppenamt 'Troop Office' in the Army High Command in the last years of the Weimar Republic put him under the command of General Ludwig Beck.

During the build-up to the Second World War, Jodl was nominally assigned as commander of the 44th Division from October to August after the Anschluss. Following the Fall of France , Jodl was optimistic of Germany's success over Britain, writing on 30 June that "The final German victory over England is now only a question of time.

Jodl signed the Commissar Order of 6 June in which Soviet political commissars were to be shot and the Commando Order of 28 October in which Allied commandos , including properly uniformed soldiers as well as combatants wearing civilian clothes, such as Maquis and partisans , were to be executed immediately without trial if captured behind German lines.

On 1 February , he was promoted to the rank of Generaloberst 'colonel general', a four-star rank. He was among those slightly injured during the 20 July plot of against Hitler, during which he suffered a concussion.