1. Lothar Rendulic was an Austrian war criminal and army group commander in the Wehrmacht during World War II.
14 Facts About Lothar Rendulic
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Lothar Rendulic was tried at the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials in 1948.
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Lothar Rendulic was born in 1887 in Austria into a military family of Croatian origin.
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Lothar Rendulic studied law and political science at universities in Vienna and Lausanne; in 1907, he was admitted to the Theresian Military Academy and commissioned as an officer into the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1910.
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Lothar Rendulic served during World War I from 1914 to 1918.
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Lothar Rendulic joined the newly formed Austrian Armed Forces and in 1932 joined the banned Austrian Nazi Party.
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From 1934, Lothar Rendulic served as a military attache to France and United Kingdom.
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Lothar Rendulic was called to the German Army, as part of the Wehrmacht, in 1938, after the annexation of Austria to Germany.
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From 1943 to 1944, Lothar Rendulic commanded the 2nd Panzer Army during World War II in Yugoslavia.
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Early in 1944, Adolf Hitler ordered Lothar Rendulic to devise a plan to capture Yugoslav partisan leader Josip Broz Tito.
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From June 1944, Lothar Rendulic commanded the 20th Mountain Army and all German troops stationed in Finland and Norway.
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In 1945, Lothar Rendulic served as the commander-in-chief of Army Group Courland cut off in the Courland Pocket on the Eastern Front; Army Group North in Northern Germany; and Army Group Ostmark, in Austria and Czechoslovakia.
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On 7 May 1945, following the Soviet Prague Offensive, Lothar Rendulic surrendered Army Group Ostmark to the 71st Infantry Division of the US Army in Austria.
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Lothar Rendulic died at Fraham near Eferding on 17 January 1971.