1. Walter Warlimont was a German Army staff officer and general during World War II.
21 Facts About Walter Warlimont
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Walter Warlimont served as deputy chief of the Operations Staff, one of departments in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the Armed Forces High Command.
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In May 1929, Walter Warlimont was attached to the US Army for a year to study American industrial mobilization theory during wartime.
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Reich War Minister Werner von Blomberg directed Walter Warlimont to coordinate German aid in support of Franco's battle against the Spanish government forces.
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In 1937, he wrote the Walter Warlimont Memorandum calling for the reorganisation of the German armed forces under one staff unit and one supreme commander.
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Walter Warlimont was rewarded in 1939 with a post as deputy to General Alfred Jodl.
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In late 1938, Walter Warlimont became Senior Operations Staff Officer to General Wilhelm Keitel.
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In February 1943, Walter Warlimont travelled to Tunis to confer with Rommel as to whether or not the Germans should abandon North Africa.
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In early 1944, Walter Warlimont was promoted to General of the Artillery.
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On D-Day, when the Allies invaded Normandy, France, Walter Warlimont telephoned Jodl to request that the German tanks in Normandy should be released to attack the Allied invaders.
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On 20 July 1944, Walter Warlimont was wounded during the assassination bombing against Hitler in a war-briefing building in Rastenburg.
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Later, Walter Warlimont urged General Heinrich Eberbach to continue his attacks in the Falaise pocket region.
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In October 1948, Walter Warlimont was tried before a United States military tribunal in the High Command Trial, part of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials.
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Walter Warlimont was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, in part for his responsibility for drafting the Barbarossa Jurisdiction Order which allowed the murder of civilians on the pretext of counteracting partisan activity.
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Walter Warlimont signed the order to execute Russian political Commissars on sight.
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Walter Warlimont's sentence was reviewed by the "Peck Panel", which made a more lenient recommendation.
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Walter Warlimont's sentence was commuted to 18 years in 1951.
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Walter Warlimont was a son of Louis Warlimont and Anna Rinck.
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Walter Warlimont's parents came from Eupen, today part of the German-speaking Community of Belgium, and migrated to Osnabruck.
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Walter Warlimont's brother was head of a factory in Vienna which made components for the V-2 rocket, using forced labour from the Soviet Union.
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Walter Warlimont died in 1976 in Kreuth near the Tegernsee.