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Among higher-ranking officers, 29.2% were NSDAP members by 1941. [58] The Wehrmacht obeyed Hitler's criminal orders for Barbarossa not because of obedience to orders, but because they, like Hitler, believed that the Soviet Union was run by Jews and that Germany must completely destroy "Judeo-Bolshevism". [59]
Paul Schäfer – Hitler Youth member and Wehrmacht corporal, subsequently convicted for multiple charges of child sex abuse in Chile. Gustav Adolf Scheel – Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of Reichsgau Salzburg (1941–1945) and a Nazi "multifunctionary."
The Wehrmacht was the combined armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945, the Army (), Navy (Kriegsmarine) and Air Force totaling about 18 million men, created on 16 March 1935 with Adolf Hitler's Defence Law introducing conscription. [6]
As early as March 1933, two months after Hitler was appointed Chancellor, the Sturmabteiling began to attack trade union offices without legal consequences. Several union offices were occupied, their furnishings were destroyed, their documents were stolen or burned, and union members were beaten and in some cases killed; the police ignored these attacks and declared itself without jurisdiction ...
The attempt failed, resulting in the execution of 4,980 people [145] and the standard military salute being replaced with the Hitler salute. [146] Some members of the Wehrmacht did save Jews and non-Jews from the concentration camps and/or mass murder.
British historian Richard J. Evans wrote that junior officers tended to be especially zealous National Socialists, with a third of them being Nazi Party members in 1941. [14] The Wehrmacht did not just obey Hitler's criminal orders for Barbarossa because of obedience, but rather because they shared Hitler's belief that the Soviet Union was run ...
On 6 December 1946, he began espionage operations against the Soviet Union, by establishing what was known to US intelligence as the Gehlen Organization or "the Org", a secret intelligence service composed of former intelligence officers of the Wehrmacht and members of the SS and the SD, which was headquartered first at Oberursel, near ...
Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈkaɪtl̩]; 22 September 1882 – 16 October 1946) was a German field marshal who held office as chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the high command of Nazi Germany's armed forces, during World War II.