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Walter Warlimont

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Also known as W. Warlimont

German general (1894-1976)

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Works
3

Top works

  • Fighting the Invasion
  • INSIDE HITLER'S HEADQUARTERS 1939-1945
  • Inside Hitler's headquarters 1939-45

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Active from
1946-12-13

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Quotes

  • 1. Political officials and leaders are to be liquidated. 2. Insofar as they are captured by the troops, an officer with authority to impose disciplinary punishment decides whether the given individual must be liquidated. For such a decision the fact suffices that he is a political official. 3. Political leaders in the troops (Red Army) are not recognized as prisoners of war and are to be liquidated at the latest in the prisoner-of-war transit camps.
  • This decision is absolutely contrary to my understanding of what the plan was to be in the event of an invasion.
  • You must attack as soon as possible.
  • The Fuhrer has decided to raze the city of St. Petersburg from the face of the earth. After the defeat of Soviet Russia there will be not the slightest reason for the future existence of this large city.
  • Hitler's large-scale demands for the Mediterranean meant that...the plans for...an 'Eastern Wall' were overtaken by the increasingly rapid advance of the Red Army.

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Key facts

Leader
Alfred Jodl
Preceded by
Office established
Succeeded by
Horst Freiherr Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels
Born
( 1894-10-03 ) 3 October 1894, Osnabrück , Province of Hanover , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire
Died
9 October 1976 (1976-10-09) (aged 82), Kreuth , Bavaria , West Germany
Spouse
Anita von Kleydorff ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1927 ) ​
Parent s
Louis Warlimont (father), Anna Rinck (mother)
Allegiance
German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany
Branch service
Imperial German Army Reichswehr German Army
Years of service
1914–1945
Rank
General der Artillerie
Battles wars
World War I , World War II

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Encyclopedic overview

Walter Warlimont (WAH-li-moh; 3 October 1894 – 9 October 1976) was a German Army staff officer and general during World War II. He served as deputy chief of the Operations Staff, one of the departments in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the Armed Forces High Command. Following the war, Warlimont was convicted in the High Command Trial and sentenced to life imprisonment as a war criminal. He was released in 1954.

World War I and inter-war years

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Walter Warlimont” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.