that the "incident" to provide German intervention must occur at the latest by 1400 hours on X-1 Day, the day before the attack, and said it must occur at a fixed time in good flying weather. He initialed items 14, 17, 24, 36 and 37 in the notes. In planning the attack on Czechosloivakia, Jodl was very active, according to the Schmundt notes. Jodl issued supplementary instructions on 11 March and initialed Hitler's order for the invasion on the same date. His diary for 10 March shows Hitler then ordered the preparation of "Case Otto" and the directive was initialed by Jodl. When Hitler decided not to tolerate Von Schuschnigg’s plebiscite, Jodl brought to the conference the "old draft", the existing staff plan. Though he claims that as a soldier he had to obey Hitler, he says that he often tried to obstruct certain measures by delay, which occasionally proved successful as when he resisted Hitler's demand that a directive be issued to lynch Allied "terror fliers".Įntries in Jodl's diary of 13 and 14 February 1938 show Hitler instructed both him and Keitel to keep up military pressure against Austria, begun at the Von Schuschnigg conference, by simulating military measures and that these achieved their purpose. He said that when he signed or initialed orders, memoranda and letters, he did so for Hitler and often in the absence of Keitel. Jodl defends himself on the ground he was a soldier sworn to obedience and not a politician and that his staff and planning work left him no time for other matters. In the strict military sense, Jodl was the actual planner of the war and responsible in large measure for the strategy and conduct of operations. Although his immediate superior was Defendant Keitel, he reported directly to Hitler on operational matters. After a year in command of troops, in August 1939 he returned to become Chief of the Operations Staff of the High Command of the Armed Forces. From 1935 to 1938 he was Chief of the National Defense Section in the High Command. ( See war crime: The Nürnberg and Tokyo trials.Jodl is indicted on all four Counts.( explanation).
He was executed after trial and conviction for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal at Nürnberg. As chief of operations staff, he had signed many orders for the shooting of hostages and for other acts contrary to international law. On May 7, 1945, he signed the capitulation of the German armed forces to the western Allies at Reims, France. With Wilhelm Keitel, OKW chief of staff, he became a key figure in Hitler’s central military command and was involved in implementing all of Germany’s campaigns except the beginning of the Russia invasion in the second half of 1941. A competent staff officer and Adolf Hitler’s faithful servant to the end, he was named chief of operations of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW Armed Forces High Command) on August 23, 1939, just before the invasion of Poland. Primarily a staff officer during and after World War I, Jodl served as head of the department of national defense in the war ministry from 1935.
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