Alfred Jodl
Alfred Jodl
Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl; 10 May 1890 – 16 October 1946) was a German general, who served the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command, and a war criminal during World War II. He signed the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich for the then President Karl Dönitz in 1945. After the war, Jodl was indicted on the charges of conspiracy to commit crime against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression; war crimes; and...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth10 May 1890
CountryGermany
To this very day, I do not know what he (Hitler) thought or knew or really wanted. I only knew my own thoughts and suspicions.
Yes, I'm very normal, everything is okay, I won't become a psychiatric case.
Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray.
The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out.
My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.