German Army Field Marshal. He began his military career being commissioned an artillery officer in the German Army, June 1914. During World War I, he fought on the Western Front as a battery officer and rose through the ranks to become brigade adjutant artillery commander. He remained in the army after the war, was selected for the general staff in the 1920s and with the rise of the German Third Reich in 1933, he was given command of the 26th Artillery Regiment. In September 1938, he was appointed head of Nazi Germany's Home Defense, attended Adolph Hitler's military conferences and drafted most of Germany's major operational plans and directives. Promoted Major General in August 1940, he drew up the preliminary plans with General Alfred Jodl for Operation Barbarossa in December 1940. He was promoted Lieutenant General head of the Wehrmacht Leadership Staff in April 1942 and made Field Marshal General of Artillery in April 1944. In the Hitler assassination attempt on July 20, 1944, Warlimont was seriously injured by the bomb placed in the bunker by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. After recovering, Hitler had him transferred and retired to the Führer Reserve OKH Command Pool, for the remainder of the war. With the German defeat in May 1945, Warlimont was held as a prisoner-of-war. In the 1948 Nuremberg trials, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes but was given an amnesty and released in 1957. In later years he engaged in writing various war-historical studies which included his books "Inside Hitler's Headquarters" (1964), "The Decision in the Mediterranean 1942" (1965) and he narrated episodes on the 1970s documentary "The World at War".
German Army Field Marshal. He began his military career being commissioned an artillery officer in the German Army, June 1914. During World War I, he fought on the Western Front as a battery officer and rose through the ranks to become brigade adjutant artillery commander. He remained in the army after the war, was selected for the general staff in the 1920s and with the rise of the German Third Reich in 1933, he was given command of the 26th Artillery Regiment. In September 1938, he was appointed head of Nazi Germany's Home Defense, attended Adolph Hitler's military conferences and drafted most of Germany's major operational plans and directives. Promoted Major General in August 1940, he drew up the preliminary plans with General Alfred Jodl for Operation Barbarossa in December 1940. He was promoted Lieutenant General head of the Wehrmacht Leadership Staff in April 1942 and made Field Marshal General of Artillery in April 1944. In the Hitler assassination attempt on July 20, 1944, Warlimont was seriously injured by the bomb placed in the bunker by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. After recovering, Hitler had him transferred and retired to the Führer Reserve OKH Command Pool, for the remainder of the war. With the German defeat in May 1945, Warlimont was held as a prisoner-of-war. In the 1948 Nuremberg trials, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes but was given an amnesty and released in 1957. In later years he engaged in writing various war-historical studies which included his books "Inside Hitler's Headquarters" (1964), "The Decision in the Mediterranean 1942" (1965) and he narrated episodes on the 1970s documentary "The World at War".
Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
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