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About Franz Halder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Halder
Franz Halder (30 June 1884 – 2 April 1972) was a German general and the chief of staff of the Army High Command (OKH) in Nazi Germany from 1938 until September 1942. During World War II, he directed the planning and implementation of Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. Halder became instrumental in the radicalisation of warfare on the Eastern Front. He had his staff draft both the Commissar Order (issued on 6 June 1941) and the Barbarossa Decree (signed on 13 May 1941) that allowed German soldiers to execute Soviet citizens for any reason without fear of later prosecution, leading to numerous war crimes and atrocities during the campaign. After the war, he had a decisive role in the development of the myth of the clean Wehrmacht.
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Franz Halder's Timeline
| 1884 |
June 30, 1884
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Würzburg, Lower Franconia, BY, Germany
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| 1972 |
April 2, 1972
Age 87
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Aschau Im Chiemgau, Upper Bavaria, BY, Germany
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