The HORRORS of Alfred Jodl Execution Method *Warning REAL FOOTAGE JJ

It is 2:34 in the morning, October 16th, 1946, Nuremberg, Germany. A man in a crisp military uniform climbs 13 wooden steps. His back is straight. His eyes are forward. He doesn’t shake. He doesn’t beg. He doesn’t even blink. He is one of the most feared military minds in human history. The man who sat beside Adolf Hitler every single day of World War II, who translated the Furer’s madness into actual battlefield operations, who signed orders that led to the murder of thousands of Allied

soldiers who had already surrendered. His name is Alfred Yodel. And what is about to happen inside that gymnasium, what the US Army desperately tried to hide from the public for decades, will leave you absolutely speechless because the execution of Alfred Yodel did not go as planned. Not even close. So, you are watching Veil History, the channel that digs beneath the official record and uncovers the raw, unfiltered truth that mainstream history leaves out. If this is your first time here, hit subscribe

right now and turn on your notifications. We publish stories that most channels are too afraid to tell. Now, let’s pull back the veil. To understand how Alfred Yodel ended up on those gallows, you have to start at the beginning, not on a battlefield, but in a quiet Bavarian town called Vertzburg. Born on May 10th, 1890, Alfred Ysef Ferdinand Yodel grew up in a household that revered military service the way other families revered religion. His father had served, his uncles had served. The uniform wasn’t just

clothing, it was identity. From the time he was a child, Jodel believed that discipline, loyalty, and obedience were the highest virtues a man could possess. By 1910, he had enlisted in the Bavarian army. By 1912, he was a lieutenant. And when World War I exploded in 1914, Yodel was already at the front fighting at Sarberg, getting wounded, watching men die around him, and somehow surviving it all. He came out of WWI not broken, but harder, more certain than ever that Germany’s military greatness could and

would be restored. That belief would ultimately cost him everything. Here is a chapter of Yodel’s story that almost no one covers, and it reveals something deeply human inside a man history has rightly painted as a monster. Alfred Yodel married his first wife, Irma, in September 1913. She was a countess. I mean, refined, elegant, the picture of old German aristocracy. Their marriage lasted over three decades. But as the war consumed everything around them, Irma’s health deteriorated. She died on

April 18th, 1944, while Yodel was deep inside Hitler’s inner war machine, planning campaigns that stretched from Norway to North Africa to the frozen steps of the Soviet Union. But here is the part that makes this story complicated. Louise Katherina von Benda had been Irma’s close personal friend. She had also been Yodel’s secretary inside the OKH, the Army High Command. Their relationship had deepened during the war in ways that crossed professional boundaries. In just 3 weeks before Germany’s total collapse on April

7th, 1945, with Allied forces closing in from every direction, Alfred Yodel married Louise. Think about that for a moment. The war is lost. Berlin is burning. The Third Reich is days from total destruction when in this man, Hitler’s chief military strategist, pauses to marry the woman he loves. Their marriage lasted exactly 192 days because 192 days after their wedding, Yodel was hanged. Louisa spent the rest of her life fighting to clear his name. She attached herself to his defense team during the Nuremberg proceedings. She

gave interviews. She challenged documents. She argued until her dying day, January 26, 1998, that her husband had been a soldier, not a murderer. Whether you believe her or not, the devotion was real, the love was real, and it makes the story of Alfred Yodel far more complex than a simple tale of evil. But let’s be clear about what Alfred Yodel actually did, because sentiment and love letters do not erase the historical record. By 1939, Yodel was chief of the operations staff of the Vermach High Command, the OKW. In plain

terms, he was the brain behind every major Nazi military campaign. Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, North Africa, the Soviet Union, every invasion, every strategic operation, every campaign of conquest. The plans passed through Yodel’s hands. He attended Hitler’s daily war briefings. He sat in the same room as the furer while cities burned and millions died. He was not a distant administrator. He was present, active, and completely aware of what the Nazi war machine was doing to the world. And

in 1942, he signed the commander order. This directive issued under Hitler’s authority but transmitted and signed by Yodel ordered German forces to execute Allied special operation soldiers on the spot even after capture even if they were unarmed even if they had formally surrendered. Under international law, this was a war crime, a clear documented undeniable war crime. And Yodel signed it with his own hand. The order led directly to the execution of captured Allied soldiers across Norway, France,

Italy, and beyond. Men who had laid down their weapons were shot in barns, in fields, in the backs of trucks. Their only crime was being captured during commando operations. Jodel also transmitted orders for mass civilian reprisals on the Eastern Front where entire villages were burned and populations were slaughtered in response to partisan resistance. He signed orders that treated Soviet prisoners of war not as human beings but as expendable liabilities contributing to a system in which millions of Soviet PS died of

deliberate starvation and exposure. And through all of it, the commando order, the reprisal killings, o the mass death on the Eastern front, Yodel maintained a professional calm. He was a soldier doing his duty. Nothing more, nothing less. That argument would later fail spectacularly in front of the entire world. November 20th, 1945, the International Military Tribunal opens in Nuremberg, the very city that had once thundered with Nazi rally chance and swastika flags. 21 of the highest ranking surviving Nazi leaders are

placed in the dock. Among them, Herman Guring, Yokim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Kaidel, and Alfred Yodel. The charges are sweeping. Conspiracy to wage aggressive war, crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Yodel’s defense was built on a single foundation. I was a soldier following orders. His lawyers argued that the military chain of command demanded obedience. Wo that questioning or refusing a direct order from the Supreme Commander was not a realistic option inside the Nazi military structure. And

here is where the journalism gets important because Yodel’s wife Louise actually raised a legitimate procedural concern. She later alleged to biographer Ga Sereni that the Allied prosecution used documents against Yodel that they refused to share with the defense team. It was a real legal irregularity, the kind of thing that in any normal court would trigger serious questions about due process. But the tribunal’s answer to Jodel’s following orders defense was devastating and definitive. Under

international law, a soldier has a moral and legal duty to disobey unlawful commands. A staff officer of Yodel’s rank intelligence to gain access. A man who sat directly beside the commander-in-chief and who drafted the very orders in question cannot claim he had no choice. Document after document bore his signature, the commando order, reprisal directives, operational plans for wars of aggression. On October 1st, 1946, after more than 10 months of proceedings, the verdict was read aloud in that Nuremberg courtroom. Guilty on

all four counts. Sentence, death by hanging. October 15th, 1946. Yodel spent his final hours writing letters to Louise, to friends, to history. He maintained right up to the last hour of his life that he had acted honorably, that he had served Germany faithfully, and that the judgment of the tribunal was politically motivated. For his last meal, Yodel and the other condemned men were served sausage and cold cuts, potato salad, black bread, tea, the kind of simple, ordinary food that felt grotesqually out of place

given what the next few hours would bring. Shortly after midnight, guards began leading the men one by one to the gymnasium of Nuremberg prison. Three wooden gallows had been erected inside. The executioners were Master Sergeant John C. Woods and his assistant, Military Policeman Joseph Malta. They went in scheduled order. Ribbon trop first executed at 1:30 a.m. Then Kitle, then Calton Bruner, then Rosenberg, then Frank, then Frick, then Striker, then SL, then Alfred Yodel. He climbed the 13 steps without assistance. He stood at

the top of the gallows and delivered his final words. My greetings to you, my eternal Germany. The hood was placed over his head. The noose was fitted around his neck. The trap door opened. When and then nothing went as planned. What happened next inside that gymnasium is one of the most disturbing and suppressed chapters of the entire Nermberg story. Master Sergeant John C. Woods, the designated executioner, had reportedly falsified his credentials. He claimed experience he didn’t have. And

on the night of October 16th, 1946, those false credentials produced catastrophic consequences. The standard drop method used that night was designed to break the condemned man’s neck at the moment of impact, producing near instant death. But Woods had miscalculated the drop distances. The trap door itself was too small. Several of the condemned men struck the sides of the trapoor frame as they fell, suffering violent, bloody head injuries on the way down, and the ropes were too short. Instead of a

clean, swift execution was multiple men strangled to death slowly in the dark behind a black curtain out of sight of witnesses. The official death records tell the story in cold numbers. Ribbentrop died at 1:30 a.m., but that process took approximately 18 minutes. Kaidle’s execution lasted 24 minutes. His nose was broken and bloodied from striking the trap door frame. Alfred Yodel’s official time of death was recorded as 2:50 a.m. He had dropped at approximately 2:34 a.m. That is 16 minutes. 16 minutes of strangulation

behind a black curtain in the gymnasium in Nuremberg while witnesses stood in silence. The United States Army officially denied that anything had gone wrong. They insisted the deaths were quick and the execution’s professional, but the time records, their own time records, told a completely different story. One witness, Lieutenant Stanley Tillis, later described watching the face of John C. Woods during the executions. He described a man whose jaw clenched and whose expression shifted in ways that unsettled everyone in the

room. The bodies were subsequently transported to Munich where they were cremated. Their ashes were scattered into the river Isar. No graves, no markers, no place for sympathy or pilgrimage. History’s most deliberate eraser. Alfred Yodel was executed on October 16th, 1946. He was 56 years old. But the story did not end there. And this is where history delivers one of its most uncomfortable twists. In 1953, 7 years after his execution, a West German denassification court in Munich postumously reviewed Yodel’s case and

overturned his conviction. The German court argued that under German law, when Yodel had been acting within the bounds of military duty and should not have been found guilty. The ruling caused international outrage. Allied governments pushed back furiously. The postumous aqu quiddle was never recognized by the Nuremberg tribunal or by international law and historians have largely treated it as a product of cold war era West German politics rather than serious legal analysis because the documents don’t lie. The commando order

exists. The signatures are real. The thousands of Allied soldiers who were shot after surrendering are documented in Allied military records. Alfred Yodel was many things. a brilliant military mind, a devoted husband, a man who genuinely believed he was serving his country, but he was also a war criminal. Anel, a man who used his extraordinary intelligence and his extraordinary position not to stop atrocity, but to execute it more efficiently. And history, whatever German courts decided in 1953, has not forgotten. That is the

full unfiltered story of Alfred Yodel. The man who planned Hitler’s wars, loved his wife, signed orders that killed thousands, and died strangling on a rope in a gymnasium in Nuremberg while the world looked away. If this video gave you something to think about, smash that like button right now. It takes 2 seconds and it helps this channel reach more history lovers across the world. Drop a comment below. Do you think Yodel was truly a war criminal? Or was he a soldier trapped inside an impossible

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