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Otto Schmidt-Hartung (9 February 1892 – 19 February 1976) was a German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Awards and decorations
Paul Otto Gustav Schmidt [1] [2] (23 June 1899 – 21 April 1970) [3] was an interpreter in the German foreign ministry from 1923 to 1945. During his career, he served as the translator for Neville Chamberlain's negotiations with Adolf Hitler over the Munich Agreement, the British Declaration of War and the surrender of France.
During this time, American troops arrested a German soldier named Karl von Loesch, an assistant to Hitler's personal translator Paul-Otto Schmidt, as he was retreating from Treffurt, near Eisenach. [4] Schmidt had instructed him to destroy all the top-secret papers which he had placed in archives.
It is not meant to be listing every person who was ever a member of the Nazi Party. This is a list of notable figures who were active within the party and whose course of action was somewhat of historical significance, or who were members of the Nazi Party according to multiple reliable sources.
Erich-Otto Schmidt (17 August 1899 – 18 June 1959) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the 352. Volksgrenadier Division. Volksgrenadier Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross .
Otto Abetz: German ambassador to Vichy France; sentenced to 20 years in 1949 for war crimes; released 1954. Died 1958 253314 1 August 1935 7011453 ... Lothar Schmidt
Doctor Oberleutnant Otto Schmidt HOH, IC (23 March 1885 – 24 July 1944) was a German World War I fighter ace credited with 20 aerial victories, including eight against enemy observation balloons. He commanded three different jagdstaffeln (squadrons) as well as a jagdgruppe (fighter wing).
Throughout the war, Schmidt was a camp physician at Buchenwald, Majdanek, Gross-Rosen, Dachau, Boelke Kaserne subcamp, and Bergen-Belsen. After the war Schmidt testified as a witness in the Belsen Trial on October 25, 1945. Although Schmidt himself was tried in 1947 and 1975 for complicity in war crimes, he was twice acquitted