page_title: Walter Warlimont
section_title: Trial and conviction
hierarchical_section_title: Walter Warlimont / Trial and conviction
context_page_description: Walter Warlimont was a German staff officer during World War II. He served as deputy chief of the Operations Staff, one of departments in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the Armed Forces High Command. Following the war, Warlimont was convicted in the High Command Trial and sentenced to life imprisonment as a war criminal. He was released in 1954.
context_section_description: In October 1948, Warlimont was tried before a United States military tribunal in the High Command Trial, part of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in part for his responsibility for drafting the Barbarossa Jurisdiction Order which allowed the murder of civilians on the pretext of counteracting partisan activity. His sentence was reviewed by the "Peck Panel", which made a more lenient recommendation. This leniency was heavily criticized by Robert R. Bowie who stated "they [Reinecke, Kuechler and Warlimont] were all directly implicated in the program which encompassed the murder of commandos, commissars and captured allied airmen as well as in brutal mistreatment of prisoners of war". His sentence was commuted to 18 years in 1951. He was released in 1954.
  In 1962, Warlimont wrote Inside Hitler's Headquarters 1939–1945.  He died in 1976 in Kreuth near the Tegernsee.
caption: Warlimont at the Nuremberg Trials, 1948.
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