Hermann Reinecke

Who was Hermann Reinecke?

Hermann Reinecke was a General der Infanterie and convicted war criminal of Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II.

He was a former Lieutenant General and the head of the General Office of the Armed Forces at OKW. Reinecke was also head of the office for the NSFO, which consisted of Nazi officers charged with political propaganda in the Wehrmacht. Major Karl August Meinel, 1 August 1942, was shifted into the Führerreserve, because on 13 January 1942 he wrote a critical report to Hermann Reinecke on the segregation and execution of Russian prisoners of war in prison camp Stalag VII A by the Gestapo and the Sicherheitsdienst SD of the Reichsführer SS.

In the High Command Trial at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, Reinecke was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was released, however, in October 1954.