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Gen.-Lt. Andreas Nielsen
GENERALLEUTNANT ANDREAS NIELSEN (December 23, 1899 - April 24, 1957), a former General Staff officer of the German Luftwaffe during World War II, was well qualified to write the present study.
Unt...lihat lebih banyakGENERALLEUTNANT ANDREAS NIELSEN (December 23, 1899 - April 24, 1957), a former General Staff officer of the German Luftwaffe during World War II, was well qualified to write the present study.
Until 1933, during the period of secret rearmament, he served as an officer in the Reichswehr. In 1933, already recognized by his superiors as a promising young officer, he was selected to attend the Army War Academy. After leaving the Academy, in 1935, he transferred into the Luftwaffe and a key position as General Staff officer in the Luftwaffe Personnel Office. He continued in the Personnel Office until 1939, serving the last two years there as Chief of the Policy Section.
In 1939, General Nielsen saw active duty in Spain and Poland. In 1940, during the French campaign, he served as Chief of the General Staff of II Air Corps. From 1940 through 1943 he was Chief of the General Staff of Fifth Air Fleet and in 1944 he became Chief of the General Staff of Air Fleet Reich, in which position he served until the capitulation.
He died, while working for the German Monograph Project, in April 1957.
TELFORD TAYLOR (February 24, 1908 - May 23, 1998) was an American lawyer, former Army Intelligence officer and decorated Colonel during World War II. He is best known for his role in the Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials after the war, his opposition to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, and his outspoken criticism of U.S. actions during the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s.lihat lebih sedikit