August Schmidhuber was an SS-Brigadeführer who commanded two Waffen-SS divisions in occupied Yugoslavia and Albania during the latter stages of World War II who was executed by the post-war Yugoslav authorities for war crimes.
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August Schmidhuber (left) as regimental commander next to Artur Phleps commander of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen.
National Hero of Yugoslavia Petar Vojvodić arrests the German general August Schmidhuber, whom he previously disarmed and forced to surrender, (Slovenia, May 1945).Awards 1
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August Schmidhuber was an SS-Brigadeführer who commanded two Waffen-SS divisions in occupied Yugoslavia and Albania during the latter stages of World War II who was executed by the post-war Yugoslav authorities for war crimes. The Waffen-SS was an armed branch of the German Nazi Party that served alongside but was never formally part of the Wehrmacht. At the post-war Nuremberg trials, the Waffen-SS - of which Schmidhuber was a senior officer - was declared to be a criminal organisation due to its major involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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