Wilhelm List

Wilhelm List is handed the indictment in the Hostage Trial in 1947

Siegmund Wilhelm von List (May 14, 1880 - August 17, 1971), was a German Field Marshal during World War II.

He entered the Army in 1898 and served as a staff officer in the First World War.

During 1939 he commanded the German 14th Army in Poland. From 1939 to 1941 he commanded the German 12th Army in France and Greece. During 1941 he was Commander-in-Chief South-East. In 1942 he was Commander-in-Chief of Army Group A on the Eastern Front with Russia.

List was captured by the allies after the war and was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Hostages Trial at Nuremberg. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in February 1948. In December 1952 List was released from prison because of ill health. He died on August 17 1971.