of his command, in late August 1944, following the disintegration of the German front line, after the Allied breakout from Normandy (Operation Cobra), receiving no further command. Trial and conviction Salmuth was tried in the High Command Trial, as part of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials. Salmuth was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder and mis-treatment of Soviet prisoners of war, and of murder, deportation, and hostage-taking of civilians in occupied countries. He was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. His sentence was reviewed in 1951, commuted to 12 years and backdated to June 1945. Salmuth was released in July 1953. He died in 1962. Service record Commissions XXX Corps - 10 May 1941 - 27 December 1941 Seventeenth Army - 20 April 1942 - 1 June 1942 Fourth Army - 6 June 1942 - 15 July 1942 Second Army - 15 July 1942 - 3 February 1943 Fourth Army - c. June 1943 - 31 July 1943 Fifteenth Army - 1 August 1943 - 25 August 1944 Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 19 July 1940 as Generalleutnant and Chief of the general staff of Heeresgruppe B References Citations Bibliography External links 1888 births 1962 deaths Military personnel from Metz People from Alsace-Lorraine German untitled nobility German Army personnel of World War I German Army generals of World War II Colonel generals of the German Army (Wehrmacht) Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross Recipients of the clasp to the Iron Cross, 1st class German people convicted of crimes against humanity People convicted by the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals Reichswehr personnel