Hellmuth Felmy

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Hellmuth Felmy (28 May 1885 – 14 December 1965) was a German general and

war criminal during World War II, commanding forces in occupied Greece and Yugoslavia. A high-ranking Luftwaffe officer, Felmy was tried and convicted in the 1948 Hostages Trial
.

Biography

Born Walter Hellmuth Wolfgang Felmÿ on 28 May 1885 in

Imperial Army and, in 1912, Felmy went to flight school to become a pilot for the Imperial Army Air Service. During World War I, Felmy commanded a squadron on the Turkish Front. After the war, he remained in the German military. Felmy alternated between infantry and aviation assignments in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic. On 4 February 1938, Felmy was promoted to General der Flieger
.

By the beginning of World War II, Felmy commanded Air Fleet 2 (

Mechelen Incident and replaced by Albert Kesselring. The reputation of his sons, also members of the Luftwaffe, were also tarnished. In an effort to rehabilitate his family he joined the Nazi Party (against protocol).[2]

In May 1941, Felmy was called up by the High Command of the Armed Forces (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, or OKW) to be the commander of Special Staff F,[3] the military mission to Iraq. While Felmy was a General der Flieger, he was not responsible for commanding the air force component of the Special Staff.[4] Sonderstab F lasted from 20 May to 20 June, ending in failure. Felmy commanded the mission in Iraq from occupied Greece.

After the failure of the mission to Iraq, Felmy was appointed commander of Army Group Southern Greece (Befehlshaber Südgriechenland). From 1942 to 1943, he remained in Greece and commanded a "special deployment" (zur besonderen Verwendung, or z. b. V.) unit named after him (z. b. V. Felmy). From 1943 to 1944, he commanded the

XXXIV Army Corps.[5] In 1945, the XXXIV Corps was defeated during the Yugoslav Partisan General Offensive
of March and April.

In 1948, during the

Peck Panel". He was released early, on 15 December 1951. On 14 December 1965, Felmy died in Darmstadt, West Germany
.

Posthumous

In 2007, Felmy's writings about

Cossacks who fought for the Germans, along with those of Walter Warlimont
, were published in The Cossack Corps.

Felmy's son, Hansjörg Felmy (1931–2007), was a successful actor and appeared in the films Torn Curtain and Brainwashed.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Heiber, pg. 210
  2. ^ Hooton 1999, p. 195.
  3. ^ Heiber, pg. 211
  4. ^ Lyman, pg. 84
  5. ^ Heiber, pg. 211

References

  • ISBN 0-395-41057-6
    .
  • Heiber, Helmut, and Glantz, David M. (2005). Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences 1942-1945. New York: Enigma Books.
    ISBN 1-929631-09-X.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
    )
  • Hooton, Edward (1994). Phoenix Triumphant: The Rise and Rise of the Luftwaffe. Arms & Armour.
    OCLC 974279361
    .
  • Lyman, Robert (2006). Iraq 1941: The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad. Campaign. Oxford, New York: Osprey Publishing. p. 96.
    ISBN 1-84176-991-6
    .
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Military offices
Preceded by
None
 Commander of Luftflotte 2
1 February 1939 - 12 January 1940 		Succeeded by
Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring
Preceded by
None
 Commander of
LXVIII. Armeekorps

23 September 1942 - 1 December 1944 		Succeeded by
General der Infanterie Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller
Preceded by
General der Infanterie Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller
 Commander of
XXXIV. Armeekorps

8 December 1944 - 8 May 1945 		Succeeded by
None
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