Talk:Alexander Löhr

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"Austrian Airfocre commander and Luftwaffe Commander"

That's the same thing. Luftwaffe is german for Air Force. Bobby1011 15:15, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

He was a Commander of the Austrian Airforce before the Anschluss....therefore not a Luftwaffe Commander, although he did become one. He was Head of the Austrian Airforce before Gerany annexed Austria in 1938.

End of the war

The Kurt Waldheim article asserts that the General attempted some sort of special arrangement with the British at the end of the war, although it doesn't explicitly state what the General was trying to accomplish. What did he do at the end of the war, why'd he do it, did it get anywhere at all? MrZaius^talk 17:30, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Helden der Wehrmacht

Stop pushing this Nazi publication "Helden der Wehrmacht - Unsterbliche deutsche Soldaten / Heroes of the Wehrmacht - Immortal German soldiers" in this article. --Otberg (talk) 21:15, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

The Portrayal in right wing publications is not relevant for this article. --Otberg (talk) 09:54, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Three years later, but I agree. Will remove as OR. K.e.coffman (talk) 02:53, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Source

For future reference.

• War and Revolution in Yugoslavia: 1941 - 1945.

K.e.coffman (talk) 02:53, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

"Hotly contested"

Suggestion re this passage:

• Bischof, Plasser and Stelzl-Marx state that Löhr's role in the bombing of Belgrade is "hotly contested". Some sources argue that he was not in a position to oppose Hitler. Others state that because he had been partly responsible for the firebombing of Warsaw in 1939, he was well aware of the likely results of such an attack on Belgrade, and could have resigned. It has been observed that his resignation would not have stopped the firebombing, but also that he displayed no civil courage later in the war, particularly when it came to the deportation of Jews.

References

The preceding passage used to state that Löhr was convicted in connection to bombing of Belgrade in 1941, but that was not the case as other charges pertaining to the subsequent years of the war, up to his command decisions post Germany's surrender. I suggest removing it as it now reads like a non sequitur. Please let me know of any feedback. K.e.coffman (talk) 03:25, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

ancestry

Somebody inserted a claim that he had Jewish ancestors. Can somebody (maybe @K.e.coffman:) confirm this? I can’t access the source. — (((Romanophile))) ♞ (contributions) 14:47, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Conviction and execution

Should the wiki page link to Yugoslavia in this paragraph be linked to wiki page of Yugoslavia (SFRJ), instead of (general) Yugoslavia wiki page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ljubomirb (talk • contribs) 15:44, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

@Ljubomirb: Thanks for noticing this problem; I've fixed it. When you want to link to an article but display a different text, here's how to do it: [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] will display as Yugoslavia but links to Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Also, you can sign your comments with ~~~~. Welcome to Wikipedia! Please let me know if I can answer any questions. Catrìona (talk) 15:59, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Anyone an idea why generaloberst Löhr and generalleutnant Neidholdt were executed by firing squad but SS-Brigadeführer Schmidhuber, generalleutnant Fortner and others were hanged? Execution by firing squad is for a military man deemed to be more “honorable” than execution by hanging which was for common criminals… but is there an official reason given for this different treatment? And shouldn't it then be noted in the article? – fdewaele, 17 June 2022, 14:54 CET.

I suspect that it is a combination of who captured them and tried them and whether they were handed over by the Western Allies and whether there were any conditions on the handover, along with their level of personal responsibility for atrocities. However, I don't have a reliable source. It may be in the trial transcripts as part of the sentencing remarks, but I haven't looked at them myself. If someone develops this article to GA I would expect it to be at least looked at, but currently it is Start Class. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 04:56, 18 June 2022 (UTC)