Maximilian Maria Joseph Karl Gabriel Lamoral Reichsfreiherr von und zu Weichs an der Glonn was a German Generalfeldmarschall in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.
Weichs, c. 1943–1945
Generals Milch, Keitel, Brauchitsch, Admiral Raeder and Weichs at the 1938 Nuremberg Rally
Gerd von Rundstedt with Weichs in France, June 1940
Weichs (right) in Russia during Case Blue, September 1942
The United States of America v. Wilhelm List, et al., commonly known as the Hostages Trial, was the seventh of the twelve "Subsequent Nuremberg trials" for war crimes and crimes against humanity after
Maximilian von Weichs
…Yugoslavia. During the Nuremberg Trials, Weichs was implicated in war crimes committed in the Balkans, and was scheduled to take part in the US Army's Hostages Trial. He was removed from the proceeding for "medical reasons" without having been judged or sentenced. Born in 1881 into an aristocratic family, Maximilian…
Defendants in the dock and their lawyers during the Hostages Trial
Wilhelm List is handed the indictment in the Hostages Trial. Standing beside him is Maximilian von Weichs.
Bundesarchiv Bild 183 S36487, Wilhelm List