Ten years after the demise of Hitler’s Third Reich and six years after the founding of NATO, the organization felt that 1955 was the time to hire former German Nazi officers. In most cases, they were officers who were awarded the Knight’s Cross by Hitler for their (crimes) deeds, but only turned against him at the end of the war. Below three of them, namely the war criminals Hans Speidel, Adolf Heusinger and Johann Adolf Graf von Kielmansegg.Hans Speidel. Knight’s Cross bearer and persecutor of the Jews Hans Speidel was given NATO command of the Allied land forces in Central...