Ritterkreuz Award Ceremony for Hermann Foertsch

Ritterkreuz award ceremony for Generalleutnant Hermann Foertsch (left, Kommandeur 21. Infanterie-Division) which were held in the northern sector of the Eastern Front, October 1944. Foertsch received the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes on 27 August 1944 for his leadership of the 21st Infantry Division during the summer of 1944. In response to a Soviet breakthrough he launched a counterattack that succeeded in closing a frontline gap east of Lake Hino (in turn west of Pskov). In this picture, awarded the medal is Generaloberst Ferdinand Schörner (Oberbefehlshaber Heeresgruppe Nord), while facing the camera in the background is General der Infanterie Ehrenfried-Oskar Boege (Oberbefehlshaber 18. Armee).

Source :
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek photo archive (Image-No.: 50086047)
https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/4480/Foertsch-Hermann.htm

Hostages Case (or Southeast Case): Sentencing of German Generals Active in Southeastern Europe

(Münich 676) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings - Hostages Trial #7, Nürnberg, Germany, February 1948. Sentencing Southeast Generals. HAS, tribunal as Judge Charles F. Wennerstrum announces that sentencing will now be imposed. First two generals - Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm List and General der Pioniere Walter Kuntze - are given lifetime imprisonment. Former Generals - Generaloberst Lothar Rendulic, General der Infanterie Ernst Dehner, General der Flieger Wilhelm Speidel (Luftwaffe), General der Infanterie Ernst von Leyser, General der Flieger Hellmuth Felmy (Luftwaffe), and General der Gebirgstruppe Hubert Lanz are identified by name and sentenced; General der Infanterie Hermann Foertsch and Generalmajor der Reserve Curt Ritter von Geitner are freed.

This case is also known as the "Southeast Case" because the defendants were all German generals leading troops in southeastern Europe during the Balkans Campaign, i.e. in Greece, Albania, and Yugoslavia (and also in Norway). They were charged as responsible for taking civilians hostage and shooting them, along with partisans the German troops committed there from 1941 on, wantonly.

Source :
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1003073