Himmler

General "Smiling Albert" Kesselring - German commander in Italy with policies which led to the execution of hundreds of innocent unarmed Italian civilians.  He was sentenced to death after a British war crimes trial in Venice, but was spared after the intervention inter alia of Churchill, Alexander, and Leese who thought he was a decent fellow.  Several million Italians knew otherwise.  He was released on medical grounds in 1952, and died in 1960 aged 74.

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'Smiling Albert'

Inner courtyard of the SS barracks in Nuremberg, visit by Chief of Police Martin during an exercise on 11 May, 1942 