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Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (born 22 September 1882 in Helmscherode, Duchy Of Brunswick, Germany – died 16 October 1946 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany) was a German field marshal, a Nazi war criminal and the chief of the Wehrmacht between 1938 and 1945. He was one of the 24 accused of the Nuremberg Trials and hanged in 1946.
Nuremberg Trial Judgements: Wilhelm Keitel. Keitel is indicted on all four counts. He was Chief of Staff to the then Minister of War von Blomberg from 1935 to 4th February, 1938; on that day Hitler took command of the armed forces, making Keitel Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces. Keitel did not have command authority over the three ...
On October 16, 1946, Wilhelm Keitel was executed by hanging along with other high-ranking Nazi officials who had been sentenced to death. Wilhelm Keitel’s life and career serve as a chilling reminder of the extent to which individuals can become entangled in the machinery of tyranny and brutality. His unwavering loyalty to Adolf Hitler led ...
Wilhelm Keitel was born on the 22nd of September 1882 in the village of Helmscherode, then part of the German Empire and in 1901 he joined the Prussian army...
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21. Okt. 2021 · Keitel was hanged next. International News Service correspondent Kingsbury Smith shared fresh impressions in a report on 16 October: “With both von Ribbentrop and Keitel hanging at the end of their rope there was a pause in the proceedings. The American colonel directing the executions asked the American general representing the United States ...
Quick Reference. (1882–1946) German field-marshal who served as supreme commander of Hitler's armed forces throughout World War II. From a middle-class landowning family, Keitel served in the artillery and as a staff officer during World War I. After the war he found his true métier as a punctilious and conscientious administrator and in ...
