Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
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The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht was the supreme military command and control staff of Nazi Germany during World War II, that was directly subordinated to Adolf Hitler. Created in 1938, the OKW succeede
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Wilhelm Keitel
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Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel was a German field marshal who held office as chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the high command of Nazi Germany's armed forces, during World War II. He sig
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
…Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht (Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces), to the detriment of the existing military structure. The OKW was led by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as Chief of the OKW with the rank of a Reich Minister, which essentially made him the second most powerful person in the armed forces' hierarchy after…
Keitel in 1942
Keitel (seated far right) with Hitler in the Sudetenland in 1938
Keitel (far left) and other members of the German high command with Adolf Hitler at a military briefing (c. 1940)
Keitel signing the ratified surrender terms for the German Army in Berlin, 8 May 1945