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
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
Nuremberg executions
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On the early morning of October 16, 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg trials, ten prominent members of the political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were executed by hanging:
Wilhelm Keitel
…on all counts of the indictment: crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, criminal conspiracy, and war crimes. He was sentenced to death and executed in Nuremberg by hanging in 1946. Wilhelm Keitel was born in the village of Helmscherode near Gandersheim in the Duchy of Brunswick, Germany. He was the eldest son…
The body of Hermann Göring who had committed suicide pre-empting execution
The body of Joachim von Ribbentrop
The body of Wilhelm Keitel, showing injuries as he hit his head on the trapdoor.
The body of Ernst Kaltenbrunner