Wilhelm Keitel
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Wilhelm Keitel | |
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![]() Wilhelm Keitel | |
Birth name | Wilhelm Bodewin Gustav Keitel |
Elk-name | "Lakeitel" |
Born | 22 September 1882 Helmscherode, Brunswick, German Empire |
Dee'd | 16 October 1946 Nuremberg, Allied-occupied Germany | (aged 64)
Allegiance | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Service/branch | Wehrmacht |
Years o service | 1901–1945 |
Rank | Generalfeldmarschall |
Commands held | OKW |
Battles/wars | Warld War I Warld War II |
Awairds | Knight's Cross o the Airn Cross Wound Badge o 20 Julie 1944 (in black) Gowden Pairty Badge |
Relations | Bodewin Keitel (brither) |
Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (22 September 1882 – 16 October 1946) wis a German field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall). As heid o the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Supreme Command o the Airmed Forces) an de facto war meenister unner Adolf Hitler, he wis ane o Germany's maist senior militar leaders during Warld War II. At the Allied court at Nuremberg he wis tried, sentenced tae daith an hanged as a war criminal. He wis the seicont heichest-rankin German sauldier tae be tried at Nuremberg efter Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring.
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- Knichts 2nt Class o the Saxe-Ernestine Hoose Order
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- German anti-communists