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William Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (* 22 September 1882 in Helmscherode with Gandersheim; "† 16 October 1946 in Nuremberg, executed) was a German army officer (since 1940 general field marshal) and war criminal condemned from 1938 to 1945 boss of the supreme command of the armed forces and.
William Keitel was the son of Carl and Apollonia Keitel.1901 occurred he the army, where he carried service out in the First World War as a captain. After the war it remained as a career officer in the realm resistance. 1909 he married the landowner daughter Lisa Fontaine, from the marriage came out six children, of whom one died early. 1931 it became the Colonel and at the 1. March 1934 to the major general carries. In the years 1933 ago Keitel with the national socialists did not have to do anything, and it was also never party member.
On 1 October 1935 it was appointed as a boss of the armed forces office in the realm war Ministry, carried on 1 January 1936 as the lieutenant general and on 1 August 1937 as the general of the artillery.
After the resignations of Blomberg and Fritsch in the course of the Blomberg Fritsch crisis and the associated restructuring of the command structure armed forces Keitel became on 4 February 1938 boss of the supreme command of the armed forces, an office without direct command authority. It was nominal Hitler's closest a military advisor; among its officer colleagues it applied fast as this blindly devoted (in the mockery it was called "Lakeitel"; it coined/shaped after the conquest of the Benelux states and France the term largest field gentleman of all times for Hitler, who was verulkt as ).
it received the golden party badge of the NSDAP to 1939.
On 22 June 1940 it was in of the signers of the armistice with France. On 19 July 1940 he was appointed from Hitler to the general field marshal. To 9. He ratified May 1945 as an authorized person of the government Karl in Soviet headquarters in Berlin Karl refuge to 7. May in American headquarters in Reims of colonel general Alfred Jodl signed unconditional surrender of the armed forces in relation to the Red Army.
To 13. May 1945 was arrested Keitel of the allied ones in Flensburg and came into war shank.
Keitel had participated in the general and detailed preparations of all German wars of aggression, and as well as each instruction, which arranges war crimes or crimes against the humanity, by him one signed. It was considered as Bewunderer of the Hitler "genius "and implemented its instructions mostly without opposition. If it rejected first the attack on the Soviet Union still for military reasons, it was awake then however all the more eagerly over the radical observance for instance the commissioner instruction or the decrees to the mass murders in the occupied areas.
The material available against it was so conclusive that Keitels whole case in the process could be summarized against the main war criminals in an appraisal on five sides. , And the proofs were in such a manner extreme against him so crushing its acts that the defense feared, however because of him could the supreme command of the armed forces and the general staff as the criminal organization be explained. The consultation of its case was also the shortest.
On 2 October 1946 he was explained for guilty in accordance with all four charges and condemned as death by the strand. On 12 October 1946 it came to a short discussion, because the Frenchmen and also it insisted on the fact that it am shot: Officers are shot, are not On 16 October 1946 the death sentence was executed by the strand.
The general of the infantry Bodewin Keitel (1888 - 1953), 1938 to 1942 boss of the office for army personnel, was its younger brother.
William Keitel: My life, Berlin 1998, quintessence publishing house GmbH William General field marshal Keitel, Verbrecher or , High-speed brook, Bublies publishing house.
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