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Wilhelm Keitel

Also known as Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel

German field marshal (1882–1946)

AI overview

Wilhelm Keitel was a German military leader who served as a field marshal during World War II and held significant command positions in Nazi Germany's armed forces. He is historically important because of his prominent role in the German military leadership during the war and his subsequent trial and execution for war crimes after the conflict ended.

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Vinony's link graph records 476 inbound references to Wilhelm Keitel, and connects out to capital punishment, war crime and Battle of France.

Vinony files it under 1882 births, 1946 deaths and 19th-century German people.

Vinony links it to 66 Wikipedia language editions.

Person · Open Library

Born: 1882
Died: 1946
Works: 8

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Germany
Active from: 1951-02-02

Discography

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 340
Total plays: 711

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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· 2012 · cited 6,796x

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Quotes

“I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons - all for Germany.”
“I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.”
“I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.”
“Hitler gave us orders - and we believed in him. Then he commits suicide and leaves us to bear the guilt. He should have remained alive to bear his share.”
“It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.”
“Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.”

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Wikidata facts

Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H30220, Wilhelm Keitel.jpg

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Commons category: Wilhelm Keitel
date of birth: 1882-09-22
date of death: 1946-10-16
Commons gallery: Wilhelm Keitel
start of work period: 1901-00-00
name in native language: Wilhelm Keitel
birth name: Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel
P8168: Rädi
end of work period: 1945-00-00
P12749: Totila

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Encyclopedic overview

Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel ( German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈkaɪtl̩]; 22 September 1882 – 16 October 1946) was a German field marshal who held office as chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the high command of Nazi Germany's armed forces, during World War II. He signed a number of criminal orders and directives that led to numerous war crimes.

Keitel's rise to the Wehrmacht high command began with his appointment as the head of the Armed Forces Office at the Reich Ministry of War in 1935. Having taken command of the Wehrmacht in 1938, Adolf Hitler replaced the ministry with the OKW and Keitel became its chief. He was reviled among his military colleagues as Hitler's habitual "yes-man".

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