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	Wilhelm Keitel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (September 22, 1882 – October 16, 1946) was a German Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) and a senior military leader during World War II.
		The son of Carl Keitel, a middle-class landowner, he was born in Helmscherode, Brunswick, Germany.
		In 1937, Keitel received a promotion to General, and in the following year, in the wake of the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair and the replacement of the Reichskriegsministerium (Reich War Ministry) with the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, a.k.a.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilhelm_Keitel (681 words)

	The World at War - Keitel
		Wilhelm Keitel was born on the family estate at Helmscherode in Brunswick on 22 September 1883.
		Much to his displeasure, Keitel was obliged by the mutinous Marines to display the red flag of revolution on his official car as he tried to arrange the details of his Corps retreat at the end of the war.
		It was while Keitel was on leave from the Army that he learned on January 30, 1933 that the aged President of the Republic, Field-Marshal von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler to be Chancellor of the Reich.
	worldatwar.net /biography/k/keitel (1251 words)

	Wilhelm Keitel
		Keitel emphasized that it was the function of all members of the Reich Defense Council to use all available resources economically and to ask for only such funds and raw materials as were absolutely and exclusively needed for the defense of the Reich.
		Keitel's connection with the forced labor program began at a meeting with Hitler on 23 May 1939, when it was announced that Poland would be invaded, and also that non-German populations would be available as a source of labor.
		Keitel was present at the interview between Hitler and Hacha at the Reich Chancellery on 15 March 1939, when the Czech representatives delivered their country to Hitler, after hours of duress, which included the threat of immediate bombing of Prague.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/Keitel.html (6399 words)

	Franz Halder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Around this date Gen. Wilhelm Keitel was attempting to reorganize the entire upper leadership of the German Army.
		Keitel had asked Halder to become Chief of the General Staff (Oberquartiermeister of operations, training and supply; O.Qu.I) and report to Gen. Walther von Reichenau.
		As Keitel recognized Halder’s superior military planning skills, Keitel met with Hitler and enticed him to appoint Gen. Walther von Brauchitsch as commander-in-chief of the German Army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franz_Halder (1474 words)

	Judgment at Nuremberg: Wilhelm Keitel
		Keitel made the military and other arrangements and Jodl's diary noted “the effect is quick and strong.” When Schuschnigg called his plebiscite, Keitel that night briefed Hitler and his generals, and Hitler issued “Case Otto” which Keitel initialled.
		Keitel was present on 23rd May, 1939, when Hitler announced his decision " to attack Poland at the first suitable opportunity." Already he had signed the directive requiring the Wehrmacht to submit its “Fall Weiss” timetable to OKW by 1st May.
		Keitel does not remember the Lahousen conversation, but admits there was such a policy and that he had protested without effect to Hitler about it.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/JudgeKeitel.html (1100 words)

	Hitler's Henchmen, Wilhelm Keitel
		General Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel was Chief of Staff of the High Command from 1938 to 1945 and one of Hitlers closest military advisers.
		On 13 May 1941 Keitel, as Chief of OKW, signed an order from the Fuehrer's Headquarters providing that Russian civilians suspected of offenses against German troops should be shot or ruthlessly punished without a military trial, and that prosecution of German soldiers for offenses against Russian civilians was not required.
		Wilhelm Keitel was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and hanged in Nuremberg prison on 16 October 1946.
	www.shoah.dk /Henchmen/jpg_wkeitel.htm (167 words)

	Wilhelm Keitel
		Keitel made the military and other arrangements, and Jodl's diary noted "the effect is quick and strong." When Schuschnigg called his plebiscite, Keitel that night briefed Hitler and his generals, and Hitler issued "Case Otto" which Keitel initialed.
		Keitel signed many directives and memoranda on "Fall Gruen", including the directive of 30th May, containing Hitler's statement: "It is my unalterable decision to smash Czechoslovakia by military action in the near future." After Munich, Keitel initialed Hitler's directive for the attack on Czechoslovakia, and issued two supplements.
		Defendant Wilhelm Keitel, on the counts of the Indictment on which you have been convicted, the International Military Tribunal sentences you to death by hanging.
	www.adolfhitler.ws /lib/nsdap/Keitel.html (2497 words)

	Wilhelm Keitel
		Keitel had reached the rank of captain by the outbreak of the First World War.
		Keitel was impressed and became a devoted supporter of the new leader.
		In Keitel, Hitler found exactly the type of officer he was seeking: someone who would carry out his commands to the letter and without question, a yes-man who would be content to be merely a glorified executive officer, without independent command prerogatives.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERkeitel.htm (1440 words)

	Axis History Forum :: View topic - IMT judgment against Wilhelm Keitel
		Keitel signed many directives and memoranda on "Fall Gruen," including the directive of 30 May, containing Hitler's statement: "It is my unalterable decision to smash Czechoslovakia by military action in the near future." After Munich, Keitel initialed Hitler's directive for the attack on Czechoslovakia and issued two supplements.
		Keitel was present on 23 May 1939 when Hitler announced his decision "to attack Poland at the first suitable opportunity." Already he had signed the directive requiring the Wehrmacht to submit its "Fall Weiss" timetable to OKW by 1 May.
		On 16 September 1941, Keitel ordered that attacks on soldiers in the East should be met by putting to death 50 to 100 Communists for one German soldier, with the comment that human life was less than nothing in the East.
	forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=29333 (1396 words)

	Wilhelm Keitel Biography / Biography of Wilhelm Keitel World of Criminal Justice Biography
		Wilhelm Keitel was a German field marshal and head of the German high command during World War II.
		Keitel was born on September 22, 1882 in Helmscherode, Germany.
		Keitel entered the army in 1901 and was commissioned an officer in a field artillery regiment.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-wilhelm-keitel-cri (247 words)

	Wilhelm Keitel, Nuremberg Charges, 1945
		He said also that Keitel was liaison between the council and the armed forces, it being primarily his duty to coordinate the measures for civilian defense in the area of administration and economy with the genuine military measures for the defense of the Reich.
		Keitel's responsibility for the criminal treatment of Jews is apparent from his own statement that the struggle against Bol-shevism necessitated a ruthless proceeding against the Jews; the Wehrmacht was 'not to use them for any service, but they could be placed in labor columns under German supervision.
		Keitel and Jodl were both present (872-PS).On 1 March 1941 an OKW map was prepared to show the intended division of occupied Russian territory.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/Keitel1.htm (6455 words)

	Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Normandy 1944
		Keitel participated in all major conferences, dictated the terms of the French surrender in June 1940, and signed operational orders—including directives authorizing the shooting of commandos or political commissars taken prisoner in uniform and other directives making it possible to detain civilians without due process.
		Keitel was present, though not injured, at the bombing of Hitler's field headquarters in the July Plot.
		Keitel was generally regarded as a weak officer who had little tactical military experience.
	www.britanica.com /dday/article-9044991 (361 words)

	The Holocaust Chronicle PROLOGUE: Roots of the Holocaust, page 650
		Wilhelm Keitel was the chief of staff of the High Command of the German Armed Forces from 1938 until the collapse of the Nazi empire.
		His complete subservience to Hitler and willingness to condone mass murder are the primary reasons why Keitel was sentenced to death by the Nuremberg Tribunal in October 1946.
		A professional soldier who was wounded in the First World War, Keitel rose through the ranks during the 1920s and 1930s, and was appointed to the top position in the German military in February 1938.
	www.holocaustchronicle.org /staticpages/650.html (441 words)

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		Synopsis: The Divine Court-Martial of Field-Marshal Keitel Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, the senior armed forces officer of Nazi Germany, 1938-1945, is awakened to stand trial for war crimes in a heavenly court.
		After calling the first case, Keitel sinks to his knees as he begins mentally to re-enact the agony of the next defendant, a corporal who was ordered by his lieutenant to execute an elderly Russian, his daughter, and her baby.
		Keitel sat back down, muttering, “I hope I have made the right choice.” “Call for one angel for defense counsel, and a demon as prosecutor!” thundered the bailiff into the blurry distance behind the judges.
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	Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, An Opponent
		Still today Wilhelm Canaris is the number one mystery man of the Nazi regime under Hitler.
		Canaris told Keitel "The world, will one day hold the Wehrmacht responsible for these methods since these things are taking place under its nose".
		Wilhelm Canaris, pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Major General Hans Oster, Judge Advocate General Carl Sack, Captain Ludwig Gehre - all were ordered to remove their clothing and were led down the steps under the trees to the secluded place of execution before hooting SS guards.
	www.shoah.dk /Hitler/new_page_19.htm (980 words)

	Wilhelm Keitel at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wilhelm Keitel (September 22, 1882 - October 16, 1946) was a German Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) and a senior military leader during World War II.
		He was born in Helmscherode, Germany, the son of the landowner Carl Keitel.
		Keitel, signing the ratified surrender terms for the German Army in Berlin, 5 May 1945
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Wilhelm_Keitel.html (459 words)

	WILHELM KEITEL - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 01/27/1946
		Wilhelm Keitel, one of Hitler's most loyal and trusted lieutenants, became Chief of Staff of the armed forces office, equivalent to Minister of War, in 1935.
		Erwin Lahousen, a star prosecution witness in the war crimes trial, testified that Keitel told him on 12th September, 1939, while aboard Hitler's headquarters train, that the Polish intelligentsia, nobility and Jews were to be liquidated.
		Keitel was convicted at Nuremberg and, on October 16, 1946, he and nine other defendants sentenced to death were hanged.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/3_2001/law/WILHELM_KEITEL.htm (323 words)

	Avalon Project : Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Volume 2 Chapter XVI Part 4
		Keitel and Jodl and Canaris were instructed to keep up the military pressure against Austria by simulating military measures until 15 February.
		The memoranda and correspondence are frequently signed or initialed by Keitel, and it is clear that he knew of Hitler's intention to use force against Czechoslovakia and made the plans to carry out that intention.
		On 21 May 1944 Keitel received a note from WFST to the effect that Hitler had decided that enemy fliers who had been forced down should be shot without court-martial, if they had engaged in "acts of terror".
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/imt/document/nca_vol2/chap16_part04.htm (9357 words)

	Wilhelm Canaris
		Still today Wilhelm Canaris is the number one mystery man of the Nazi regime under Hitler - a man historians hardly can classify.
		While he highly protected and motivated the opposition members who were eager to fight against Hitler, he was also hunting them as conspirators - one of the many contradictions he was forced to live with in order to stay in control of the Abwehr.
		Wilhelm Canaris, born January 1, 1887, in Aplerbeck, Germany, was celebrated as a war hero during the First World War for his exploits as a submarine captain, and he later became a top military spy for Germany.
	auschwitz.dk /Canaris/id2.htm (1122 words)

	Wilhelm Keitel Biography / Biography of Wilhelm Keitel Main Biography
		German Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel (1882-1946), Adolf Hitler's senior military advisor during World War II, was the individual who personally conducted the armistice agreement with the French.
		He was eventually convicted for crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials and subsequently hung as a war criminal in late 1946.
		Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustave Keitel was born on September 22, 1882 in the village of Helmschrode, which was located in Harz Mountains portion of the Braunschweig province of Germany.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-wilhelm-keitel (247 words)

	Wilhelm Keitel -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Also known as the Keitel Order, the decree was signed by Wilhelm Keitel, chief of...
		Perhaps the major German Romantic conductor of the 20th century, Wilhelm Furtwängler is remembered primarily for his long association with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, which lasted, except for two brief interludes, from 1922 until his death.
		The founder of experimental psychology was the German philosopher, physiologist, and psychologist Wilhelm Wundt.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9044991 (664 words)

	NEW EUROPEAN FESTIVAL GMBH
		Wilhelm Keitel, born in Schwäbisch Hall, studied with Wolfgang Trommer in Dusseldorf, Charles Mackeras in Vienna, as well as with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa at the Tanglewood Festival in Massachusetts, USA.
		In 1986 Wilhelm Keitel served as assistant to Zoltan Pesko at the Grand Opera in Paris and as a guest conductor at several opera houses in Germany and Switzerland.
		The singers Wilhelm Keitel worked with were among others Helen Kwon, Bruna Baglioni, Vesselina Kasarova, Claudio Otelli, Antonio Salvadori, Gabriele Monici, Dino di Domenico and Ezio Maria Tisi.
	www.new-european-festival.de /wk_english.html (470 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Keitel Wilhelm
		He entered the army in 1901 and served as a captain in...
		Among the accused were the National Socialist (Nazi Party) leaders Hermann Wilhelm Göring and Rudolf Hess, the diplomat Joachim von Ribbentrop, the...
		Wien, Wilhelm (1864-1928), German physicist and Nobel laureate, noted for his work on flbody radiation (Heat Transfer).
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Keitel_Wilhelm.html (111 words)

	Amazon.com: The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel: Books: Walter Gorlitz,Walter Gorlitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At Nuremburg, Keitel was sentenced to death by hanging; a fate which Keitel knew awaited him as soon as he was informed of the trial.
		The fate that Keitel did not attempt suicide to escape the trial shows us that in the end, Keitel was an honorable man whose only crime was to let himself fall totally under the spell of a Hitler.
		Granted, Field Marshal Keitel was a rather pathetic and hollow man, but even a man such as he did not deserve to see is memoirs so badly taken care of by a bad publishing company and a clueless editor.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0815410727?v=glance (1357 words)

	Nuremberg War Crime Trials
		Wilhelm Keitel - General Field Marshal and Chief of Staff of the German High Command of the Armed Forces who condoned mass murder by the SS.
		"...Keitel was present on May 23, 1939, when Hitler announced his decision 'to attack Poland at the first suitable opportunity.' Already he had signed the directive requiring the Wehrmacht to submit its 'Fall Weiss' timetable (for the attack on Poland) to OKW (Oberkommando Der Wehrmacht - Armed Forces High Command) on May 1...
		Wilhelm Frick - Nazi Minister of the Interior from 1933 to 1943, who originated the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 which deprived German Jews of their rights as citizens.
	www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/holocaust/h-nurem.htm (4991 words)

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