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Oct 1, 2002 · Family: Wilhelm Keitel married Lisa Fontaine in April 1909 – three sons (Karl-Heinz, Ernst-Wilhelm, Hans-Georg) and three daughters, one of whom died early from an incurable disease (Nona and Erika). His oldest son, Karl-Heinz, married Dorthea von Blomberg, the daughter of Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg, in May 1938.
Feb 16, 2021 · Ernst Wilhelm Keitel. English (default): Keitel, German: Major Ernst Wilhelm Keitel. Birthdate: 1915. Death: October 15, 1956 (40-41) Immediate Family: Son of Wilhelm Bodewin Keitel and Lisa Fontaine. Brother of Nona Keitel; Erika Keitel; Karl-Heinz Keitel; Hans Georg Keitel and N. N. Fontaine.
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Wilhelm Keitel was born near Bad Gandersheim in what is today the state of Lower Saxony, Germany, on September 22, 1882. In 1901, he joined the Prussian army as an artillery officer. During World War I, Keitel served on the western front as a battery commander and then staff officer. He was seriously wounded in Flanders in 1914. Following World War...
In 1935, on advice from Commander-in-Chief General Werner von Fritsch, Keitel was promoted to Major General and in 1937 to Colonel General. In 1938, Keitel was appointed head of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht; OKW), that agency which replaced the German War Ministry and which bore responsibility over the army, n...
On May 13, 1945, Keitel was arrested with the rest of the Flensburg Cabinet. Even though his role as the head of the Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces was largely symbolic, Keitel was complicit in the mass atrocities and war crimes committed in the name of the Third Reich, including the genocide of European Jewry. Keitel had signed many de...
The Allies tried Keitel along with other senior Nazis before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Prosecutors indicted Keitel on all four of the main counts: 1. Count 1:Conspiracy to Commit Crimes Against Peace (for planning and executing the war) 2. Count 2:Planning, Initiating, and Waging Wars of Aggression (also, for his role as sen...
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Keitel was made Chief of the OKW, with rank equal to that of Reichsminister. He was also given authorities of the former Minister of War, and continued to perform the administrative duties of that position. (1915-PS; 1954-PS; 3704-PS) In addition to its ministerial functions, the OKW was Hitler's military staff.
Wilhelm Keitel (1882–1946) was Chief of Staff of the German Armed Forces High Command. Keitel was responsible for crimes committed by the armed forces while waging war and authorized the support and participation of German troops in these crimes, including the murder of the European Jews.
Oct 13, 2018 · This is how Robert H. Jackson, American chief prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, described Wilhelm Keitel; during the war the head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW or supreme command of the Wehrmacht) and generally known as a yes man and lickspittle.
Ernst-Wilhelm was Wilhelm Keitel’s second son and he returned with the last transport of POW from Russia, 450 soldiers, on 15-10-1956. For his family, his eldest son, Karl-Heinz Keitel (1914-1968), went on to serve as a divisional commander (Obersturmbannführer (Oberstleutnant) in the Waffen-SS.
