Wilhelm Keitel
Military Person
1882 – 1946
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Who was Wilhelm Keitel?
Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel was a German field marshal. As head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and de facto war minister under Adolf Hitler, he was one of Germany's most senior military leaders during World War II. At the Allied court at Nuremberg he was tried, sentenced to death and hanged as a war criminal. He was the second highest-ranking German soldier to be tried at Nuremberg after Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring.
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- Born
- Sep 22, 1882
Bad Gandersheim - Also known as
- Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel
- Field Marshal Keitl
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Lisa Fontaine
(1909/04 - 1946/10/16)
- Lisa Fontaine
- Children
- Nationality
- Germany
- Nazi Germany
- German Empire
- Weimar Republic
- Employment
- Qualcomm
- Died
- Oct 16, 1946
Nuremberg
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on July 23, 2013
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