Keitel, Wilhelm
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Birthname | Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel | ||||
born on | 22 September 1882 at 02:00 (= 02:00 AM ) | ||||
Place | Bad Gandersheim, Germany, 51n55, 10e01 | ||||
Timezone | LMT m10e01 (is local mean time) | ||||
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Biography
German Nazi Field Marshall and Chief of Staff of the High Command of the German Armed Forces (OKW), Hitler's closest military advisor and second only to him. He was reviled among his military colleagues as Hitler's habitual "yes-man".
Keitel was 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, later described as a solidly built and square-jawed Prussian. He married Lisa Fontaine on 18 April 1909 and had three sons and two daughters.
In October 1940, he took over the Axis African Command. He condoned measures leading to mass murder in Poland and Russia. Described as hard, unsmiling and mysterious, he was tried by the International Military Tribunal, found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and hanged on 16 October 1946 in Nuremberg Prison.
Before his execution, Keitel published his memoirs which were titled in English as In the Service of the Reich. It was later re-edited as The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel by Walter Görlitz. Another work by Keitel later published in English was named Questionnaire on the Ardennes offensive.
He was played by Scottish actor Kenneth Cranham in Valkyrie, a 2008 historical political war thriller film.
Relationships
- (has as) worker relationship with Stülpnagel, Otto von (born 16 June 1878)
- role played of/by Cranham, Kenneth (born 12 December 1944). Notes: 2008 film "Valkyrie"
Events
Source Notes
B.R. in hand from Steinbrecher.
Categories
- Traits : Body : Size (1.85 m/ 6 ft 1 in)
- Traits : Personality : Bigot (Anti-semitic)
- Family : Childhood : Order of birth (Eldest son)
- Family : Parenting : Kids more than 3 (Five)
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Executed (Hanged)
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Homicide by order (Thousands)
- Vocation : Military : Military career
- Vocation : Politics : Nazi party (Field Marshall, High Command of German Armed Forces)
- Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
- Notable : Famous : Criminal cases (Mass murder of Polish Jews)
- Notable : Book Collection : Crime Collection
- 1882 births
- Birthday 22 September
- Birthplace Bad Gandersheim, GER
- Sun 28 Virgo
- Moon 17 Capricorn
- Asc 18 Leo
- 1946 deaths
- Traits : Body : Size
- Traits : Personality : Bigot
- Family : Childhood : Order of birth
- Family : Parenting : Kids more than 3
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Executed
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Homicide by order
- Vocation : Military : Military career
- Vocation : Politics : Nazi party
- Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
- Notable : Famous : Criminal cases
- Notable : Book Collection : Crime Collection