Wilhelm Keitel was not an easy man last week. Uneasy friend of Adolf Hitler, uneasy advocate of the great Russian adventure, the Chief of the Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces had plenty of ...

Keitel blames all on Hitler NUREMBERG, April 8, 1946 (UP) -- Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, his voice quivering and his clenched fists pounding the witness box rail, testified today that he issued blanket ...

The German Instrument of Surrender was signed ending the Second World War in front of Marshal Georgy Zhukov on behalf of the Supreme High Command of the Red Army, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur William ...

Adolf Hitler is shown, center, with Col. Gen. Wilhelm Keitel, left, and Col. Gen. Walther von Brauchitsch, right, on June 21, 1940. (Associated Press) Legends die hard. One of the most stubborn is the ...

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Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Fritzsche, Wilhelm Keitel, Hermann Goring and Julius Streicher — Do you know what they have in common? They weren’t the ones with the top job. They were given ...

Eighty years ago this week, Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signed Germany's unconditional surrender, marking the end of the Second World War in Europe. For the battle-hardened servicemen who had spent ...