" Strategy, Tactics, and Turf Wars: Tirpitz and the Oberkommando der Marine, 1892 – 1895 ," Journal of Military History, Oct 2002, Vol.

The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( OKW ), the overall command for all German military forces, ordered reductions in raw and steel materials for armament production.

The Luftwaffes performance was as the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe had hoped.

The Oberkommando der Luftwaffe failed to construct a strategy, instead its command style was reactionary, and its measures not as effective without thorough planning.

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The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( Supreme High Command of the Armed Forces or OKW ) commanded OKH only in theory.

For commanding the navy and the air force, Third Reich had also the Oberkommando der Marine ( OKM ) and the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe ( OKL ) respectively.

The position of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( OKW )

* Wilhelm Keitel — Generalfeldmarschall, head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht.

As head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( Supreme Command of the Armed Forces ) and de facto war minister under Adolf Hitler, he was one of Germany's most senior military leaders during World War II.

In the following year, after the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair, the Ministry of War ( Reichskriegsministerium ) was replaced by the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces ( Oberkommando der Wehrmacht or OKW ), and Keitel was appointed as its chief.

The command flag for a Generalfeldmarschall as the Chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( 1941 – 1945 )

There was even more fragmentation since the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe operations had their own commands ( Oberkommando der Marine ( OKM ) and Oberkommando der Luftwaffe ( OKL )) which, while theoretically subordinate, were largely independent from the OKW or the OBW.

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This created a situation such that by 1942 the OKW held the de facto command of Western forces while the Army High Command ( Oberkommando des Heeres ) ( OKH ) exercised de facto command of the Eastern Front.

Hitler sanctioned the order on 24 May with the support of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( OKW ).

Hitler sent the chief of staff of the Armed Forces Supreme Command ( Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, OKW ), General Wilhelm Keitel, to Rundstedt's headquarters, to urge caution.

Peter Hoffmann's biography of Hitler assassination conspirator Claus Graf von Stauffenberg (" Stauffenberg, A Family History ," 1992 ) indicates that after the failure of Stauffenberg's bomb plot in July 1944, Gisevius went into hiding until January 23, 1945, when he escaped to Switzerland by using a passport that had belonged to Carl Deichmann, a brother-in-law of German Count Helmuth James von Moltke, who was a specialist in international law serving in the legal branch of the Foreign Countries Group of the OKW ( Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, " Supreme Command of the Armed Forces ").

The Oberkommando der Luftwaffe ( OKW ) appointed the more politically acceptable Gordon Gollob, a National Socialist supporter, to succeed him as General der Jagdflieger on 23 January.

General Alfred Jodl, chief of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( OKW ) operations, presented Hitler with a formal plan to cut off Britain from its eastern empire by invading Spain, Gibraltar, North Africa, and the Suez Canal instead of invading the British Isles.

The order for the operation was issued by Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( OKW ; Supreme Command of the Armed Forces ) to Oberkommando des Heeres ( OKH ; Army High Command ) and Oberkommando der Luftwaffe ( OKL ; Air Force High Command ) on 6 February 1941.

The armed forces command structure was changed by Hitler in 1938, with an Armed Forces HQ ( the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, usually contracted to OKW, placed over the army command Oberkommando des Heeres or OKH, and the other service commands and almost entirely displacing the Reich War Ministry.

Moltke was immediately drafted at the beginning of the Polish campaign by the Abwehr — specifically, the High Command of the Armed Forces ( Oberkommando der Wehrmacht — OKW ), Counter-Intelligence Service, Foreign Division — under Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, as an expert in martial law and international public law.

During July 1941, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( OKW, or German High Command ) displayed a lack of coherent strategy.

In this sense Green can be seen as a worst case scenario for the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( OKW ).

Walter Warlimont ( born 3 October 1894 in Osnabrück, Germany ; died 9 October 1976 in Kreuth near the Tegernsee ) was a German officer and war criminal known for his role as a deputy chief in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( OKW ), Germany's Supreme Armed Forces Command during World War II.

Hitler used the situation to transfer the duties of the Ministry of War ( Reichskriegsministerium ) to a new organization — the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces ( Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, or OKW )— and Wilhelm Keitel, who became the new head of the OKW on 4 February 1938.