Plans to form a Landsturm national militia in Eastern Germany as a last resort to boost fighting strength initially came from Oberkommando des Heeres chief General Heinz Guderian in 1944.

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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.

During the idle months of the so-called Phoney War, preceding the Battle of France ( 1939 – 40 ), he had already been transferred to the organizational department of the Oberkommando des Heeres, the German army high command, which directed the operations on the Eastern Front.

Beck was a former Chief-of-Staff of the German Army High Command ( Oberkommando des Heeres, OKH ).

Guderian was transferred to the Oberkommando des Heeres ( OKH ) reserve pool, his chances of being promoted to Feldmarschall, which depended on Hitler's personal decision, possibly ruined forever.

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.

Staff -, maintenance-and guardtroops of Hitler's headquarter Wolfsschanze and the Oberkommando des Heeres ( OKH, army highcommand ) were also based in or nearby Lötzen.

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.

The Oberkommando des Heeres expected the Soviets to launch a major Eastern Front offensive in the summer of 1944.

This weakened the traditional Army High Command ( Oberkommando des Heeres, or OKH ) which was now subordinated to the OKW.

Halder then accepted becoming Chief of the General Staff of the Army ( Oberkommando des Heeres ) on 1 September 1938, and succeeded General Ludwig Beck.

* Oberkommando des Heeres ( OKH )-" High Command of the Army " from 1936 to 1945.

* OKH – Oberkommando des Heeres, or High Command of the Army

* Oberkommando des Heeres ( OKH ) — " High Command of the Army " and Army General Staff from 1936 to 1945.

The army group was subordinated to the Oberkommando des Heeres ( OKH ), the German army high command, and coordinated the operations of attached separate army corps, reserve formations, rear services and logistics.

Fritsch was promoted to Commander-in-Chief of the Army ( Oberkommando des Heeres, or OKH ), in February 1934 partly because Hitler saw him as a supporter of his regime and partly because the Defence Minister Werner von Blomberg valued Fritsch for his professionalism.

Based on Steiner's assessment, Heinrici called Hans Krebs, Chief of Staff of the German General Staff of the High Command of the Army ( Oberkommando des Heeres or OKH ), and told him that the plan could not be implemented.

At the end of August, the German Army High Command ( Oberkommando des Heeres, or OKH ) had the option of either continuing the advance on Moscow, or putting that goal aside temporarily in favor of assisting the other two army groups ( North and South ) both of which lagged behind.

The Officer Reserve was part of the Army High Command ( Oberkommando des Heeres or OKH ).

The Oberkommando des Heeres ( OKH ) issued orders that Crimea was to be taken as soon as possible to prevent attacks on Romanian oil supplies, which fed the German military.

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

At this time, he was assigned to the Oberkommando des Heeres ( Army High Command ; OKH ), and formed along with von Manstein and Generalfeldmarshall Gerd von Rundstedt a " Working Staff " for the development of a plan for the invasion.

Like other conservative resisters, Hoepner thought Hitler's strategic decisions would lead to the ruin of Germany, which was the motivation in the September 1938 plot, in which Hoepner was supposed to use his armored division to impose the surrendering of Hitler's personal guard, the SS Leibstandarte, and another in October – November 1939, after war had already begun-both involving the very top levels of the Abwehr and the High Command, the Oberkommando des Heeres, or OKH.

After the Nazi Machtergreifung, when the Reichswehr was recreated as the Wehrmacht in 1935, the ministry was renamed Reichskriegsministerium ( Reich Ministry of War ); also, the Heeresleitung became the Oberkommando des Heeres ( OKH ), the Marineleitung became the Oberkommando der Marine ( OKM ) and the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe ( OKL ) was newly created.

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.

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 Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( OKW ) ( English: " Supreme Command of the Armed Forces ") was part of the command structure of the armed forces ( Wehrmacht ) of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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.

Meanwhile, Colonel General Kurt Student, commander of the Fallschirmjaeger, the German airborne forces, received orders from Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, to immediately move from Berlin and proceed to the Netherlands, where he would collect all available units and build a front near the Albert Canal, which was to be held at all costs.

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 ").

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.

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.

The Oberkommando der Marine ( OKM ) was Nazi Germany's Naval High Command and the highest administrative and command authority of the Kriegsmarine.

After 4 February 1938, its name in title was Foreign Affairs / Defence Office of the Armed Forces High Command ( Amt Ausland / Abwehr im Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ).

The 6th Army was commanded by the Oberkommando der 6.

In the climax of Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, soldiers trap, surround, and then assassinate both Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and his entire High Command ( the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ) in a burning Paris, France movie theater in an alternate 1944, theoretically ending the war.

That same year, he made a proposal to the Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine ( OKM – Naval High Command ) suggesting that a submarine powered by one of these engines would have considerable speed advantages over the conventional combination of diesel engine ( s ) for surface running and electric motor ( s ) while submerged.

The German Armed Forces High Command ( Oberkommando der Wehrmacht )— also concerned by Rommel ′ s actions — sent General Friedrich Paulus to Africa to investigate the situation.

On April 22, 1945 Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz moved the headquarters of the Naval High Command ( Oberkommando der Marine ) there.

Staff officers were trained to solve operational problems, and the lack of doctrine and reluctance of the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe ( OKL = High Command of the Air Force ) to micromanage gave Sperrle and Richthofen a free hand to devise solutions.

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

On the basis of this memorandum, Hitler developed the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( High command of the armed forces ), with Hitler as supreme commander.

In response, the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe ( OLK or Air Force High Command ) sent Fliegerkorps X ( Flying Corps Ten ) to Sicily, which arrived in January 1941, to strike at naval forces in and around Malta, as well as RAF positions on the island to ease the passage of supplies.

* Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( OKW )-" High Command of the Armed Forces ".