* 1940 – The " Aufbau Ost " directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.

Bormann exploited the disaster at Stalingrad, and his daily access to Hitler, to persuade him to create a three-man junta representing the State, the Army, and the Party, represented respectively by Hans Lammers, head of the Reich Chancellery, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the OKW ( armed forces high command ), and Bormann, who controlled the Party and access to the Führer.

* 1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.

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** Wilhelm Keitel, German Nazi Generalfeldmarschall ( b. 1882 )

* August 8 – WWII: Wilhelm Keitel signs the " Aufbau Ost " directive, which eventually leads to the invasion of the Soviet Union.

* September 22 – Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal ( d. 1946 )

From an initial aerial victory over a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 on 5 April their tally rose dramatically and the squadron became the focus of Soviet propaganda, so much so that Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel decreed that any French pilot captured would be executed.

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

As part of the reorganization of the military command structure following the Blomberg – Fritsch Affair in early 1938, it was declared that the service chiefs, namely OKW chief Wilhelm Keitel, Army commander Walter von Brauchitsch, Luftwaffe commander Hermann Göring and Raeder were to have the same status as Cabinet ministers and as such, they all started to receive publicly the same pay as a Cabinet member and privately payments from Konto 5 slush fund.

The Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels wanted Raeder and the other high officials of the " grocery ring " like Wilhelm Keitel, Hermann Göring and Hans Lammers who used their positions to ignore rationing when grocery shopping to be punished in order to let the German people know that the elite were suffering like everyone else, but Hitler claimed if the German people learned of the luxurious lifestyles of the elite in the middle of a war that the effect would be fatal to morale.

Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel ( 22 September 1882 – 16 October 1946 ) was a German field marshal ( Generalfeldmarschall ).

When Keitel then heard a radio broadcast about the failed assassination attempt, Keitel, aware his brother Wilhelm had to have been present at the meeting with Hitler in the Wolf's Lair and could conceivably be hurt or dead, had Boehmer immediately found and arrested.

Wilhelm Keitel was somehow not injured or killed in the bomb blast, and also was the only one present at Wolf's Lair assassination not to suffer a perforated eardrum from the bomb blast.

The body of Wilhelm Keitel after being hanged

* Gene Mueller, The Forgotten Field Marshal: Wilhelm Keitel.

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After them, Wilhelm Meinhold wrote The Amber Witch ( 1838 ) and Sidonia von Bork ( 1847 ).

Gradually losing his Catholic faith, he studied literature and philosophy at the universities of Bonn, Würzburg, Freiburg and Heidelberg, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on a minor 19th century romantic dramatist, Wilhelm von Schütz.

Marx wrote for the Young Hegelian journal, the Deutsche-Französische Jahrbücher, in which he criticised the censorship instructions issued by Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.

In the 20th century, Katherine Mansfield, Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein, H. D., Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, and Gale Wilhelm wrote popular works that had same-sex relationships or gender transformations as themes.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Arthur Schopenhauer both wrote of Taoism.

Wilhelm Busch also wrote a number of poems in a similar style to his picture stories.

In Marburg, the brothers dedicated themselves with great enthusiasm to their studies, about which Wilhelm wrote in his autobiography, " the ardor with which we studied Old German helped us overcome the spiritual depression of those days.

In a letter written to his aunt at this time, Wilhelm wrote of their circumstances, " We five people eat only three portions and only once a day ".

This attitude rose even though the philosopher Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel wrote about Forster at the beginning of 19th century:

In 1964, he wrote The Mare's Nest, an account of the German secret weapons program and the Allied intelligence countermeasures against it ; translated the Memoirs of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel in 1965 ( edited by Walter Görlitz ); and in 1967 published Accident: The Death of General Sikorski.

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, a German polymath who wrote primarily in Latin and French.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ( 1646 – 1716 ) was both a philosopher and a mathematician who wrote primarily in Latin and French.

The long s survives in elongated form, and with an italic-style curled descender, as the integral symbol used in calculus ; Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz based the character on the Latin word summa (" sum "), which he wrote ſumma.

Freud wrote to his friend Wilhelm Fliess in 1899: ' Anna has become downright beautiful through naughtiness '.

He also wrote the first biography of Bach ( in 1802 ), one which is of particular value today, as he was still able to correspond directly with Bach's sons Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, and thereby obtained much valuable information that would otherwise have been lost.

Schwartz wrote three novels for Arco Press, one of which, the detective story Sword of Desire, won praise for its takeoff on Wilhelm Reich's orgone therapy, a popular psychotherapeutic technique used during the 1940s and 1950s.

Arthur Schopenhauer wrote the following about Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

But there is an even larger crowd of more anonymous people who wrote obscure and little-read works, sometimes only unpublished manuscripts in libraries or private collections, including Henry Castela, Hans Ludwig von Lichtenstein, Michael Heberer von Bretten, Wilhelm von Boldensele, Pierre Belon du Mans, Vincent Stochove, Christophe Harant, Gilles Fermanel, Robert Fauvel, Jean Palerne Foresien, Willian Lithgow, Joos van Ghistele, etc.

Wilhelm Dilthey later wrote that the protagonists in the Colloquium anticipate those of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan der Weise.

In his biography of Liebenfels ( Der Mann, der Hitler die Ideen gab, Munich 1985 ), the Viennese psychologist and author Wilhelm Dahm wrote: " The Thule Gesellschaft name originated from mythical Thule, a Nordic equivalent of the vanished culture of Atlantis.

Count von Luckner wrote the introduction for Alfred von Niezychowski's book The Cruise of the Kronprinz Wilhelm, 1928, published by Doubleday & Company, about the auxiliary cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm ( Note: though she had the same name, this was a different ship from the Kronprinz Wilhelm that Count von Luckner was on during the Battle of Jutland )