es: August Wilhelm Ambros

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es: Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich

es: Wilhelm von Humboldt

es: Wilhelm Ostwald

es: Wilhelm Busch

es: Wilhelm Grimm

es: Wilhelm Canaris

es: Carl Wilhelm Scheele

es: Wilhelm Ackermann

es: Wilhelm Marr

es: August Wilhelm Zumpt

es: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

es: Wilhelm Bleek

es: Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

es: Carl Wilhelm Siemens

es: Carl Wilhelm Wirtz

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* 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

Wilhelm Keitel wrote his memoirs in the six weeks before he was hanged ; they have been published later in few editions, for example " The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel: Chief of the German High Command, 1938 – 1945 " edited by Walter Görlitz, ISBN 978-0-8154-1072-0.

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

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