Wilhelm keitel biography
Wilhelm Keitel
Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (born 22 September 1882 in Helmscherode, Duchy Of Brunswick, Germany – died 16 October 1946 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany) was a Germanfield marshal, a Naziwar criminal and the chief of the Wehrmacht between 1938 and 1945. He was one of the 24 accused of the Nuremberg Trials and hanged in 1946.
Life
[change | change source]Early life and career
[change | change source]Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel was born on 22 September 1882 in Helmscherode in the Duchy Of Brunswick (today Lower Saxony). He joined the Imperial German Army in 1901, aged 19 .
During World War I, Keitel served as a infantry soldier in the Military on the Western Front and took part in the fighting in Flanders, where he was wounded a lot.
During Nazi era
[change | change source]From 1919 to 1933, under Weimar Republic, Keitel was part of the Reichswehr German Army as a Junior Army Officer In 1934, he was promoted to the Senior army offic Erwin rommel!