Wilhelm Keitel was not an easy man last week. Uneasy friend of Adolf Hitler, uneasy advocate of the great Russian adventure, the Chief of the Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces had plenty of ...

The thin-lipped, haughty Prussian aristocrat stalked into the floodlighted room, slapped his marshal’s baton down on the table and stared straight ahead. Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of ...

Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Fritzsche, Wilhelm Keitel, Hermann Goring and Julius Streicher — Do you know what they have in common? They weren’t the ones with the top job. They were given ...

At Berchtesgaden one prewar afternoon, Austria’s timid Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg sat under a tree, waiting to be browbeaten. “Nearby Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel peacefully sunned ...

Poker-faced and ramrod-stiff in his military grey, the first of the generals faced the court at Nürnberg last week. In Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel’s defense, there was none of Hermann Göring’s ...