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Wilhelm Keitel
German field marshal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 German field marshal, a Nazi war 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.
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