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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

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Early life and career

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Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel was born on 22 September 1882 in Helmscherode in the Duchy Of Brunswick (today Lower Saxony).

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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

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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 Wilhelm Keitel | Holocaust Encyclopedia VOROP