Wilhelm Keitel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wilhelm Keitel

German general

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1882

Place of Birth: Helmscherode, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 16-Oct-1946

Profession: military personnel, politician, military officer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (22 September 1882 – 16 October 1946) was a German field marshal and war criminal during the Nazi era who served as Chief of the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, OKW) during World War II.
In this capacity, Keitel signed a number of criminal orders and directives that led to a war of unprecedented brutality and criminality. Keitel's rise to the Wehrmacht high command began with his appointment as the head of the Armed Forces Office at the Reich Ministry of War in 1935.
After Hitler took command of the Wehrmacht in 1938, he replaced the ministry with the OKW, with Keitel as its chief.
Keitel was well known and reviled as Hitler's habitual "yes-man" among his military colleagues. Following the war, Keitel was indicted by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg as one of the "major war criminals".
He was found guilty on all counts of the indictment: crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, criminal conspiracy, and war crimes.
Keitel was sentenced to death and executed by hanging in 1946.