Word: keitel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professional soldiers among the 22 prisoners were ready to maintain that orders are orders in any army. Keitel sniffed enough support for this theory to observe: "I am sure there are lots of sympathizers to my way of thinking. I am told that the Army & Navy Journal [whose contents he studies] tends to agree with me." Said Grossadmiral Doenitz' lawyer: "My client would have a good chance to be acquitted if the judges were Allied naval officers." The other accused were feverishly working on defense arguments ranging from blaming it all on Hitler to proving that once they were...
Individual defendants were inexorably linked to definite crimes against humanity. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel was not always engrossed in high strategy; he assisted in rounding up slave labor by order ing Polish homes burned. Alfred Rosenberg, the philosopher, was involved in an order that babies born to Russian women on slave-labor trains be thrown from the windows. Albert Speer, Director of War Production, urged more SS brutality to accelerate the working pace of the slaves...
...Hitler, with the full knowledge and approval of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, had ordered the systematic killing of war prisoners on the eastern front. The executions were not to take place in front of German soldiers, because that would be bad for their morale. (Keitel, one of Hitler's most devoted yes-generals, who had never succeeded in crashing the tight circle of "real" Junkers, had defended himself through his lawyer by declaring that he had merely done his ordinary duties as a soldier.) As Lahousen spoke, he squirmed uncomfortably. Earlier in the trial, he had complained...
...meeting with Hitler in 1939, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Keitel outlined the kind of strategic terror they intended to use in the Polish war. Plans were made for the complete liquidation of Poland's intelligentsia, nobility, clergy and resistance movements. Ribbentrop's pet project was a "spontaneous" revolt of Ukrainians, during the course of which a considerable number of Poles would be slaughtered...
...accused in the dock were gripped by the horror they had created. Hess watched in tense fascination. Göring reddened when the film was three-quarters through, gazed fixedly at his lap until the film was over. Keitel mopped his brow and covered his eyes. Alfred Rosenberg, the philosopher, looked away frequently, nervously picked with his nails at splinters in the guard rail before him. Ribbentrop remained calm, shook his head in disbelief. Hans Frank, ex-Governor General of Poland, wept...