Word: keitel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Magyars Seethe. Across the border Hungary also seethed. To Budapest hurried the Führer's trouble-shooting Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel. Old Regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy listened to the emissary from the north. Then, under his strong hand, a cabinet of Magyar generals took over. Warned the new Premier. Colonel General Vitez Geza Lakatos: "Hungarians! We must defend our own frontiers. . . . We must no longer think, 'You can trust the Germans to pull...
More Purge. To sweep clean the ranks of his disaffected generals Adolf Hitler needed an iron broom. He found one in the persons of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of Supreme High Command, and Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, a Prussian and a Junker. As head of a newly created Military Court of Honor, the two Field Marshals last week reported their first batch of Army sweepings: four of their fellow officers executed; four dead by suicide; two "deserted to the Bolsheviki"; twelve slated for "elimination" from the Army; many more about to be tried...
...Hitler was merely using the Wehrmacht Court of Honor to humble the Wehrmacht. For the proud officers whom Keitel, Rundstedt and their colleagues indicted, the Nazis had developed a special humiliation: they were to be handed over for trial to a Nazi People's Court...
...example of Hitler's ineptitude as a commander. When Field Marshals von Leeb, List, von Rundstedt, von Bock and von Brauchitsch, Colonel General Haider and many others attempted to point out these mistakes Hitler dismissed them from their posts. . . . The newer generals, however, such as Rommel, Dietl, Schorner, Keitel and others who had not gone through a long military schooling failed to perceive these mistakes...
...Naturally all this evokes discontent among the experienced generals and fans mistrust in Hitler's leadership. But generals who resent such a situation are compelled to be silent, as Field Marshal Keitel declared that all criticism of the German leadership would be punished by death...