Word: keitel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dictator, who had bound his people to their second disastrous alliance with Germany, proceeded the titular and real rulers of Bulgaria: the boy King Simeon II, the royal family, the Cabinet of Germanophile Premier Bogdan Filoff and, not least, the representatives of Adolf Hitler-portly Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, stern Fleet Admiral Erich Raeder...
...Berlin dispatch announced the German Government in &#quot;permanent session&#quot; at Adolf Hitler's field headquarters. Present: Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, Ribbentrop, Munitions Minister Speer, Chief of Staff Keitel, Grand Admiral Doenitz, Air Marshal Milch, Generals Zeitzler and Jodl of the General Staff. (Notable absentee: General Walther von Brauchitsch, former CINC of the Wehrmacht, who disappeared from the Russian front last January. Might he become Germany's Badoglio...
Spanish correspondents in Berlin, reporting the meeting, said that "powers of enormous magnitude" had been given to Hermann Göring; that a triumvirate of Göring, Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel and Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz was now the "real head of Germany." Allied capitals were skeptical...
From the meeting Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and General Keitel reportedly hurried to Verona to talk with Italy's new Foreign Minister, Raffaele Guariglia. The Chief of the Italian General Staff, General Vittorio Ambrosio, joined them, "on the germans' invitation," in "important discussions." From the German point of view these discussions had only two objects: maximum, to hold the Badoglio Government to its Axis alliance for war and/or peace; minimum, to keep Italy in the war long enough for Germany to get forces and matériel down through the Brenner to hold a de fensive line...
There was prophecy in this alignment, but its fulfillment was delayed. Rundstedt was like Bock and Leeb, but there were other variations from the Junker pattern. Broad-faced Brauchitsch truckled to Hitler, became Commander in Chief of the German Army in 1938. Jaunty, rakehell Keitel made compromises, became Chief of the Supreme Command. Haider became Chief of the General Staff...