Word: keitel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilhelm Keitel was not an easy man last week. Uneasy friend of Adolf Hitler, uneasy advocate of the great Russian adventure, the Chief of the Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces had plenty of worries...
Advance Too Easy? After the first week of fighting, Wilhelm Keitel was almost positive his men had already whipped the Russians. Now, as the third week began, there was no question of it, but he was not quite so sure that the whipping would stick...
Figures Too High? Field Marshal Keitel must have been a little uneasy about the way things were getting out of hand mathematically. The campaign was at best less than half over and his communiques had already claimed nearly twice as many planes as the High Command had estimated the Russians to have. It claimed over 7,000; had estimated about 4,000. And yet, day by day, the Russian Air Force continued to operate and the Luftwaffe to shoot it down. At week's end the High Command communique announced: "The Soviet Air Force lost 281 planes yesterday, compared...
That the General Staff wanted war with Russia was indicated by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel's list of military grievances, which included many alleged frontier violations. With the power now held by the Army in Germany, the suddenness with which war was declared showed that Germany could be satisfied with nothing less than destruction of Russia as a power...
...Brennero to confer with Adolf Hitler. It was the sixth time the two dictators had met since World War II began. To this conference they brought not only their Foreign Ministers, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Count Galeazzo Ciano, but also the chiefs of their high command, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and General Ugo Cavallero. WThat they planned the world would soon know, for each previous meeting has marked a new stage of the war. For the present all that Berlin and Rome announced was "complete agreement...