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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understand it, Rundstedt and other generals have been in close confinement since the end of the war. Judging from the writings of Captain Liddell Hart, Rundstedt, at least, was primarily a military man, unlike Keitel, Jodl, etc. If this be the case, the treatment given and in store for him appears to lack justice. All that is necessary to illustrate this point is enough imagination to contemplate a defeat for this country at some time, whereupon the then Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton and Hodges would promptly find themselves "war criminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

When Field Marshal General Keitel was sentenced as a war criminal, General Ike Eisenhower was asked: Do you think you would have been hanged if the Nazis had won the war? Said Ike: "Such thoughts you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Criminals All? | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Directions: Located on this map, and identified in the statements below, are scenes of recent developments in the news. Write on the answer sheet (opposite the number of each statement) the number which correctly locates the place or event described. 58. Here Keitel, Von Ribbentrop, Frank were hanged and Goring crunched potassium cyanide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...should they have the chance to become citizens? Why didn't we bring the late Field Marshal Keitel and General Jodl here to teach at West Point on the art of war? It makes as much sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1946 | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...them that posterity remembers the victim's dramatic last appearance better than the execution cause. The condemned at Nürnberg did not fail to make the most of their chance. While the late Joachim von Ribbentrop was still swinging from the first gallows, Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel, in well-pressed uniform and gleaming boots, mounted the second scaffold briskly, as though it were a reviewing stand, and said: ". . . More than two million German soldiers went to their deaths for the Fatherland. I follow now my sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Night without Dawn | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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