Wilhelm Keitel

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Biographical sketches are found in Eugene Davidson, “Wilhelm Keitel,” in his The Trial of the Germans (1966, reissued 1997), pp. 328–342; and Walter Görlitz, “Keitel, Jodl, and Warlimont,” in Correlli Barnett (ed.), Hitler’s Generals (1989), pp. 139–171, with a chronology of his life.

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Description	Contributor	Date
Modified link of Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Nuremberg Trial Judgements: Wilhelm Keitel.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 22, 2024
Anniversary information added.		Oct 12, 2024
Anniversary information added.		Sep 18, 2024
First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 19, 2024
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Wilhelm Keitel.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 02, 2023
Add new Web site: World War II Database - Wilhelm Keitel.	Aakanksha Gaur	Sep 23, 2022
Add new Web site: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - The Holocaust Encyclopedia - Wilhelm Keitel: Biography.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 27, 2020
Corrected display issue.	Adam Augustyn	Apr 12, 2019
Add new Web site: History Learning Site - Wilhelm Keitel.	Aakanksha Gaur	Mar 19, 2014
Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Wilhelm Keitel.	Aakanksha Gaur	Mar 19, 2014
Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Nuremberg Trial Judgements: Wilhelm Keitel.	Aakanksha Gaur	Mar 19, 2014
Added new Web site: Famous Trials - The Nuremberg Trials.	Marco Sampaolo	Sep 01, 2006
Added new Web site: Famous Trials - The Nuremberg Trials.	Marco Sampaolo	Sep 01, 2006
Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Apr 07, 2005
Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 27, 1999