Wilhelm Keitel, Nuremberg, International Military Tribunal, Nazis, World War II, Germany, war crimes, German Field Marshal, Supreme Command of the Armed Forces

Defendant Wilhelm Keitel talks with his defense in the free period after noon lunch.

Wilhelm Keitel was a German Field Marshal, head of the   Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Supreme Command of the Armed Forces) and de facto war minister. At the Allied court at Nuremberg he was tried, sentenced to death and hanged as a major war criminal October 16, 1946.