Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Keitel was a high ranking officer of the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany during World War II.
==Biography==
===Defeat of Nazi Germany===
On May 8, 1945, Wilhelm Keitel had to sign the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at Soviet headquarters in Berlin.A short footage of the signing ceremony appears in Captain America: The Winter Soldier
=== Post-World War II ===
He was subsequently arrested and tried at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. Keitel was sentenced to death and hanged at the Nuremberg Prison in April 1946. According to Roger Dooley, it took twenty-five minutes for Keitel to die on the gallows.
==Trivia==
*In real-world history, Wilhelm Keitel was hanged on October 16, 1946.
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