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He is referred to, by name, in Winston Churchill's V-E Day speech, 8 May 1945.

German military officer. Attained rank of Field Marshal.

He was one of the Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg War Crimes trials after World War II. Charged with crimes against humanity, he was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging, which was carried out in 1946.

He suffered a heart attack and double pneumonia in the autumn of 1932.