The Nizkor Project: Remembering the Holocaust (Shoah)

Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression
Biographical Data

Heads Of The Armed Forces


[Page 1063]

Supreme Commander (Oberster Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht)... ADOLF HITLER
Highest ranking officer (Rangaeltester Offizier)... HERMANN WILHELM GOERING (Reichsmarschall)
C. in C. Army (Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres)... ADOLF HITLER (predecessors, Walter von Brauschitsch, Werner von Fritsch)
C. in C. Navy (Oberbefehlshaber der Kriegsmarine)... KARL DOENITZ (predecessor, Erich Raeder)
C. in C. Air Force (Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe)... HERMANN WILHELM GOERING (succeeded in 1945 by Robert von Greim)

A. HIGH COMMAND OF THE ARMED FORCES (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht: OKW)

Chief of High Command (Chef des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht)... WILHELM KEITEL

[Page 1064]

Chief of Operation Staff (Chef des Wehrmachtfuehrungsstabes)... ALFRED JODL
Deputy Chief................................. WALTER WARLIMONT

B. ARMY HIGH COMMAND (Oberkommando des Neeres: OKH)

C. in C. Army (Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres)... ADOLF HITLER (predecessors, Walter von Brauchitsch, Werner von Fritsch)
Chief of Staff, Army (Chef des Generalstabes des Heeres)... HANS KREBS (predecessors, Heinz Guderian, Kurt Zeitzler, Franz Halder and Ludwig Beck)

C. NAVY HIGH COMMAND (Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine: OKM)

C. in C. Navy (Oberbefehlshaber der Kriegsmarine)... KARL DOENITZ (predecessor Erich Raeder)
Admiralinspekteur............................ ERICH RAEDER (after 1943)


The original plaintext version of this file is available via ftp.

[ Previous | Index | Next ]

Home ·  Site Map ·  What's New? ·  Search Nizkor

© The Nizkor Project, 1991-2012

This site is intended for educational purposes to teach about the Holocaust and to combat hatred. Any statements or excerpts found on this site are for educational purposes only.

As part of these educational purposes, Nizkor may include on this website materials, such as excerpts from the writings of racists and antisemites. Far from approving these writings, Nizkor condemns them and provides them so that its readers can learn the nature and extent of hate and antisemitic discourse. Nizkor urges the readers of these pages to condemn racist and hate speech in all of its forms and manifestations.