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Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal and army commander in chief during the first part of World War II, who was instrumental in planning and carrying out the campaigns against Poland (September 1939), the Netherlands, Belgium, France (May–June 1940), the Balkans (April–May 1941), and the

Walther Heinrich Alfred Hermann von Brauchitsch (* 4. Oktober 1881 in Berlin; † 18. Oktober 1948 in Hamburg) war ein deutscher Generalfeldmarschall und in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus von 1938 bis 1941 Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres .

Under oath at the Nuremberg trials, Walther von Brauchitsch committed perjury when he denied taking any bribes. Brauchitsch's bank records showed that he had been receiving 4,000 Reichsmark per month payments from Konto 5 from 1938 until the end of the war. [45]

February 1938: Walther von Brauchitsch succeeds Fritsch as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and is granted cabinet rank. April 1939: Brauchitsch and Keitel accept the Golden Party Badge. May 1939: Arthur Seyss-Inquart enters the Cabinet as a Reich Minister (without portfolio).

Though personally averse to Nazism, Brauchitsch soon becomes inextricably bound to Hitler. He is forced to borrow 80,000 Reichmarks from the dictator in order to obtain a divorce and remarry. He is also highly ambitious and keen to succeed General Werner von Fritsch as Commander-in-Chief of the Werhmacht.

Walther Heinrich Alfred Hermann von Brauchitsch (4 October 1881 – 18 October 1948) was a German field marshal and the Commander-in-Chief ( Oberbefehlshaber) of the German Army during World War II. Born into an aristocratic military family, he entered army service in 1901.

Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch headed the OKH until December 1941, when Hitler forced his resignation and took personal command of the Russian front until the end of the war. Hitler’s contribution to the war in the West was to order the construction of an impregnable.

Walther von Brauchitsch (väl´tər fən brou´khĬch), 1881–1948, German field marshal. Of a Prussian Junker family, he served in World War I with the general staff and later remained in the military. In Feb., 1938, he became commander in chief of the German army, and in World War II he won swift victories (1939–40) in Poland, the Low ...