Werner von Blomberg, German Field Marshal. In the autumn of 1935, he was also appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Presided over the early expansion of Nazi Germany. He was awarded the rank of marshal in 1936. In November 1937, at the Secret Council of the Supreme Military and Political Council, there were reservations about the specific expansion steps proposed by Hitler. He was dismissed in 1938 in the Blomburg-Frittsch Affair. After World War II, as one of the organizers and leaders of the Army of Nazi Germany, he died suddenly in prison during his trial at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg.
Hermann Wilhelm Göhring, Marshal of the Luftwaffe, Marshal of the Nazi Empire, number two man in the German Nazi Party, Hitler's designated successor, culprit in the Reichstag arson and formation of the secret police, the Gestapo. At the Nuremberg trials, Goering was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to hanging, but he committed suicide in prison hours before the execution.
Fedor von Bock, Field Marshal of the German Army. Died in Allied air raids.
Walter von Brauchitsch, Field Marshal of the German Army. He was promoted to marshal in July 1940. Due to the defeat in the blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union, he was forced to resign by Hitler in December of the same year. After being transferred to the reserve, he lived in anonymity. He was captured by the British in 1945. He later died of a heart attack in a prisoner-of-war camp in Hamburg.
Wilhelm Joseph Franz von Loeb, German Field Marshal. He participated in the Eight-Power Alliance's war of aggression against China against the Boxers. He was dismissed in 1942 for dissatisfaction with Hitler and the SS. The Allies pronounced a three-year sentence in prison to convey Hitler's criminal fate. On April 29, 1956, Loeb died of illness.
Karl Rudolf Geld von Lundstedt, German Field Marshal, one of the oldest military commanders among nazi military officers. Oppose the invasion of the Soviet Union. He was dismissed in 1943 for trying with Rommel to persuade Hitler to cease war. Imprisoned by the British after the war, he was released in May 1949 and died of a heart attack in 1953.
Wilhelm Keitel, Field Marshal of germany. He was tried at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg after the war and sentenced to hanging on charges of conspiracy or conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity, which was carried out on 16 October 1946.
Hans Gunter von Kluge was a field marshal of Nazi Germany, a famous military strategist and commander-in-chief. Known as the wise Hans. Known for its political wobbles and tough defensive battles on the Eastern Front. He was dismissed from his post for involvement in the assassination of Hitler and committed suicide on 19 August 1944.
Wilhelm Lister, Field Marshal of germany. After the Second World War, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. In 1952, he was released by the US authorities due to illness and settled in the Federal Republic of Germany. Lister died in West Germany in 1971 at the age of 91.
Ernst von Busch, Field Marshal of germany. He was dismissed by Hitler for advocating a retreat. He was again drafted by Hitler in 1945, but Germany was then defeated. He was ordered to surrender on May 7, 1945. Fourteen days later, he was escorted from London to a prisoner-of-war camp in Oldshot. On July 17, 1945, Busch died of a heart attack.
Fritz Erich von Manstein, Field Marshal of germany. Manstein, along with Rommel and Guderian, was known as the "Eagle of the Reich" of Nazi Germany during World War II. Arrested by the British army in 1945 and sentenced to 18 years in prison, he was released early in 1953 for his good performance in prison. He died on June 11, 1973, at the age of 86
Georg von Kuchler, German Field Marshal. After the Second World War, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg as a war criminal. He was pardoned in 1953 and settled in the Federal Republic of Germany. He died on May 25, 1968.
Walter von Reichenau is a German Field Marshal. In 1941, he led his troops in a blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union, and in December he was promoted to commander of Army Group South. In January of the following year, he died of a sudden heart attack.
Erwin von Witzleben, German Field Marshal. Oppose the invasion of the Soviet Union. Arrested on 20 July 1944 for plotting a failed assassination of Hitler, he was sentenced to treason and hanged, and died on 8 August in the Prutzensee prison in Berlin.
Erwin Johannes Jugan Rommel, German Field Marshal. Later in the war, there was a negative attitude towards the Kuomintang, but there was no substantial resistance. During the Normandy landings, he was wounded by British aircraft. Later, he was implicated in the assassination of Hitler and was forced to commit suicide by poisoning.
Albert Kesselring, Luftwaffe Field Marshal, one of Nazi Germany's most commanding generals. After the war, Kesselring was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death, but was subsequently pardoned to life imprisonment. Due to media propaganda and political reasons, the official public claimed that Kesselring was released in 1952 for "health reasons" and died on July 16, 1960.
Ewald von Kleist, Field Marshal of the German Army. Captured by the Allies at the end of World War II. In 1946, as a war criminal, he was handed over to Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison and later died in Soviet prison.
Edward Mirch, Marshal of the Luftwaffe. He was prosecuted in a follow-up trial in Nuremberg after the end of World War II, involving the use of prisoners of war and civilians for human experimentation and forced labor, and sentenced to life imprisonment, but was released in January 1954 and died in 1972. It is also worth noting that Milch is of Jewish descent and is the highest rank among the few Jewish soldiers in the German army.
Maximilian von Weix, Field Marshal of the German Army. Weix has always been suspected and ostracized by the Kuomintang because of his Catholicism. In April 1944, he was appointed Commander of the German Army in Hungary. Captured by the Americans after the war. He was released in 1948 due to illness. On 27 September 1954, Weix died of illness in Resberg, near Bonn.
Robert Ritter von Grimm, the last marshal of Nazi Germany. He was invited by Chiang Kai-shek to assist China in establishing an Army Air Force. On May 8, 1945, Nazi Germany surrendered, and Greim was arrested by U.S. forces in Austria. Fearing that he would be exchanged prisoners of war by the U.S. military for the Soviet Union, Glem committed suicide by swallowing potassium cyanide in Salzburg, Austria, on May 24, saying before committing suicide: "As the commander-in-chief of the Air Force, I have no air force. ”
Hugo Speler, Luftwaffe Field Marshal. After his defeat, he was arrested by the Allies and acquitted in the High Commander's Trial that followed at the Nuremberg Trial. He died in Munich, Germany, in 1953.
Karl von Dönitz, German Admiral. Hitler appointed him his heir in his will, as president and supreme commander of the Wehrmacht, and after more than 20 days of service, the German army surrendered. After the war, the Nuremberg trials sentenced him to ten years in prison and was released in 1956. After his release from prison, he continued to promote the Nazi spirit and resergilism. He died of a heart attack on 24 December 1980 at the age of 89, the last of Germany's 27 field marshals to die during World War II.
Erich Raeder, German Admiral. He was snubbed by Hitler for the failure of Operation Rhine. After World War II, Raeder was sentenced to life in prison by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, but was released in 1955 and died in Kiel in 1960.