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Nazi Perpetrators: Heads of Nazi Germany's Armed Forces

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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
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)

Sources: Nizkor. Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression, Volume II, pp. 1063-64.