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The Memoirs of
Field-Marshal Keitel
Edited with an
introduction and epilogue
by Walter Grlitz
Translated
by David Irving
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FOCAL POINT
The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel
¨ Musterschmidt-Verlag, Gttingen, 1961
English translation by David Irving
¨ William Kimber and Co., London, 1965
Electronic edition
¨ Focal Point Publications, London, 2003
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 66-14954
All rights reserved
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
The Background and Career of
Field-Marshal Keitel, 1882Î1946
MEMOIRS
1: The BlombergÎFritsch Crisis
2: From Austria to the End of the French Campaign
3: Prelude to the Attack on Russia
4: The Russian Campaign
5: Extracts from KeitelÓs Wartime Letters to his Wife
6: The Bomb Plot of 20th July, 1944
7: The Last Days under Adolf Hitler
8: Afterthoughts
EPILOGUE
The Indictment
Notes
Index
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PublisherÓs Note
The memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel were written
in manuscript in prison at Nuremberg beginning on
1st September, 1946. The original is in the posses-
sion of the Keitel family. His narrative covering the
years 1933 to 1938 is included in the German edi-
tion, but in this English edition KeitelÓs life up to
1937 is dealt with in the editorÓs introduction,
which contains many extracts from KeitelÓs own
account of those years. The translation of the mem-
oirs themselves here begins with 1937, on page 36.
On the other hand, some passages from the original
manuscript, which were not included in the German
edition, appear in this translation, as for example
the description of the Munich crisis and the plan-
ning discussions for the invasion of Britain.
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