For educational purposes
Like many of those who surrounded Hitler, Wehrmacht chief of staff Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel was simply too weak to accept where his actions were leading. Instead, he took refuge in obedience without limit.
With archival footage never previously shown, the film draws the psychological profile of aman whose moral failings had fatal consequences.
Former officers of the general staff and fellow travellers describe his path from joining the imperial army to the gallows of Nuremberg.
Keitel's key role in the secret rearmament of the Reichswehr to the apocalyptic plans for massive use of nerve gas during the last weeks of the war are presented as stages in a military career caught under the spell of the dictator.
