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Werner von Blomberg
said
Before 1938, the German generals were not opposed to Hitler because he produced the results they desired.
— Quoted in "Facts on File Yearbook" - 1941 - Page 2
Werner von Blomberg
German Army field marshal and Military Chief of the Wehrmacht Military Forces (Heer,Luftwaffe,Kriegsmarine) (1878-1946)
- Fame57.3
- Momentum1.0
- Germany rank#249
Source-basedStable
- Fame57.3
- Momentum1.0
- Germany rank#249
- Politicians rank#211
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Lived 1878–1946, aged 68Germany
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Updated 2026-06-09
Germany's first Nazi-era war minister, the field marshal who rearmed Hitler's Wehrmacht and purged its ranks of dissenters — then found himself ousted in a sex scandal engineered by Göring and Himmler when his enthusiasm for the regime's war plans cooled.
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Werner von Blomberg served on the Western Front in World War I and climbed to chief of the Truppenamt, the covert General Staff, during the Weimar years from 1927 to 1929. President Hindenburg appointed him Defence Minister in January 1933, the same month Hitler took power. Renamed Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Blomberg steered Germany's rearmament and cleared the officer corps of anyone who balked at the new order. But as he grew wary of Nazi foreign adventurism, Göring and Himmler manufactured the Blomberg–Fritsch affair in 1938 and forced him out. He spent the…
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Werner von Blomberg
said
Having been informed of events by Vice-Chancellor von Papen, President Hindenburg summoned General Goering, in his capacity of Chief of Police, and myself to Neudeck.
— Quoted in "Hitler and I" - Page 186 - by Otto Strasser, Gwenda David, Eric Mosbacher - Germany - 1940
Werner von Blomberg
saidundated
Keitel is nobody but the man who runs my office.
— To Adolf Hitler. Quoted in "Underground Humour in Nazi Germany" - Page 69 - by Fritz Karl Michael Hillenbrand - 1995
Werner von Blomberg
saidundated
He became a willing tool in Hitler's hands for every one of his decisions.
— About Wilhelm Keitel. Quoted in "Justice at Nuremberg" - Page 281 - by Robert E. Conot - History - 1993
Werner von Blomberg
saidundated
We Germans will never forget what the Soviet Army has accomplished for Germany during the past 10 years.
— Quoted in "Germany plots with the Kremlin" - Page 49 - by Tete Harens Tetens - 1953
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