Werner von Blomberg
German Army field marshal and Military Chief of the Wehrmacht Military Forces (Heer,Luftwaffe,Kriegsmarine) (1878-1946) · Germany · Politicians · Died at 67
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Something wrong?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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Adolf Hitler and Kintomo Mushanokōji
German Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg's Baton
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Japanese embassy in Berlin - 1937
Rudolf Hess, Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, Reich leader Alfred Rosenberg, Adolf Hitler talking with the Japanese ambassador Viscount Kintomo Mushanokōji, Werner Lorenz and Ernst Wilhelm Bohle - 1937In their own words 6
, 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.
Before 1938, the German generals were not opposed to Hitler because he produced the results they desired.
Keitel is nobody but the man who runs my office.
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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 war in obscurity, surfacing only at Nuremberg as a witness shortly before his death in March 1946.
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