Twenty-six men reached the top of Germany’s military ladder in WW2—handed the field marshal’s baton by Adolf Hitler—and not one of them escaped a final reckoning. This documentary follows the full chain of command from early victories to collapse: promotions used as rewards, dismissals used as punishment, and careers that ended in courts, captivity, illness, or the chaos of the war’s closing weeks.
From Blomberg’s scandal and Brauchitsch’s removal, to Keitel at the OKW, to Witzleben and the July 20 plot, the story moves through Rommel’s ultimatum, Kluge’s collapse in the West, Model in the Ruhr, and the last Luftwaffe appointments as Berlin fell. We trace turning points across Operation Barbarossa, Stalingrad, Leningrad, Operation Bagration, the Battle of the Bulge, and the postwar trials at Nuremberg—then follow the long, quiet aftermath for those who lived on. The baton promised legacy. In the end, it became a ledger of consequences.
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world war 2, ww2 documentary, german field marshal, hitler top commanders, third reich history, wehrmacht history, nuremberg trials, operation barbarossa, stalingrad, operation uranus, leningrad siege, operation bagration, battle of the bulge, ardennes offensive, ruhr pocket, berlin 1945, luftwaffe, hanna reitsch, hermann goring, wilhelm keitel, erwin rommel, friedrich paulus, walter model, gunther von kluge, gerd von rundstedt, fedor von bock, erich von manstein, albert kesselring
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00:00 Final Ledger Opens
01:34 Werner von Blomberg — WW2
03:09 Walther von Brauchitsch — WW2
04:50 Eduard Freiherr von Böhm-Ermolli — WW2
06:23 Wilhelm Keitel — WW2
08:12 Erwin von Witzleben — WW2
09:14 Erwin Rommel — WW2
11:09 Günther von Kluge — WW2
12:39 Walter Model — WW2
14:26 Robert Ritter von Greim — WW2
16:03 Hermann Göring — WW2
17:34 Friedrich Paulus — WW2
19:14 Ewald von Kleist — WW2
20:50 Gerd von Rundstedt — WW2
22:46 Fedor von Bock — WW2
24:23 Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb — WW2
26:07 Ernst Busch — WW2
27:42 Wilhelm List — WW2
29:11 Georg von Küchler — WW2
30:52 Maximilian von Weichs — WW2
32:30 Walther von Reichenau — WW2
34:06 Albert Kesselring — WW2
35:40 Hugo Sperrle — WW2
37:15 Erhard Milch — WW2
39:06 Wolfram von Richthofen — WW2
41:33 Erich von Manstein — WW2
43:12 Ferdinand Schörner — WW2
43:12 Ledger Closes — WW2
Credit to : Unheard War Story