As first general staff officer, Keitel took Boehmer from the Berlin Bendlerblock and a telegram to Keitel from the conspirators and prompted the first steps.
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The liaison officer in the military district XX at the time was Lieutenant Colonel Hasso von Boehmer, who by his friend Henning von Tresckow for his resistance to Adolf Hitler,recruited the brothers Stauffenberg to carry out the assassination of Hitler.
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On the day of the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler (20 July 1944) Keitel was on an inspection tour in his command area.
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As Keitel learned over the radio from the failed attack, he returned immediately back to Gdansk, could only be confirmed by phone from his brother Wilhelm Keitel"?title=Hasso von Boehmer">Boehmer was taken before the People's Court and executed in 1945.
Keitel's brother, General Bodewin Keitel, an infantry general in the Army High Command (OKH), was captured by Allied forces in 1945 and released in 1947.
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