![Wilhelm Keitel, head of the German Armed Forces High Command, who signed orders authorizing the shooting of Soviet prisoners of war. [LCID: 73802]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/35cb1e37-c8b8-4662-aa77-2badf24470fd.jpg)
Wilhelm Keitel, head of the German Armed Forces High Command, who signed orders authorizing the shooting of Soviet prisoners of war. Germany, 1942.
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