OKW

Acronym	Definition
OKW	Old Key West (Disney Resort)
OKW	One Kill Wonder
OKW	Ober-Kommando der Wehrmacht (WWII German)
OKW	Old King William's (College alumni)

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(16) OKW, "Instructions for the Behavior of German Soldiers in Romania," January 11, 1941, NARA T-501/281/000230; Forster, 338; and DHM, "Build-Up and Action of the Romanian Army."

The German military mission to Romania, 1940-1941

Each of them, including the OKW itself, jealously guarded its labour pool.

Australian POW labour in Germany in World War II

(241) The reason for this planning game was the need to elaborate further the planned attack on the Soviet Union on the basis of the OKW instruction of July 1940.

German war gaming

Although the entire Army Group B was most definitely desperately overextended, to explain the defeat of the 6th army purely as a result of insufficient support from Berlin (which was partially caused by misleading reports about the Russian resistance sent to the OKW by Paulus himself) appears unsatisfactory, if not contradictory, considering Hitler's obsession with Stalingrad.

"Loyalty gleaming, guns screaming": William T. Vollmann's Europe Central and the memory of Stalingrad

(78) The military officers were Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces; Colonel-General Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht or OKW); and Admiral Erich Raeder, Commander of the Navy (Kreigsmarine).

"I won't participate in an illegal war": military objectors, the Nuremberg defense, and the obligation to refuse illegal orders

Despite three service chains of command, service differences, and the increasingly paramount role of Adolf Hitler via the OKW (Supreme Command, Armed Forces) in military decisions, senior Germans ensured the cooperation of professionals.

Hitler's Pre-emptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940

Both the Chief of Staff of the High Command of the Armed Forces (OKW), Wilhelm Keitel, and his lieutenant, the Chief of the Wehrmacht operations staff, Alfred Jodl, had been artillerymen and staff officers in the conflict: their battle had been an indirect one, although Keitel had been wounded.

Hitler's lightning strike: the German army's training, discipline and Blitzkrieg tactics--directed by the supremely confident Fuhrer--swept away Polish resistance in 1939. It took the shells-hocked Allies another three years to catch up

I suggest once more that the OKW [Oberkommando der Wehrmacht] indoctrinate the soldiers on this point, but I don't expect much.

"The diaries of Fritzes and the letters of Gretchens": personal writings from the German-Soviet war and their readers

On February 23, 1940 a meeting of German High Command, with Hitler, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, the Commander of German Naval Forces, General Wilhelm Keitel, the Chief of staff of OKW (20), and General Alfred Jodl, the Chief of OKW's Operation Section participating, took place.

Faced with an alternative: a failed submarine deal/Valiku ees. Nurjunud allveelaevatehing

The High Command (OKW) and Hitler as commander in chief come in for plenty of criticism as well for failing to appreciate that a world war is always a sea war.

Hitler's Admirals

And Oliver expects OKW Cars to turnover pounds 1m in its first 12 months, selling around 16 cars annually.