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Brauchitsch, (Heinrich Alfred) Walther von (1881–1948)| German field marshal. A staff officer in World War I, he became commander-in-chief of the army and a member of Hitler's secret cabinet council 1938. He resigned after a heart attack and his failure to repel Marshal Zhukov's counterattack outside Moscow 1941. He was captured 1945, but died before he could be tried in the Nürnberg trials. |
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