Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel was at the forefront of the creation of the regular army of Nazi Germany. An international tribunal accused him, as one of the organizers of World War II, of committing crimes against humanity. Carrying out various particularly important diplomatic and political assignments of the Nazi leadership, Keitel developed a number of directives and orders, according to which parts of the Wehrmacht committed terrible crimes against humanity during the Second World War. The book of memoirs of Wilhelm Keitel offered to the reader was written in a Nuremberg prison after he was sentenced to death . A few weeks before the execution of the sentence, the field marshal tried to comprehend his fate and the reasons for the inglorious end of the Third Reich.