Von Brauchitsch, a nephew to Gen. Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, commander in chief of the German army during World War II, began racing his cousin’s Mercedes in 1929.

In one of the weirdest proclamations in his extended career of weird utterances, Adolf Hitler last week fired Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch and himself took over the job of Commander in ...

It was an uneasy New Year for Adolf Hitler. Something was rotten in the German Army. The Führer had just relieved Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch from his command (TIME, Dec. 29) and was ...

He was born in 1905, scion of a Prussian landowning family. His uncle, Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, commanded the Wehrmacht at the outbreak of the Second World War and was dismissed in ...

Adolf Hitler is shown, center, with Col. Gen. Wilhelm Keitel, left, and Col. Gen. Walther von Brauchitsch, right, on June 21, 1940. (Associated Press) Legends die hard. One of the most stubborn is ...