1st class Sacred Treasure and 1st class Rising Sun orders of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel

Chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (the high command of Nazi Germany's Armed Forces, during the Second World War) Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (22 September 1882 – 16 October 1946) was decorated with 1st class Sacred Treasure order on November 9, 1937.

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Document No. 5 850.

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Another document for the Sacred Treasure order awarded to German officer on the very same date https://asiamedals.info/threads/3rd...-of-general-field-marshal-erhard-milch.25459/
34 Japanese orders were awarded to German Reich high-ranking officials on that day.
 
New Year's reception of the German government. Berlin, 1939. Wilhelm Keitel (he is wearing breast stars of Sacred Treasure Order, Order of Merit of the Kingdom of Hungary and Italian Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus), talking to the Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima; in the background: Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Dr. Hans Heinrich Lammers (right), the head of the Reich Chancellery.

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At a reception of the diplomatic corps held by Adolf Hitler, from left: Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler, air force general Erhard Milch, foreign minister Joachim v. Ribbentrop and general Wilhelm Keitel, Head of the Armed Forces High Command (OKW). Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, August 1938.​

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Tripartite Pact Signing of a supplementary convention to the Pact in the Reich Chancellery; from the left (sitting): Leutenant-General Efisio Luigi Marras, Wilhelm Keitel, head of the German armed forces, and naval attache Naokuni Nomura. Berlin, 1942.​

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Keitel was awarded with 1st class Order of the Rising Sun on September 26, 1942.

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His Italians orders of Crown and Saints Maurice and Lazarus.

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Italian Military Order of Savoy.

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Awarded on April 24, 1942.

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Spanish Order of Military Merit.

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Breast star of the Order of the White Rose of Finland.

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