Bernd von Brauchitsch (30 September 1911 – 19 December 1974)[1] was a German aristocratic Luftwaffe colonel during World War II and adjutant to Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring.

Born in 1911, as the son of Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, he embarked on a military career.

In 1931, Brauchitsch joined the pilot training at the Deutsche Verkehrsfliegerschule (German Air Transport School) at Schleißheim.

In the Second World War, from May to August 1940, Brauchitsch was employed as group commander of a dive bomber unit during the lightning campaign against France and the Low Countries.

In March 1946, he was interrogated at the Nuremberg Trials as a witness to major war crimes as well as his own personal experience of Göring and top Nazi chieftains.

[2][3] In the postwar period, Brauchitsch worked as a manager of the Nord-Westdeutsche Bau- u. Montage GmbH, and since 1956, as a member of the board, set up by the Krupp steel barons and brothers, Berthold and Harald.