Los 5510

Beschreibung

Grey-green cardboard. The first page with golden Soviet star and imprinted emblem as well as the committee's name in German, English and French. In the upper left corner stamped "Geheim" and on the bottom marked "Nur für Dienstgebrauch" (for official use only). Blank second page for the personal data such as name, address, place and date of birth etc. The third page with date stamp "10. Juli 1945" , and stamped "Fg 26" in the upper right corner as well as a signature (possibly of Walter Lehweß-Litzmann?). The last page with the German, English and french certification that the possessor of this ID "has been a member of the secret army Seydlitz of the national committee 'Freies Deutschland' (Free Germany) since:". Dimensions ca. 20 x 14 cm. Very nice condition with only slightly darkened edges and minor defects at the bottom. Of utmost rarity. To our knowledge the first and only ID of the NKFD to ever show up on the market. With the defeat at Stalingrad an increasing number of German POW's had lost their belief in Germany's victory and became more and more open to anti-fascists and even communist ideas. And on July 12, 1943 the NKFD was founded by German communists in Soviet exile in Krasnogorsk, the home of the Antifascist Central School in which foreigners could study Communism. Shortly after that the BDO (League of German Officers) joined the NKFD. The BDO was led by General Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach who had the plan to raise a corps of 40.000 German soldiers in Russian captivity to fight Nazi-Germany alongside the Soviet army but his plans of the so-called "Seydlitz Army" were denied. But due to Seydlitz' and the BDO's propaganda appeals to Wehrmacht officers and soldiers to surrender to the Soviet Army eleven of the 22 German Generals of the army in Stalingrad joined the BDO, amongst them the most prominent member Generalfeldmarschall Friedrich Paulus. Both NKFD and BDO were dissolved on November 2, 1945, the NKFD members were sent into the Soviet occupation zone at the end of the war, and the BDO members were released from the POW camps and sent to East Germany over the years to help building the National People's Army of the German Democratic Republic.



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