Lot 4306
An album belonging to a Hitler Youth member with more than 50 autographs of Knight's Cross winners and others, 1942-44
German Historical Collectibles from 1919 onwards | A79r | Live auction | 787 Lots
Hammer price € 3,520
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Hard-cover binding with mounted picture (tr.) "Knight’s Cross winners", worn, partly damaged. The autographs mostly on RK postcards, some on slips of paper or letters, mounted in photo corners on squared sheets labelled by the Hitler Youth boy with names, ranks and sending dates; the last two autographs glued in.Colonel General Eduard Dietl with accompanying letter, GFM Erhard Milch, GFM Erwin Rommel, Marschall von Mannerheim, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, Lieutenant "Sepp Wurmheller Jagdgeschwader Richthofen" on private photograph postcard in uniform with Knight’s Cross and Oak Leaves, Major General Adolf Galland, Lieutenant Herbert Schramm, Major Walter Oesau, Reich Minister Wilhelm Frick, Major "Hermann Graf 15.2.43", General d. Flieger Karl Bodenschatz with accompanying letter, 1st Lieutenant Wolfgang Späte, Captain Alfred Druschel on a private photograph, Lieutenant Colonel Johannes Trautloft, General d. Flieger Rudolf Bogatsch, Lieutenant General Theodor Scherer, Colonel Oskar-Heinrich Bär, Lieutenant Commander Erich Topp (two photographs on RK postcards and accompanying letter), SS-Hauptsturmführer Fritz Klingenberg, Gen. d. Flieger Walther von Axthelm, GFM Wolfram von Richthofen, Colonel General Heinz Guderian, Captain Franz Ketterl, Colonel Gustav Knabe, Lt. Wilhelm-August Vielwerth (pencil signature on paper), GFM Franz Halder, 1st Lieutenant Hans-Joachim Marseille in ink on a Hoffmann postcard with Knight’s Cross, Oak Leaves and Swords (received by the Hitler Youth boy approx. eleven months after Marseille’s death), Major Herbert Ihlefeld, Gen. d. Flieger Otto Dessloch with accompanying letter, Colonel Werner Mölders, GFM Erich von Manstein, Colonel Eugen-Heinrich "Bleyer 10.4.43", 1st Lieutenant Werner Ebeling (glued to a photograph), General of Infantry Karl Weisenberger on a card, with accompanying letter ((tr.) "I am afraid the General has no more photographs out here."), Gen. d. Flieger Robert Ritter von Greim, Captain Helmut Bruck, Major Hubertus Hitschold, Captain Hans-Ekkehard Bob, SS-Hauptsturmführer Markus Faulhaber (two autographs, on a private photograph with Knight’s Cross, and handwritten greeting and signature on the reverse of the letter written by the HY boy), SS-Standartenführer Otto Gieseke (two autographs, on the reverse of the photograph and on a slip of paper), Colonel Hans von Mosel, Lieutenant Commander Erich Grundmann on a return letter, Captain Johannes Kiel, Lieutenant Commander Otto von Bülow, Colonel Bernhard Griese (two autographs, on an RK postcard and a handwritten return letter), Lieutenant Commander Jost Metzler, Lieutenant Commander Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, Lieutenant Commander Karl-Friedrich Merten, Major Harald von Hirschfeld, Major Gordeon M. Gollob, 1st Lieutenant Heinz Geschwill, SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich, Colonel Walter von Hippel, ‚Colonel General Walter Model, Lieutenant Commander Reinhard Hardegen and Colonel Hans Philipp.Unique and impressive collection of rare autographs.Condition: II / II - III Questions about the lot?