Lot 2418
GFM Kesselring: A photo album "World War 1940/41 - Volume 2"
German Historical Collectibles from 1919 onwards | A83r | Live auction | 608 Lots
Hammer price € 1,300
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The album starts in 1940, with observations of the air raids on England‘s channel coast, together with Goering ("The Reich Marshal visiting Cesar 2"), Lörzer, Keller and other generals, presentation of the Marshal‘s baton on September 4, 1940. Visiting an Airforce field hospital in December of 1940, with hungarian and japanese officers in the Metropol hotel in Brussels, at IX. Flieger-Korps in Bloemendaal on March 05, 1941. With Generalarbeitsführer Prentzel in Brussels, at JaFü 2 in Jena in May of 1941, GFM Sperrle in Brussels, with italian fighter group, fairwell dinner of the Italians and goodbye to Cesar 2. Approx. 110 photos, mostly glued in, various sizes, including some PK photos. The brown leather binding with signs of wear, some of the pages with later captions written with a felt-tip pen. The album initially contained about 50% more photos, which were removed for various publications.Condition: II - Questions about the lot?