Lot 1096
Russian Front, Seven pages including cut signatures of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, commander of the German armies that overran Crimea and nearly took Stalingrad; Semyon Budenny, Marshal of the Soviet Union and later Commander in Chief of the Southern Front, whose troops were overrun by Operation Barbarossa; and Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S.; also 13 Soviet field post letters, mostly on pictorial letter sheets or postcards; a German propaganda leaflet in Russian informing the Soviet troops of the advantages of surrender; and an unaddressed German feldpost card bearing six Russian stamps cancelled Baranovichi, 22 Jun 1941, the first day of Operation Barbarossa (most likely back-dated cancels, as Baranovichi was not captured until 25 June).
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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