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GUNTHER BLUMENTRITT (1892-1967) German general, instrumental in planning the German invasion of Poland and France, participated in Operation Barbarossa, and afterward bore a large part of the responsibility for planning the defense of the Atlantic Wall and Normandy. A fine document owned by Blumentritt himself, his personal copy of his final message to Armeegruppe Blumentritt, 1p. 4to., dated May 5, 1945. The printed document with text above Blumentritt's signature, reads in part: "Soldiers of the Army Group! Armistice! Capitulation on the battlefield! I thank all members of my Army Group for the service which they have exhibited until the bitter end...especially to the units which stood up under the most difficult situations and kept up the unbroken soldier spirit until this hour...The opponent who thinks like a soldier will show you respect...You were brave but you all know that we will have to be braver in another sense. Our honor is strong even if the flags fall. This is my last greeting to you, my comrades, and my last order to the Army Group..." Blumentritt has written on the document: "Return requested!" and "Third enclosure". A censor's stamp appears at center-left, and a receiving stamp at bottom is dated Feb. 5, 1947 - when Blumentritt was still a prisoner of the Allies. Clearly he supplied this copy from his personal records for use in his defense. File holes and chips at lower left all of which affect only a few letters of text, tape reinforcement to verso, still quite good.

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