An Important 1945 Letter From Gross Admiral Karl Dönitz To Generaloberst Jodl Authorizing A Ceasefire Auction Archive with his "ankles and hands

with his "ankles and hands getting puffy" and a "sort of stiffness and tingling" in his fingers

He signed his Attestation Paper with the 135th Infantry Battalion "Middlesex Battalion"

with red wool bases

engraver marked "DE MARCHI" on the obverse

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An Important 1945 Letter From Gross Admiral Karl Dönitz To Generaloberst Jodl Authorizing A Ceasefire Auction Archive with his "ankles and handsBlack typewriter face on a cream coloured linen stock, inscribed "Hauptquartier, den 6. Mai 1945 Ich bevollmchtige Generaloberst Jodl, Chef des Wehrmachtfuhrungsstabes im Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, zum Abschluss eines Waffenstillstandsabkommens mit dem Hauptquartier des Generals Eisenhower. Grossadmiral" (Headquarters, May 6, 1945 I authorize General Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command, to conclude a ceasefire