HISTORY.   Major Robert Schaefer, US Army (far left of 3ed picture) was an attorney that worked the post WW2 trials in Nuremberg, Germany.  When Maj. Schaefer returned to the US, he brought this Arrest Report with him as a remembrance of his work in Nuremberg.  It was purchased from his widow.

Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein (24 November 1887 – 9 June 1973) was a German Field Marshal of the Army during WW2.  He was known as a brillant strategist, it was his plan that was used to invade France in 1940. During Operation Barbarosa he lead the Seige of Sevastopol, the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula, the Seige of Leningrad, the attempted rescue during the Battle of Stalingrad, the counteroffensive in the Third Battle of Kharkov and the Battle of Kursk.  His ongoing disagreements with Hitler over the conduct of the war led to his dismissal in March 1944.  He was taken prisoner by the British in August 1945.  He was tried in hamburg for war crimes and served four years of an 18 year sentence and was released in 1953.

The Arrest Report is an original carbon copy with original signature, date and stamp.

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