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.

Albert Kesselring military career spanned both World Wars. Kesselring became one of Germany’s most skillful commanders, and one of the most highly decorated, being one of only 27 soldiers awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves & Swords with Diamonds.  During WW2 he commanded air forces in the invasions of Poland and France, the Battle of Britain and Operation Barbarossa.  As Wehrmacht Commander-in-Chief South, he was the overall German commander in the Mediterranean theater, which included the operations in North Africa.  In his final campaign of the war, he commanded
German forces on the Western Front.  After the war, Kesselring was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death for ordering the murder of 335 Italian civilians.  The sentence was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment, but he was released in 1952.  He died in 1960 in Hessen, West Germany.

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

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