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.

 Walther Heinrich Alfred Hermann von Brauchitsch (4 October 1881 – 18 October 1948) was a German field marshal and the Commander-in-Chief of the German Army from Feb 1938 – Dec 1941.  He played a key role in the Battle of France and oversaw the German invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece.  After suffering a heart attack in Nov 1941 and being blamed for the failure of Operation Typhoon, the Wehrmacht's attack on Moscow, he was dismissed as Commander-in-Chief and spent the rest of the war in enforced retirement.  After the war, von Brauchitsch was arrested on charges of war crimes, but died of pneumonia in 1948 before he could be prosecuted.

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

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