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Old May 17th, 2023 #1
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German Field Marshal Kesselring's Baton



GERMAN FIELD MARSHAL KESSELRING'S BATON - … replica



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Kesselring's Generalfeldmarschall's baton was seized by a private serving as a scout with the US 2nd Armored Division, the first US division to enter Berlin, in July 1945. He was ordered to search castles that had been used by high-ranking German officers and found the baton. It remained in his possession until his death in 1977, when it passed to his widow, and then to his son, who put it up for auction by Alex Cooper auctioneers in 2010. Expected to fetch between US$10,000 and $15,000, it was sold to a private bidder for $731,600.[333][334]

333 - Rodricks, Dan (12 December 2010). "Nazi baton fetches over $700,000 at auction in Towson". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 7 September 2018.

334 - High price for Nazi baton". Sydney Morning Herald. 14 December 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2018.

High price for Nazi baton - The Sydney Morning Herald

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Old May 17th, 2023 #2
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"seized" - that means stolen.

That's funny, looting is OK when the Allies do it.
 
Old May 18th, 2023 #3
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"Smiling Albert's" baton should be in a museum. Many of the biggest buyers and collectors of Third Reich memorabilia are jews.
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Old May 18th, 2023 #4
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Albert Kesselring


Kesselring wearing his Knight's Cross in 1940.

Albert Kesselring (30 November 1885 – 16 July 1960) was a German Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftwaffe during World War II who was subsequently convicted of war crimes. In a military career that spanned both World Wars, Kesselring became one of Nazi Germany's most skilful 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 and Diamonds.

Kesselring joined the Bavarian Army as an officer cadet in 1904 and served in the artillery branch. He completed training as a balloon observer in 1912. During World War I, he served on both the Western and Eastern fronts and was posted to the General Staff, despite not having attended the War Academy. Kesselring remained in the Army after the war but was discharged in 1933 to become head of the Department of Administration at the Reich Commissariat for Aviation, where he was involved in the re-establishment of the German aviation industry and the laying of the foundations for the Luftwaffe, serving as its chief of staff from 1936 to 1938.

During World War II 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 theatre, which included the operations in North Africa. Kesselring conducted a defensive campaign against the Allied forces in Italy until he was injured in an accident in October 1944. In his final campaign of the war, he commanded German forces on the Western Front. He won the respect of his Allied opponents for his military accomplishments, but his record also included massacres committed on his orders in Italy.

After the war, Kesselring was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death for ordering the murder of 335 Italian civilians in the Ardeatine massacre, and for inciting and ordering his troops to kill civilians in reprisals against the Italian resistance movement. The sentence was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment. A political and media campaign resulted in his release in 1952, ostensibly on health grounds. He published his memoirs, Soldat bis zum letzten Tag ("A Soldier to the Last Day") in 1953.

Kesselring accepted the honorary presidency of three veterans' organisations: the Luftwaffenring, consisting of Luftwaffe veterans; the Verband deutsches Afrikakorps, the veterans' association of the Afrika Korps; and, more controversially, the right-wing Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten.

Field Marshal Albert Kesselring Baton - War Militaria


Death and Burial ground of Field Marshal Kesselring

In July 1952, Kesselring was diagnosed with a cancerous growth in the throat. During World War I, he had frequently smoked up to twenty cigars per day but he quit smoking in 1925. Although the British were suspicious of the diagnosis, they were concerned that he might die in prison like Generalleutnant der Luftwaffe Kurt Mälzer, which would be a public relations disaster. Kesselring was transferred to a hospital, under guard. In October 1952, Kesselring was released from his prison sentence on the grounds of ill-health. Smiling Albert Kesselring died eight years later on 16-07-1960, age 74 in a sanatorium in Bad Nauheim of a heart attack, Albert Kesselring was buried with his wife Luise Anna Pauline “Liny” Keyssler, who died age 69, on 28-01-1957, on the Bergfriedhof of Bad Wiessee, Field I and only steps of the graves of the Generalfeldmarschall der Infanterie, Werner Blombergand General der Infanterie, Franz Beyer. General der Flieger, Josef Kammhuber spoke on behalf of the Luftwaffe and Bundeswehr, expressing the hope that Kesselring would be remembered for his earlier accomplishments rather than for his later activities. Also present were the former SS Oberstgruppenführer Josef “Sepp” Dietrich, the ex-Chancellor, Franz von Papen, Generalfeldmarschall der Gebirgstruppe, Ferdinand Schörner, Grossadmiral and former Reichspräsident,Karl Dönitz, SS Standartenführer, Joachim Peiperand Generalmajor der Wehrmacht, Ernst Otto Remer, who played a decisive role in stopping the 1944, 20 July Plot against Adolf Hitler. During the war Remer was wounded nine times in combat. After the war he, here in the middle, co-founded the Sozialistische Reichspartei.



Kesselring, Albert "Smiling Albert". - WW2 Gravestone 18 V 2023.
 
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