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OTTO KRETSCHMER

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(1912 - 1998) U-Boat ace, he became famous on his U-99 for his night-time surface attacks against convoys, and thus his motto ‘One torpedo...one ship’ was created. Scarce real-photo Hoffmann S.P., 3.5 x 5.5 in. b/w, showing Kretschmer in head and shoulders, boldly signed diagonally across image, adding rank. Fine condition.

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116: Militaria & Autograph Auction 2026 Day 1

Mar 26, 2026 10:00 AM EDT

Elkton, MD, United States

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OTTO TELSCHOW: (1876 - 1945) Anti-Semitic Gauleiter of Eastern Hannover from 1925 to 1945, founded the weekly Nazi newspaper Niedersachsen-Sturmer, and often gave speeches against Jews, Freemasons and Communists. La

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OTTO VON BULOW: (1911 – 2006) German U-boat commander, a recipient of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves. He sank 15 ships while in U-404, including a Royal Navy destroyer (HMS VETERAN), and damaged two other s

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OTTO WEISS: (1907 – 1955) Luftwaffe attack aircraft pilot and recipient of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, the first attack aircraft pilot so honored. Weiss flew more than 500 combat missions with the H

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SIEGFRIED UIBERREITHER: (1908 – 1984) Austrian Nazi Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of the Reichsgau Styria during the Third Reich. He was held at the former Dachau concentration camp but he fled in 1947 when he learne

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THEODORE EICKE: (1892 - 1943) Infamous commander of Dachau, Eicke encouraged his concentration camp staff to live up to their death's head symbol and treat Dachau's prisoners with 'inflexible harshness', fittingly ki

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VIKTOR LUTZE: (1890-1943) Leader of the SA who played an important part in the Night of the Long Knives, and was the first to inform Hitler of Ernst Rohm’s anti-party activities. Rare, war-date S.P. 3.5 x 5.5

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CARL ROVER: (1889 – 1942) Nazi Gauleiter of Gau Weser-Ems and Reichsstatthalter of both Oldenburg and Bremen. Rover supposedly suffered a stroke in May 1942 and died in Berlin soon afterwards, though many s

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ENGELBERT ENDRASS: (1911 – 1941) German U-boat commander of U-46 and U-567, credited with sinking 22 ships on ten patrols, for a total of 118,528 gross register tons (GRT). Recipient of the Knights Cross with Oak

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ERNST BOHLE: (1903 - 1960) Nazi Gauleiter of the overseas branch, accused of assisting Hess in writing a letter in English to the Duke of Hamilton, but cleared himself by claiming that be believed Hess had Hitler'

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FRANZ RITTER VON EPP: (1868 - 1947) Nazi politician and general, Governor of Bavaria and Reichsleiter of the NSDAP. Died in an internment camp. S.P., 3.25 x 5.25 in. b/w, a chest, up image showing von Epp scowling and in u

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FRITZ FESSMANN: (1913 - 1944) German Panzer officer, recipient of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. Fessmann was killed in action on 11 October 1944 when a Soviet shell exploded before him, throwing him

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HUGO PRIMOZIC: (1914 – 1996) German Sturmgeschutz (assault gun) ace and the first noncommissioned officer in the history of the German Army to be awarded the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves. Fine war-date S.P.,

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KARL OHNESORGE: (1872 – 1962) Nazi politician who sat in the Hitler Cabinet serving as Reichsminister of the Reich Postal Ministry. Ohnesorge also researched the promotion of the Nazi Party through the radio, i

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KURT DALUEGE: (1897 - 1946) Chief of Security Police in SD central office, appointed SS-Oberstgruppenfuehrer (1942), succeeded Heydrich as Deputy Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. Hanged by the Czechs in 1946. Fine

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MATHEW B. RIDGWAY: (1895-1994) American Army general who led the 82nd Airborne in assaults on Sicily and on D-Day, jumping with his men. T.L.S., 1p. 4to., Pittsburgh, Jun 3, 1988 to the 29th Infantry Division

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MATTHEW B. RIDGWAY: (1895 - 1994) American Army general who led airborne assaults on Sicily and commanded U.N. forces in the Korean War following the dismissal of MacArthur. His black ink signature on a Supreme

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