CARL-HANS GRAF VON HARDENBERG (resistance fighter July 20, 1944) - autograph

• CARL-HANS GRAF VON HARDENBERG (resistance fighter July 20, 1944) - autograph

Early pencil signature from 1915.

At that time he was still a company commander in the Garde Regiment on foot.

In 1940 he became adjutant to Field Marshal Fedor von Bock and in 1941 witnessed a mass execution of Jews by Latvian SS units near Borissow.

Von Hardenberg was persecuted because of his significant involvement in the Walküre operation, he was to act as the senior president of the province of Brandenburg and the city of Berlin. His estate in Neuhardenberg, which was only 70 km from Berlin, became a regular meeting place for the resistance group.

On July 20, he was the contact person for the General Command Wehrkreis III.

On July 24, he tried to kill himself and after the unsuccessful suicide he was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

A trial was prepared against von Hardenberg and the death penalty was requested. However, the liberation of the concentration camp by the Red Army preceded this.