Generalleutnant HANS-HEINRICH SIXT VON ARMIN - Autograph

• Generalleutnant HANS-HEINRICH SIXT VON ARMIN - Autograph

Letter of recommendation for a soldier from 1926.

17th Infantry Regiment

Handwritten with the signature of the later Lieutenant General HANS-HEINRICH SIXT VON ARMIN (Knight's Cross September 22, 1941, German Cross in Gold September 6, 1942).

In early June 1942 he took over the 113th Infantry Division, which he led into the Battle of Stalingrad. Here he was taken prisoner by the Soviets on January 20, 1943, during which he became a close confidante of Friedrich Paulus.

He died in 1952 as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union.