Iron Cross Certificate - 23. Tank Division - Major General HANS VON BOINEBURG-LENGSFELD Autograph

Award Certificate for the Iron Cross 2nd Class.

 

Staff II./ Panzergrenadier Regiment 128

 

Issued on 16.11.1942.

 

Ink signature of the commander of the 23rd Tank Division, Major General HANS VON BOINEBURG-LENGSFELD (Knight's Cross 19.7.1940).

 

During Operation Valkyrie on July 20, 1944, he played a leading role in the arrest of the top Gestapo and SS officers, including the Higher SS and Police Leader in France, SS Gruppenführer Carl Oberg, and their units in Paris.

 

About 1200 SS and SD men were arrested in Paris.

 

When after a few hours the failure of the assassination attempt was reported and those arrested in Paris were released, Hans von Boineburg-Lengsfeld explained the action to them as an "exercise".

 

He was lucky and was not identified as a co-conspirator because General von Stülpnagel remained silent.

 

Rare signature of a resistance fighter from July 20, 1944.

 

The document is folded and perforated.