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ORIGINAL 1940 SIGNATURE – GENERAL WALDEMAR ERFURTH
Original signature on letter dated 1943 to publisher E.S. Mittler & Sohn.
“Your kind interest in my promotion has given me great pleasure. I should like to express my most sincere thanks for your congratulatory telegram.”
WALDEMAR ERFURTH was born in Berlin. He served in World War I, winning the Iron Cross 1st Class and the Knight’s Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern. After the war, he continued in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic. During the Second World War, he was a liaison officer in the Finnish headquarters 1941–44. He wrote a book about the Murmansk railroad and a war journal from 1944. He died in Tübingen.
