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Karl-Wilhelm Specht, signed photo, black ink signed SPECHT, bold clear signature, scarce Third Reich signature.
photo is cut and glued to black paper, size 3 1/2×5 in.
Karl-Wilhelm Specht (22 May 1894 – 3 December 1953) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. He served on the “Court of Military Honour,” a drumhead court-martial that expelled many of the officers involved in the 20 July Plot from the army before handing them over to the People’s Court. Specht surrendered to the Soviet forces at the end of the war and died on 3 December 1953 in pow camp

During the war kids were encouraged to collect signatures from Germany’s war heroes. The most wealthy purchased photo cards of the KC winner and other Third Reich personalities and sent them to be signed. Those not as wealthy would instead send slips of paper to KC winners to sign. In many cases the youth would then attach a photo from a paper or a magazine and put it in their collection