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ORIGINAL 1944 DOCUMENT, SIGNED BY THE HEAD OF WACHBATAILLON GROSSDEUTSCHLAND
WHO FOILED THE ATTEMPTED PUTSCH LED BY MAJOR CLAUS SCHENK GRAF VON STAUFFENBERG
GENERALMAJOR OTTO ERNST REMER
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The movie Valkyrie with Tom Cruise playing von Stauffenberg made this most famous of all individuals who tried to remove Hitler from power by killing him known to all who might not have heard from him before.
Generalmajor Otto Ernst Remer was the commanding officer of Wachbataillon Großdeutschland. On 20 July 1944 Wehrmacht officers under the leadership of Claus von Stauffenberg staged a coup d’état and attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by means of a bomb-attack at the “Wolf’s Lair” in East Prussia. Remer, who was in Berlin at the time, first heard news of it from members of the Nazi Party and waited for official word of Hitler’s fate. In the evening of 20 July 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg, the officer who had carried out the attack upon Hitler arrived back in Berlin, and, believing that he had succeeded in killing him, issued orders to Remer to arrest several senior Nazi Government officials, claiming that they were part of a coup. Upon being ordered by General Paul von Hase to arrest Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, Remer went to Goebbels’ office to do so. However, on arrival, Remer was met by Goebbels’ protestations that Hitler was still alive and had issued counter-orders to those Remer was enforcing. When Remer asked for proof, Goebbels picked up the phone and asked to be put through to Hitler at the “Wolf’s Lair”, then handed him the telephone receiver, upon which Remer heard Hitler’s voice, ordering him to crush the plot in Berlin with the troops under his command. Remer with this realised that he had been taking orders from the mutineers and returning with his troops to the Berlin Military Headquarters, Bendlerblock, he arrested the plotters, including Stauffenberg. Colonel general Friedrich Fromm had the plotters immediately summarily executed by firing squad, despite Remer’s protestations that he had been told to keep the plotters alive if possible pending further orders from Hitler, who was returning to Berlin (General Fromm himself would subsequently be executed by firing squad). That same night Remer was promoted two ranks to Oberst (Colonel), then to General in early 1945. [source: Wikipedia]
The document, dated 18 August 1944, only a few weeks after Stauffenberg’s failed putsch and addressed to a Stadtrat Werber. Remer thanks Werber for his gratefulness and for bestowing him with honorary citizenship of his hometown. Remer goes on saying that it is an honor for him to say that he only did his duty, following the oath that he gave and carrying out the personal orders of the Führer to arrest the cowardly traitors and to restore order. Every honorable officer would have done the same and that it makes him sad that there even were officers who disgraced the uniform in such a way. Heil Hitler! Signature and rank/position
We also have an original 1942 document signed by Graf Claus von Stauffenberg for sale:
ORIGINAL 1942 OKH DOCUMENT SIGNED BY GRAF VON STAUFFENBERG (VALKYRIE) | OD43
For the rest of the war, Remer commanded the Führerbegleitbrigade (FBB), a field unit formed from a Grossdeutschland cadre, in East Prussia, and during the Ardennes Offensive. He was captured by the United States Army towards the end of the war and remained a prisoner of war until 1947. He was a Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi activist for the rest of his life, became an advisor to Nasser in Egypt, arranged arms shipments to Arafat’s PLO. Remer died a free man in southern Spain in 1997 from natural
Here is Graf von Stauffenberg’s Wikipedia page: Claus von Stauffenberg – Wikipedia
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