Request for Identification of Generals and Admirals
Hi Max!
You posted whilst I was formulating my reply to croat. I have to admit that it never occurred to me that a Japanese officer would visit the Eastern front (that is my guess as to the setting of the photo), but on reflection of your input, that could explain Busch's smile and relaxed demeanour that comes out of the pic. Additionally, I think the officer on the extreme right of the pic (half a torso in view) is also Japanese.
Regards,
VJK
You posted whilst I was formulating my reply to croat. I have to admit that it never occurred to me that a Japanese officer would visit the Eastern front (that is my guess as to the setting of the photo), but on reflection of your input, that could explain Busch's smile and relaxed demeanour that comes out of the pic. Additionally, I think the officer on the extreme right of the pic (half a torso in view) is also Japanese.
Regards,
VJK
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Thanks for your input, guys! I was thinking that perhaps it was a Red Army officer, and that the meeting was taking place during the invasion of Poland, while Germany and the Soviet Union were still allies...but looking at the photo now, it makes much more sense that the officer is a visiting Japanese dignitary!
Best regards to all from the frozen Canadian tundra.
Best regards to all from the frozen Canadian tundra.
Glad to help! Busch holds a nostalgic place in my “research history.” He was the first German general that I became interested in enough to request his Personal-Nachweis/Dienstlaufbahn from Germany way back in October 1994! Seeing a small photo of Busch in Hans Dollinger’s The Decline and Fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan: A Pictorial History of the Final Days of World War II sparked my initial question: who is this field marshal with the Pour le Mérite and why can’t I find more than a passing mention of him in the standard literature!
Regards,
Shawn
Regards,
Shawn
Sigfrid Henrici?
Any chance the general/officer to the right of Brauchitsch was Sigfrid Henrici?
Cheers
Freiherr
Cheers
Freiherr
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Sigfrid Henrici ?
Hi Freiherr from Middle Earth
Gen. Gottard Henrici was a short middle-aged man of scruffy appearance (rather like me actually) who was cousin to von Rundstedt.
He wore threadbare uniforms, with a sheepskin overcoat and WW1 leggings. Most infamous for refusing to relive Hitler and berlin in 1945 with Army Group Vistula.
Your pic could not be Gottard Henricci if this helps to exclude him.
Cheers Simon
Gen. Gottard Henrici was a short middle-aged man of scruffy appearance (rather like me actually) who was cousin to von Rundstedt.
He wore threadbare uniforms, with a sheepskin overcoat and WW1 leggings. Most infamous for refusing to relive Hitler and berlin in 1945 with Army Group Vistula.
Your pic could not be Gottard Henricci if this helps to exclude him.
Cheers Simon