Signed Photo Postcard of Field Marshal Walter Model, Recipient of the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds

The period signed postcard measures approximately 3-1/2 inches y 5-1/2 inches. The reverse bears a recipient’s name and address with a 1943 date.

In August 1944 Model was sent to the Western Front as commander of OB West and Army Group B. His relationship with Hitler broke down by the end of the war after the German defeat at the Battle of the Bulge. In the aftermath of the defeat of Army Group B and its encirclement in the Ruhr Pocket, Model took his own life on 21 April 1945.