Honor Roll Document To Cpt.salzmann Who Attempted Ah Assassination Auction Merrow Woods

Merrow Woods

a truly impressive collectible from the Great War

3mm(w) x 71

It stands just outside the main entrance to Valletta

with only 3-4 examaples known

Honor Roll Document To Cpt.salzmann Who Attempted Ah Assassination Auction Merrow WoodsSpecial Honor Roll Document Army Awarded to Walter Schmidt Salzmann, one of only five awarded to Heer Cavalry Troops: Cavalry Captain, from April 1943 Major. Recipient of the Iron Cross 1st, 2nd Class, and the German Cross in Gold. In 1943 he was prepared to lead a ten man Officer team which was to covertly assassinate the Fuhrer with his bodyguards during a visit to the Eastern Front. The plan was that Hitler should be shot by a whole group of