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VASILY I. CHUIKOV

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Militaria Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 400.00 USD
VASILY I. CHUIKOV
(1900 - 1982) Russian general who was an essential planner and director of the battle of Stalingrad, his forces headed the spearhead to Berlin, where he had the honor of receiving the surrender of the city from General Krebs. Fine association D.S., 1p.large 4to. [Moscow, 1949], a forwarding endorsement on a Russian translation of a letter sent to Chuikov by German Communist Party leader and builder of the Berlin Wall, Walter Ulbricht requesting that orders concerning German reparations due to the Soviet Union be forwarded to the temporary government of the German Democratic Republic. Files holes, and dockets, overall very good. Following the end of the war, East Germany was virtually stripped clean of its assets as a form of "reparations" made to the Soviets.

Estimate: $300 - 400.

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