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RARE FIELD MARSHAL GEORG VON KUCHLER SIGNED PHOTO, VON KUCHLER IN BLUE INK, FINE

Georg Carl Wilhelm Friedrich von Küchler (30 May 1881 – 25 May 1968) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, who was subsequently convicted of war crimes. He commanded the 18th Army and Army Group North during the Soviet-German war of 1941–1945.

After the end of the war, he was tried in the High Command Trial, as part of the Subsequent Nuremberg trials. On 27 October 1948 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Soviet Union. He was released in 1953.

GEORG VON KUCHLER
(1881 – 1968) German Field Marshal and a recipient of the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves. His 18th Army was instrumental in the taking of the Low Countries and the encirclement of the British at Dunkirk but was later unable to take Leningrad.