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GEN/LEUT HELMUT VON PANNWITZ/(1888-1947). Lieutenant General, Commander of the Cossack Corps and bearer of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, proposal for awarding the KVK 1st class with swords,
ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING FIGURES OF WW2

Von Pannwitz and his Cossacks surrendered to the English, who had promised not to extradite them to the Soviet Union – this promise was not kept and almost all those extradited were murdered or, as von Pannwitz, executed.
NOTE; 1 PG. DOUBLE SIDED, BOLDY SIGNED IN BLUE PENCIL, VG, HAS SMALL REPAIRED TEAR TO TOP CORNER / RARE AUTOGRAPH

Helmuth von Pannwitz (14 October 1898 – 16 January 1947) was a German general who was a cavalry officer during the First and the Second World Wars. Later he became Lieutenant General of the Wehrmacht and of the Waffen-SS, SS-Obergruppenführer, and Supreme Ataman of the XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps. In 1947 he was tried for war crimes under Ukase 43 by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, sentenced to death on 16 January 1947 and executed in Lefortovo Prison the same day. He was rehabilitated by a military prosecutor in Moscow in April 1996. In June 2001, however, the reversal of the conviction of Pannwitz was overturned and his conviction was reinstated.