KEITEL BODEWIN: (1888-1953) German General of World War II who served as head of the Army Personnel Office. Brother of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel. D.S., Keitel, one page, 8vo, Hauptquartier, 20^th April 1942, in German. The partially printed document, completed in typescript, is an award document in which Hauptmann Dr. Hermann Volckmann is made the recipient of the War Merit Cross 1^st Class with Swords. Signed by Keitel at the foot alongside an official circular stamp featuring the Nazi eagle and swastika. Together with an unsigned vintage postcard photograph of Keitel seated in a half-length pose wearing his uniform, and also including an A.L.S. by Ilse Keitel, on two sides of a plain postcard, Gottingen, 10^th June 1958, to Stephen Bumball, in German (untranslated). Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Keitel and signed ('Frau I. Keitel') by her in the return address panel to the verso. VG to about EX, 3