Bidspirit auction | HANS GOLLNICK

HANS GOLLNICK - (1892 - 1970) German general and a recipient of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, commanded the German infantry regiment repulsed at the charge at Krojanty, where Polish cavalry repulsed his force. The incident prompted false reports of Polish cavalry attacking German tanks, after journalists saw the bodies of horses and cavalrymen. Nazi propaganda took advantage of this, suggesting that the Poles attacked intentionally, believing that the Germans still had the dummy tanks that the Versailles treaty restrictions had permitted them. The scene of Polish cavalry charging the Panzers with their lances has become a modern-day myth. Post-war T.L.S. on his personal letterhead, 1p. 4to., Hamburg, Oct. 23, 1962 in German asking his American correspondent to write to him in German.Very good.