Auction 88
Historical Militaria, Autographs, and Ephemera Auction, Feb. 8 & 9, 2021
By Alexander Historical Auctions LLC
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Feb 8, 2021
98 Bohemia Ave., St. 2, Chesapeake City, MD 21915, United States
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1,400 lots of historical militaria from all conflicts; historical autographs and ephemera from all fields of collecting.
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LOT 292:
SOVIET DOSSIER SENDS TWO DESERTERS TO PENALTY BATTALIONS
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Sold for: $180
Start price:
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100
Estimated price :
$200 - $300
Buyer's Premium: 30%
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SOVIET DOSSIER SENDS TWO DESERTERS TO PENALTY BATTALIONS
Excellent and rare complete dossier from the Special Department of the NKVD, 41pp. 4to., 1940, issued against two Russian soldiers serving in the 301 Artillery Regiment. The two deserters, Michael Ivontson and Ivan Lukachev, planned to surrender to the Germans but were apprehended and sentenced to ten years in the gulags after the completion of their service and an immediate transfer to the infamous 'Shtrafbat' or penalty battalions - a penal military branch and a sure death sentence to most that were sent there. The total number of people convicted to penal units from September 1942 to May 1945 was 422,700, though very few of them were known to have survived the war. Light edgewear, but otherwise fine condition.
