Postcard from Feldmarshall August Von Machensen Boldly Signed by Him, February 16, 1943

He acknowledges his birthday greeting from von Trotha on his 94th birthday (1849--1945). Dated December 16, 1943 (his birthday was on December 6). As a Feldmarshall in World War I he commanded Army Group Mackensen), after the Armistice, the Allies had him interned in Serba for one year. In 1933 Herman Goring made him a Pruessian state councellor. He often appeard in officila functions in his World War I uniform and Nazi leaders suspected him of disloyalty. On February 4, 1940 he wrote to Generaloberst Walter von Brauchitsch about his return to private life but mentions the crimes done in Poland and notes the Army's honor should be maintained inspite of the hired subhumans and criminals. Both Hitler and Goebbels suspect him of disloyalty but avoided taking action. He died on November 8, 1945 at the age of 95, his life having spanned the Kingdom of Prussia, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime and the postwar Allied occupation of Germany.