A hardbound visitors book, 8.75 x 11, from Munich dating from the end of World War II, featuring a decorative leather cover featuring embossed oak leaves, containing thirty-nine fountain pen signatures. Signatures include the seventeen newspaper executives who were invited by General Eisenhower to visit the liberated concentration camps, including Dachau, in 1945. Executive signatures include Stanley High (Reader’;s Digest), Malcolm Bingay (Detroit Free Press), Ben Hibbs (Saturday Evening Post), Bruce Kelway (Washington Evening Star), E. Z. Dimitman (Chicago Sun), M. E. Walter (Houston Chronicle), Duke Shoop (Kansas City Star), William Nichols (This Week Magazine) and Julius Ochs Adler (New York Times). Other signatures of note contained in the book include General Alexander Patch (Seventh Army Commander), Colonel Barton Spivey, Douglas MacArthur II, Colonel Stuart Beach, Eugene Harrison, General Paul Adams, Senator Everett Dirksen and other American military and political figures. In fine condition, with some light wear to cover and inlays, spine a touch weak and front cover partially detached from spine. R&R COA.
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