Photo of the future General D. Karbyshev when he was chairman of the Military Technical Committee of the Red Army

The original photo is in excellent collector's condition. The photo is pasted on cardboard 17.3*13 cm; the stationery glue has partially dried. There is a comment on the back in red pencil. Slight losses at the edges of the photo. Guarantee of authenticity.

Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev (1880-1945) — Russian and Soviet fortifier, the largest Russian scientist and military engineer. Lieutenant General of the Engineering Troops. Doctor of Military Sciences, Professor at the Military Academy of the Red Army General Staff. Hero of the Soviet Union (1946, posthumously). In August 1941 Karbyshev was severely concussed in battle, and was captured unconscious. I've been through a lot of camps. I have repeatedly received offers from the camp administration to cooperate. Subsequently, the following entry was found in the German archives: "...This major Soviet fortifier, a career officer of the old Russian army, a man who was over sixty years old, turned out to be fanatically devoted to the idea of loyalty to military duty and patriotism. (...) Karbyshev can be considered hopeless in the sense of being used by us as a specialist in military engineering." (...) To be sent to the Flossenburg concentration camp for hard labor, no discounts on rank and age." On the night of February 17-18, 1945, after brutal torture, the fascists took General Karbyshev out into the cold, stripped him of all his clothes and poured cold water over him until the general's body turned into an ice column. Karbyshev was 64 years old at the time.