(Heer Bilder). A lot of four photographs of Generalmajor Julius von Bernuth, including a studio portrait, depicting von Bernuth in uniform and wearing the Knight’s Cross and a ribbon bar with seven decorations, the reverse marked “FOTO SEIDEL”, undated, measuring 104 mm (w) x 147 mm (h), in extremely fine condition; a photograph of von Bernuth in the field with an unidentified Heer officer and civilian, unmarked and undated, measuring 176 mm (w) x 128 mm (h), in extremely fine condition; a photograph of von Bernuth with AH and Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt on the Eastern Front, the reverse with an unspoiled postcard arrangement, with a studio mark of “KUNSTVERLAGSANSTALT BRUNO HANSMANN, KASSEL”, undated, measuring 148 mm (w) x 104 mm (h), in extremely fine condition, and; a photograph of von Bernuth in the field with Field Marshal Günther von Kluge, the reverse with a handwritten inscription of “JULIUS MIT V. KLUGE, 1940”, measuring 117 mm (w) x 88 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.
Footnote: Julius von Bernuth was born in Metz on 12 August 1897. He served with distinction in the Imperial German Army during the First World War, winning both classes of the Iron Cross, the Hessen General Honour Decoration, and the Black Grade Wound Badge, reaching the rank of Leutnant by the end of the conflict. After the war, von Bernuth briefly served with the Freikorps before returning to military service with the Reichswehr on 1 October 1919. He was a participant in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923, and was later awarded the Blood Order. By the start of the Second World War, von Bernuth rose to Staff Officer and participated in both the invasion of Poland as well as the Western European campaign, where he was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross. Promoted to Generalmajor, von Bernuth was transferred to the Eastern Front, where he was killed in a plane crash near Stalingrad on 12 July 1942.