German WW2 Iron Cross Certificate FERDINAND SCHAAL Panzer 10th Div. GENERAL

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German WW2 Iron Cross Certificate FERDINAND SCHAAL Panzer 10th Div. Commander
This is incredible.  There was is Iron Cross with the lot.
Schaal was involved in Operation Valkyrie.
Ferdinand Friedrich Schaal
(7 February 1889 – 9 October 1962) was a German general during World War II
. He commanded the 10th Panzer Division
in the 1939 Invasion of Poland
and directed the successful Siege of Calais
in 1940. Schaal was involved in the unsuccessful 20 of July plot
against Adolf Hitler
; for his participation in the conspiracy, he was imprisoned until the end of the war.
German commander of the 10th Panzer Division involved in the Polish campaign and in the taking of Calais, later implicated in the July 20 plot and imprisoned until war's end. War-date D.S. in indelible pencil, 1p. 8vo., Dec. 19, 1941, an award of the Iron Cross 2nd Class to a member of Nebelwerfer Reg. 51.
On 20 July 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg and
other conspirators
attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia, now Kętrzyn, in present-day Poland.
The plan was known as Operation Valkyrie. The idea was that, once Hitler was dead, the military would claim that the assassination was part of an attempted coup by the Nazi Party and the Reserve Army would seize key installations in Berlin and arrest high-ranking Nazi leadership.