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Lot 1020 |
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Hitler Jugend, the male arm of the Nazi youth movement, originally founded in 1922 as the Jungsturm Adolf Hitler to train recruits for the SA. It went through several reorganizations and expansions, in its final form in 1933, when Baldur von Schirach became the first Reichsjugendführer (Reich Youth Leader).
The lot consists of two pages, on a Hitler Youth performance award with facsimile signatures of von Schirach and Dr. Robert Ley, head of the German Labor Front; three covers (1939-44) with Hitler Jugend corner cards, one featuring a Hitler Jugend postage meter; and a photo ID folder showing dues paid by a member of the Sports Unit of the Marine Hitler Jugend.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 1021 |
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Fritz Todt (1891-1942), Engineer and senior Nazi figure; died in a plane crash during World War II; as Inspector General for German Roadways was responsible for building the autobahn; formed Organisation Todt (OT), joining government firms, private companies and the Reich Labor Service in the construction of the "West Wall" [later renamed the "Siegfried Line"] for the defense of the Reich territory; Minister of Armaments and War Production.
Two Typed Letters Signed on Inspector General for German Roadways letterhead, 13 Jul 1938, to Albert Bormann, Hitler's adjutant at Berchtesgaden, asking that a status report on "the work in the West [West Wall]" be presented to Hitler; 9 Jun 1939, to Wilhelm Brückner, another of Hitler's adjutant's and Eva Braun's bodyguard, reporting denigration of the West Wall by the foreign press and saying that he has composed a rebuttal that he requests be shown to Hitler.
Estimate 400 - 600
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Lot 1022 |
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German Airships, one page featuring a never hinged set of the U.S. 1930 Graf Zeppelin stamps (small gum disturbance on the $2.60) and a plate block of nine of the 1933 50¢ Graf Zeppelin; also a picture postcard from 1938 flown by the Graf Zeppelin II.
Estimate 1,500 - 2,000
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Lot 1023 |
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German Airships - Eckener and F.D.R., Typed Letter Signed, to President Roosevelt, carried on the first transatlantic voyage of the Hindenburg, 5 May 1936, thanking him for America's cooperation and expressing the "…hope that the cover will constitute a welcome addition to your collection." Includes the mailing envelope, which has H.R. Harmer's "Roosevelt Collection" handstamp on reverse, and the original 1946 auction folder (Lot 270). A unique Zeppelin collectible.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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Lot 1024 |
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German Airships - Hugo Eckener, Aeronautical engineer and airship designer, assistant to Count von Zeppelin, later president of the Zeppelin Airship Company.
Two pages featuring an Autograph Letter Signed (not shown), 18 Aug 1947, in English to film actress and world-traveler Clara [Claire] Adams, reminiscing about old times. The letter is written from Akron, Ohio, where Eckener was consulting with the Goodyear Company to try to revive the era of the big airships; also an Eckener signature across a 50pf German stamp featuring the gondola of the Graf Zeppelin and a set of German Chicago Flight Zeppelins, original gum, the 1m having sheet margin selvage stuck to reverse; plus six related picture postcards (one not shown).
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 1025 |
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German Airships - Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), German airship designer; designed and built rigid airships including one that took his name, "Graf [Count] Zeppelin" making the word Zeppelin the generic term for all rigid airships.
Document Signed, 1 May 1914, Stuttgart, receipt for payment of 60 marks; also two German stamps bearing his likeness.
Estimate 400 - 600
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Lot 1026 |
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German Airships - Hindenburg Disaster, Cover retrieved from the wreckage at Lakehurst, N.J. after the fire that destroyed the airship after its arrival on 6 May 1937. Mailed originally from Rotterdam, Netherlands on 1 May, the cover is franked with a 12½c Scout stamp and mailed to a Mr. G. Thoolen in Wooster, Ohio. It bears the red Frankfurt Zeppelin mail cachet and is one of only 23 pieces of Dutch mailed recovered
Also included is a cover flown on the Hindenburg on a flight from Frankfurt to Cologne, 1 May 1937, its final flight before leaving for America, and a registered card intended for the return flight to Germany with the handstamp "Intended for first eastbound flight of Airship 'Hindenburg' in 1937. Could not be forwarded on account of accident to Airship, May 6, 1937".
Estimate 12,000 - 15,000
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Lot 1027 |
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Hitler's Music - Richard Wagner and Wilhelm Furtwangler, To Hitler, Wagner was an idol and an inspiration. "For me," he said, "Wagner is someone godly", includes a Letter Signed by Wagner, 16 Mar 1869, giving information on copyrights to Die Meistersinger and Lohengrin; Furtwangler, master conductor and one of Hitler's favorites, a major contributor to the Third Reich musical scene, postcard size signed photo; also includes three additional Wagner picture postcards from the '30s, two with commemorative cancels.
Estimate 2,500 - 3,000
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Lot 1028 |
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Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Composer, appointed head of the Reichsmusikkamer, the institution that controlled German music.
Musical bars from Strauss' greatest opera, Der Rosenkavalier, penned and signed by him, 8 May 1947, along with a First Day Cover of a stamp issued in his honor by West Berlin in 1954.
Estimate 1,500 - 2,000
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Lot 1029 |
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Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German novelist, winner of 1929 Nobel Prize for literature, outspoken critic of the Nazi Party. In May of 1933 Nazi Storm troops invaded Libraries and book stores to destroy books by Jewish, Marxist and other "disreputable" writers. Mann works, ironically, were not among those put to the fire, apparently due to his international fame. In 1936 his German citizenship was revoked and he moved to the U.S. from Switzerland.
signature as part of return address on reverse of a 1947 cover mailed while living in the U.S.; also signature on a strip of 2¢ U.S. stamps from the 1930s.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 1030 |
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Sports, Max Schmeling, Sports were heavily promoted by Third Reich propagandists.
Included in this lot is a signed photo of boxer Max Schmeling, who supplied an unexpected bit of propaganda when he knocked out Joe Louis in 1935 and a typed letter signed by Schmeling, 7 April 1935, offering thanks for congratulations on his 10 March defeat of Steve Hamas; also a card picturing Reichssportsfuhrer and German Olympic Committee President, Tschammer von Osten, and a 1938 postmark publicizing an England-Germany soccer match.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 1031 |
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Olympics, Jesse Owens (1913-1980), African-American Olympic sprinter and long jumper who won four gold medals in Hitler's Olympics, which were supposed to demonstrate Aryan supremacy.
Signatures on a German postal card issued for the 1936 Olympics and on a souvenir sheet issued for the same event.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 1032 |
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Wilhelm Frick, The top Nazis were mostly old party comrades of Hitler's. Despite the evils they were perpetrating on their fellow man, among themselves they tended to follow conventional rules of social propriety.
Group of six Telegrams sent to Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick on the occasion of his 61st birthday, 12 Mar 1938; comprises two from Hitler [no doubt by two different aids who failed to communicate with each other], and one each from Göring, Goebbels, Ley and Ribbentrop.
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500
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Lot 1033 |
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Anti-Semitism, Four pages including a 1939 Austrian "Jewish Property Tax" assessment of 1350 reichsmarks; a P.O.W. lettersheet from Auschwitz concentration camp from a Polish prisoner to his wife, 17 Sep 1943; a multicolor postal card featuring the "Eternal Jew" caricature; two covers with return addresses illustrating the Decree of 17 Aug 1938: that newborn Jews could receive only those given names approved by the Ministry of the Interior and that, as of 1 Jan 1939, they were obligated to take second given name—Israel for Males, Sara for females; and a 1970 U.S. cover signed by Martin Niemöller, a Protestant clergyman and outspoken Nazi critic who was arrested in 1937 and survived the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 1034 |
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Concentration Camps, Five pages illustrated with appropriate stamps, cards and covers including Simon Wiesenthal, famed Nazi war criminal hunter, private postcard bearing an imprinted "stamp" showing Mauthausen, published by Wiesenthal to help fund his search, signed and mailed by him in May 1946; feldpost cover and letter from a Waffen SS guard stationed at Mauthausen; 1943 parcel card mailed by a P.O.W. in the Majdanek camp at Lublin; 1939 signature of Walter Funk, Reichsbank president, who had an agreement with Himmler for the Reichsbank to receive all the gold, jewels and money taken from Jews exterminated in the death camps; a 1940 feldpost card from an SS guard at Dachau; a P.O.W. cover and message from Dachau, 16 May 1941; cover postmarked 10 Nov 1945 to Dachau with the censor mark of the War Crimes Commission; and a pictorial feldpost lettersheet with a "touching" photo of Hitler gazing at a Christmas tree, mailed 16 Jan 1943 by an S.S. guard at Buchenwald camp.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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