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Lot 1048 |
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Wehrmacht (Army) and Schutzstaffel (SS), Five pages including signature of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the Wehrmacht High Command and Hitler's chief military advisor; an "SS-Soldbuch", an identification book documenting the military history of one Alois Arnold; a 1944 SS "Wehrpass" documenting the emerging military career of one Gerhardt Povombka, born 19 Oct 1925, who first joined the SS Panzer Reconaissance unit of the SS Panzer Division Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler, the first SS Division formed; and a 4-page SS recruiting brochure aimed at members of the Hitler Jugend and Labor Service.
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500
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Lot 1049 |
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Hitler and the SS-Division "Das Reich", Document Signed, 21 Dec 1940, on gold-embossed personal letterhead, Order signed just a day prior to the surprise attack on Russia known as Operation Barbarossa, renaming the Second SS Panzer Division as the SS-Division "Das Reich"; SS General Paul Hausser, "father" of the Waffen SS (with the nickname "Papa" Hausser) and commander of the SS-Division "Das Reich", Autograph Letter Signed, 14 May 1959 from Ludwigsburg (not translated) and a 1944 cover from Germany via Airfeldpost to a staff member of "Das Reich" division in S. Russia, forwarded to France by surface mail.
Estimate 10,000 - 15,000
"Das Reich" division is one of the finest, the best known and most researched of all of the 38 divisions fielded by the Waffen SS in World War II.
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Lot 1050 |
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Albert Kesselring (1885-1960), General Field Marshal, Luftwaffe commander and one of the most respected and skillful of Germany's generals; sentenced to death at Nuremberg but had his entence commuted to life imprisonment.
Document Signed, 11 Aug 1945, "Albert Kesselring, Generalfeldmarschall", as British P.O.W. Kesselring agrees to submit to house rules and not to escape; also two picture postcards, one of Kesselring and one of a Luftwaffe paratrooper. A unique Kesselring document.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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Lot 1051 |
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Erwin Rommel (1891-1944), German Field Marshal, legendary World War II "Panzer" tank commander in North Africa, forced to commit suicide after being implicated in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
Autograph Letters Signed, 1937 picture postcard written to his wife, Lu, while attending a military weapons school at Obermassfeld; also includes the Tunis "Africa Corps" parcel stamp (Michel) and a propaganda feldpost card showing a Germany tank "breaking through" at Ardennes.
Estimate 2,500 - 3,000
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Lot 1052 |
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Luftwaffe (Air Force), Four pages featuring autographs of Erhard Milch, Field Marshal and deputy to Göring, Werner Moelders, top ace of the Condor Legion; Erich Hartmann, the most famous German fighter pilot, credited with 352 air kills, imprisoned by the Soviets for 10 years after the war; and Willy Messerschmitt, builder of the German fighter planes that ruled the skies in the early years of the war; also a Savings Book, with an initial gift of 1,000 marks, given in the name of Hermann Göring to orphans of all German pilots killed in action.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 1053 |
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Hermann Göring, Typed Letter Signed, 30 Sep 1938, as Reichsminister of Aviation and Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, to Heinrich Himmler, notifying him that Hitler was awarding him the Air Protection Medal, 1st Class; also a 1937 cover featuring Göring's corner card as head of Germany's 4-Year Plan to gain national self-sufficiency and bearing a slogan postmark publicizing the same plan.
Estimate 1,500 - 2,000
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Lot 1054 |
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Kriegsmarine (Navy), Two pages featuring signed photos of Admiral Karl Dönitz, Commander of U-Boat forces, later Commander of the Navy and, for 23 days after Hitler's suicide, the President of the Third Reich; and Otto Kretschmer, the most decorated U-Boat Captain of World War II; also two more Dönitz signatures on a card bearing a German stamp honoring the U-Boat forces; a March 1945 feldpost cover from the command unit of the 11th U-Boat flotilla bearing the division handstamp; and two covers "Salved at Sea" from the S.S. Eros one of the ships in an eastbound convoy attacked and mostly sunk by U-Boats.
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500
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Erich Raeder (1876-1960), Grand Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy; resigned in 1943 over disagreements with Hitler and replace by Dönitz; convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg and sentenced to life imprisonment but released in September 1955 due to poor health.
Autograph Letter Signed, 7 Apr 1946, P.O.W. card from Spandau Prison to a Rev. H. Hermenau, postmarked Nuremberg; also a picture postcard featuring a photo of Raeder in formal uniform.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 1056 |
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Hitler and the V-2 Rocket, Führer's Decree dated 25 July 1943, signed by Hitler, ordering the stepping up of production of the A-4 ballistic weapon, which would soon be renamed the V-2, in part
"The successful continuation of the war against England requires the production of the A 4 in the greatest possible numbers without delay. Any measures taken to ensure an immediate increase in A 4 production are to be given every possible support. German production centers for the A 4 and all their suppliers and subcontractors are to be immediately provided with skilled German workers, raw materials, machines and energy. Such Provision must be unstinting… "
Very Good condition, toned around the edges with bisecting folds, missing lower left corner and a trivial bit of missing paper at other corners; Also includes a Werner von Braun signature on card; a censored postal card from Sangerhausen, area of the Mittelbau/ Dora concentration camp where slave labor was employed to assemble the V-2s; a commercial registered cover from Peenemünde, one of the primary launching sites of the V-2; a 1934 Gerhard Zucker "Harz Mountain" rocket cover, a pre-cursor to the V-2.
Estimate 15,000 - 20,000
Expertization: PSA/DNA Certificate of Authenticity.
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Lot 1057 |
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Banking and Industry - I.G. Farben and Krupp Industries, Four pages: two documents from I.G. Farben, Germany's largest cartel producing everything from synthetic rubber to gasoline including the poison gas used in the death camps; 1939 Typed Letter Signed from Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, head of Krupp Industries, a major manufacturer of armaments, test firing of weapons; covers from Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest private bank; and a 1937 Typed Letter Signed from Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, to Wilhelm Frick, Minister of the Interior.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 1058 |
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German Propaganda forgeries of British stamps (Michel 1-2), on printed leaflet with GPO logo and Soviet Hammer & Sickle inscribed in English and Russian "Special-Stamp in Memory of the First Day of the Invasion"; slight perf toning on the stamps but the leaflet is very scarce.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 1059 |
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Miscellaneous Third Reich Collateral, Eight pages with various stamps, covers and cards including propaganda leaflets and labels, picture postcards featuring portraits and facsimile signatures of Hitler, background on the origins of the Swastika, etc.
Estimate 500 - 750
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