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Lot 1069 |
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Austria - Dollfuss, Schuschnigg and Seyss-Inquart, Three pages including a copy of a 1934 speech made by Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss, Austria's Chancellor, who was assassinated by the Nazis in an attempted coup d'etat, plus the 1934, 1935, and 1936 stamps issued to commemorate his death, the latter, Scott 380, is L.H. with a slightly short perf at top; signed photo of Kurt von Schuschnigg, Dollfuss' successor, who tried to keep Austria independent but who, in 1938, was compelled to sign an agreement which led to German control; typed letter signed by Artur Seyss-Inquart, Austria's Minister of the Interior, who, in 1938, "agreed" to the German invasion of his country, and a 1942 official cover from the Hague, where Seyss-Inquart was the Reichskommissar; also three covers and three cards promoting "Anschluss" and the 10 Apr 1938 Austrian plebiscite, in which 99% of the voters opted to reunite the Germanic people of the two countries; and two small fliers (not shown) distributed in Austria by the Nazi Party declaring "1 May, holiday for national workers" and "Hitler brings work…bread".
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500
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Lot 1070 |
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Danzig, Saar and the Rhineland, Three pages featuring five scarce and colorful propaganda cards promoting the fact that both Danzig and Saar "are German"; also a TLS from Albert Forster, Nazi Gauleiter of Danzig, to Nazi idealog Alfred Rosenberg, all during the 1930s, Forster had been secretly making preparations for a German takeover of Danzig.
Estimate 400 - 600
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Lot 1071 |
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Sudetenland, Slovakia, Bohemia & Moravia, On 29 Sep 1938, the leaders of Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain met in Munich to discuss Hitler's plan to have all areas of Czechoslovakia whose population consisted of more than 50% Sudeten Germans turned over to Germany, in order to assure Czechoslovakia's "peace and safety". The result was the Munich Agreement. Germany entered Czechoslovakia on 1 October and ten days later had taken over the Sudetenland.
Seven pages, illustrated with appropriate stamps and cards and including autographs in various forms of Dr. Edouard Benes, president of Czechoslovakia, made to resign at Hitler's insistence; General Franz Halder, Hitler's army Chief of Staff, who was concerned that the invasion of Czechoslovakia would ignite war; Konstantin von Neurath, Minister of Foreign Affairs, then Reichsprotektor of Bohemia & Moravia (two TLsS); General Hans Ludin of the SA, who became Ambassador to Slovakia; Konrad Heinlein, Czech-German leader and founder of the Sudeten Nazi Party, who became Reichskommissar of the Sudetenland.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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Lot 1072 |
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1943 Heydrich Presentation sheet (Michel 131 footnote), the so-called "Heydrich Block" that was given out to officials attending the ceremonies honoring the first anniversary of Heydrich's assassination, full never hinged original gum, numbered "89" of 1,000 printed with matching numbered envelope, also including the presentation booklet containing a single and block of 4 of the issued stamp (and, of course, the large block of 90 used as a background for the page).
Michel €20,000 ($21,600)
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Lot 1073 |
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Theriesienstadt, Theriesienstadt, the notorious walled ghetto in Czechoslovakia, was the only concentration camp officially inspected by the Red Cross—but only after the construction of dummy stores, a bank, a café gardens and other amenities to fool the world about the prisoners' treatment. 1943 Parcel Authorization label (Mi. 1, 1 UI), full sheet of 25, imperforate at left, also with double perforations vertically between the bottom three stamps in the 4th and 5th columns, resulting in a natural separation between those stamps (which, in turn, resulted in a light crease of the middle stamp in the last column); original gum, never hinged, F-VF, each stamp signed Gilbert.
Michel €9,700 as singles ($10,480)
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Lot 1074 |
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Poland, Five pages featuring appropriate stamps and covers plus an Autograph Letter Signed of General Isydor Modeleski, head of the Polish military mission in London and a cut signature of Alexander of Tunis, commander of the armies that included the Polish II Corps of General Wladaslaw Anders.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 1075 |
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Hans Frank, Hitler's Minister of Justice, then Governor-General of occupied Poland; sentenced to death at Nuremberg and hanged.
Autograph Letter Signed, 5 September 1935, as Minister of Justice; also includes British propaganda parody of a General Government stamp with Frank's portrait in place of Hitler's (Michel 33, €600) and a postal card mailed from the Warsaw Ghetto with the Judenrat (governing council) censor handstamp.
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500
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Lot 1076 |
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Lodz/Litzmannstadt, The Nazis made the city of Lodz the capital of their General Government in 1939, renaming it Litzmannstadt after World War I General Karl Litzmann. In 1940 the Jews there were forced into a ghetto and the service of the Third Reich's war economy, producing textiles, boots, electrical devices and munitions.
Set of three Ghetto-Post locals (Mi. II-V) featuring Ghetto leader Chaim Rumkowsky; also an inmate's packet receipt initialed by Rumkowsky as the senior Jew in the Ghetto.
Estimate 400 - 600
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Lot 1077 |
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Maxime Weygand and Dunkirk, General Weygand was the French chief of staff who had read the surrender terms to the Germans at the end of World War I; he was also the Supreme Allied Commander at the time of the fall of France in World War II and it was he who was forced to capitulate.
Autograph Letter Signed, 23 Feb 1930, mentioning Marshal Petain; also cover bearing Dunkirk local overprint (Michel) from Arneke to Dunkirk, 3 Aug 1940.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 1078 |
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Marshal Henri Phillipe Petain (1856-1951), French military hero of World War I, became Premier of the Vichy government of France, trying to crush the French underground; convicted of treason after the war but DeGaulle had his death sentence commuted.
Signed photo dated 1929 and signature on card, plus a signature of his wife Annie on a card, signed in 1947 while living in exile; also includes a sheet of 25 French propaganda forgeries of a stamp picturing Petain with Hitler peering over his shoulder and two propaganda booklets attempting to show Petain and the Nazis in a good light.
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500
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Lot 1079 |
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Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), General and politician, leader of the Free-French government in exile and then, following the liberation of France in 1944, the head of the Provisional Government (1944-46); first President of the 5th Republic of France (1958-69).
Autograph Letter Signed, "C de Gaulle", 19 September 1944, to Cuban ambassador in London; signature a bit smeared, otherwise Very Fine.
Estimate 1,500 - 2,000
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Lot 1080 |
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French Politicians, Two pages including Georges Bidault, head of the French Resistance and eventual president of the French Provisional Government (1946), signature on card; Henri Bonnet, Frenchman who fled to the U.S., returning to France in 1944 to become a minister in the Provisional Government and later Ambassador to the U.S., signature across stamp on card; and Robert Schuman, Under-secretary of State at the time of the German invasion, arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Germany, escaped and joined the Resistance, later serving as Premier and Foreign Minister; created the Schuman Plan for pooling Western Europe's industrial resources, signature twice on U.S.-France friendship stamp on card.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 1081 |
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Denmark, Set of three Danish Legion stamps (Mi. I-III, €900), original gum, N.H.; plus two labels honoring Count Christian von Schalburg, a Danish Legion hero who had died on the Eastern Front; and a cover and letter from a Danish SS Legion soldier, dated 6 Mar 1942.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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Lot 1082 |
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Vidkyn Quisling (1887-1945), Norwegian fascist who, in 1940, when Germany invaded Norway, was supposed to be installed as the leader of a new puppet government; but before arrangements could be finalized, he went on the radio to declare himself Premier and countermanded troop mobilization orders. His premiership did not last, as the King, who had escaped to London, refused to recognize the Quisling government and without the support of his countrymen, Quisling was of little use to the Nazis. After the war, Quisling was convicted of treason and executed by firing squad. The name "Quisling" has become synonymous with "traitor".
Typed Letter Signed, 10 Feb 1939, on the letterhead of his pro-Hitler Nasjonal Samling Party, to a Mrs. Dora Bull, appointing her to the Party's executive body; small edge tears, light tape stain at upper right, Fine.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 1083 |
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King Haakon VII - Norway, Refused to deal with the Nazis and to accept the Quisling government; head of the Norwegian government in exile to which the Norwegian navy, air force and merchant fleet remained loyal.
Autograph Letter Signed, 11 June1943, to British Admiral, Sir John Cunningham, congratulating him on being named Commander-in-Chief of the Levant and noting that recent victories have shown "that the RAF can make people tired of continuing the war" and "I think the outlook is not too bad and I…live in hopes that the German people cannot take another winter…" Includes the mailing envelope addressed in the King's own hand; also a Norwegian fieldpost cover from 1943 and a packet card mailed from Oslo with the handstamp of the Nazi Security Police, 25 Apr 1945.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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Lot 1084 |
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Ukraine - Erich Koch (1896-1986), Early Hitler confederate, Reichskommissar of the Ukraine and Gauleiter of East Prussia; even Goebbels is said to have expressed horror at the German brutality sanctioned by Koch, such as the blowing up of one of Kiev's most famous churches.
Autograph Letter Signed, 22 June 1936, as Gauleiter of East Prussia, effusive letter to Hitler thanking him for his birthday greetings and assuring him that SA and SS operations in East Prussia are well integrated and coordinated; with translation.
Estimate 400 - 600
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Lot 1085 |
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The Neutral Countries - Sweden and Switzerland, Four pages of stamps, covers and autographs, the latter including King Gustav V and Count Folke-Bernadotte of Sweden; and President Phillipe Etter and Saly Mayer of Switzerland.
Estimate 400 - 600
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