Lot 1007
Adolf Hitler - The Beer-Hall Putsch, Signed postcard, 28 March 1925. After his unsuccessful Beer-Hall Putsch (8 November 1923), Hitler was tried and imprisoned. After his release, in March of 1925, he and some early supporters attending a gathering of war vets signed the back of this picture postcard, among them: Ernst Röhm, who helped organize the SA (Storm Troopers) and later commanded the Brown Shirts; executed on "The night of the long knives"as a result of an alleged plot to overthrow Hitler, a plot that had been contrived by Hitler's henchmen as an excuse to get rid of Röhm [see also lot XXX]; Erich Ludendorff, the card's subject and part of The Putsch, he was a World War I hero and von Hindenburg's chief of staff; Wilhelm Breuckner (who has added a swastika after his signature), SA General and Putsch co-defendant and Hitler's chief personal adjutant; and Hermann Kriebel, commander of the nationalist group supporting Hitler and the military leader of the Putsch. Also includes a 1943 picture postcard from showing Hitler's cell at Landsberg prison. An exceptional piece with significant Third Reich historical importance.
Estimate 7,500 - 10,000
All four of these men were tried with Hitler for their part in Putsch, with all but Ludendorff being convicted and imprisoned.
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