Lot 1041
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Commander of the SS and Gestapo and creator and officer-in-charge of the Nazi concentration camps and the death squads.
Document Signed, 31 January 1939, as Reichsführer-SS, a promotion order for an SS officer, small paperclip stain at upper right; also two allied propaganda forgeries featuring Himmler designs, Michel 28II (NH, short perf) and 32 (disturbed gum, small stain).
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500
Near the end of the war Himmler offered to surrender "Germany" in return for not being prosecuted as a Nazi leader. In 1945, after his capture by the British, he committed suicide.
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