Lot 1062
Hitler in Berlin, Letter Signed, Christmas 1944, 7½ x 4¾ gold-embossed personal card,
"It is a special joy to me, as in past years, to send you a little Christmas present, the accompanying package of surplus at my disposal. With warmest wishes for Christmas and the New Year. Yours, Adolf Hitler"
Mild bend and light foxing, Fine; also includes a 1936 picture postcard showing Berlin decorated for Christmas.
Estimate 4,000 - 6,000
Hitler's greeting gives no hint of the sense of doom that must have hung over Berlin on this final Christmas before the end of the war, as allied troops advanced on the city from the west and those of Russia from the east.
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