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ADOLF HITLER

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Militaria Start Price:750.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD
ADOLF HITLER
ADOLF HITLER
(1889 - 1945) Dictator of Germany and Nazi Party leader, Hitler's bloody rise to power, his military seizure of most of Europe and North Africa and his genocidal racial policies culminated in suicide in his Berlin bunker as Russian troops approached. War-date typed D.S., 1p. 4to., n.p.., Feb. 26, 1943, a set of orders reassigning three generals to new posts. It appoints Field Marshal PAUL VON KLEIST (1881-1954) head of Army Group A, which at this time was tasked with capturing Russian oil fields in the southern Caucasus. It also appoints EBERHARD VON MACKENSEN (1889-1969) commander of the First Panzer Army, replacing von Kleist. He later led that army in the Third Battle of Kharkov, which resulted in a strategic victory for the Germans. Lastly, it appoints WALTER-OTTO WEISS (1890-1967) commander of the 2nd Army. The document is boldly signed by Hitler in black ink, and is countersigned by RUDOLF SCHMUNDT (1896-1944), Chief of the Army Personnel Office, who was killed by wounds received during the failed assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944. Fine.