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ADOLF HITLER D.S.

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ADOLF HITLER D.S.
<b>362. ADOLF HITLER </b>(1889 - 1945)<b> </b>Fuhrer of Germany and Nazi Party leader, Hitler's bloody rise to power, his military seizure of most of Europe and North Africa and genocidal racial policies culminated in suicide in his Berlin bunker as Russian troops approached. Important, very late D.S., 1p. legal folio, Berlin, Mar. 8, 1945. As the Russians bear down on Berlin, from within his bunker Hitler makes three desperate changes in the command of his surviving forces: Col. Gen. Josef Harpe, a hero from the Soviet campaign, is given command of the 5th Panzer Army; Gen. Hasso von Manteuffel is given command of the 3rd Panzer Army, and Col. Gen. Erhard Raus is summarily fired for his failure in defending Germany. Co-signed by Infantry General <b>WILHELM BURGDORF</b> (d. 1945), who signed witnessing Hitler's Last Will and thereafter committed suicide in the bunker. It was also Burgdorf who convinced Rommel to take his own life rather than face trial for conspiracy. Fine condition. Signed documents from this late date, less than a month before Hitler's suicide, are very rare. Sold with two reproductions of photographs of von Manteuffel and Harpe.<b>$3,000-5,000</b>