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ADOLF HITLER

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Militaria Start Price:1,750.00 USD Estimated At:3,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD
ADOLF HITLER
A signed photograph given to a UPI journalist

(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. A rare and unusual S.P. 9" x 11" b/w bust profile photograph by Heinrich Hoffmann, boldly signed across his collar at the lower right corner. Originally from the collection of journalist Karl August Bickel (1882 - 1972), president of UPI who interviewed Hitler in 1933 who at the time declared that the entire German state was behind him and told him that parliaments were "'doomed' as a form of government." With Hoffmann's "Nationalsozialistischer Postkarten-Verlag" stamp on verso. Very light creasing and a touch of silvering, a few tiny abrasions to emulsion, else near fine condition. A very rare and unusual pose.

Estimate: $3,500 - 4,500.

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