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ADOLF HITLER

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:750.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD
ADOLF HITLER
ADOLF HITLER
(1889 - 1945) Fuhrer 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. Good content typed D.S., 1p. large 4to., "Fuhrer Headquarters", Jan. 27, 1942 and headed: "SECRET!". Hitler promotes HANS SCHMIDT (1895-1971) to the rank of generalleutnant. Co-signed by WILHELM KEITEL (1882-1946), German field marshal and army chief of staff later convicted of war crimes and executed at Nuremburg. Ernst, who fought from Poland to the Hurtgen Forest, was awarded the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves. Blind embossed seal bears a small area of loss, else fine.