Auction Date:2011 May 11 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
War-dated DS, in German, one page, 8 x 11.5, January 21, 1945. Untranslated military appointment for “General der Jnfanterie Busse, Kommandierrender General des I. Armeekorps,” signed in blue ink by Hitler. In fine condition, with a few light creases and wrinkles.
Warsaw lay in ruins as Nazi forces evacuated the Polish city ahead of the advancing Soviet Army, but there was to be another victim of the battle. German General Heinrich Freiherr von Luttwitz had failed to hold Warsaw and delivered Hitler a defeat in Poland that the Fuhrer did not want. The result was this document, in which General Theodor Busse was named to replace Luttwitz as head of 9th Army.
While Busse commanded the 9th Army against Soviet invasion and fought to protect the German capital city in the Battle of Berlin, this appointment was never formally confirmed. According to custom, commanders such as Busse served a six-month probation before a final appointment as commander-in-chief was approved; Germany surrendered unconditionally before his probationary period expired. Superlative document from Hitler signed at the end of the Battle of Bulge and the waning days of World War II, issued to a commander who, at the Nuremberg Trials, admitted that he would had ‘followed the example of many other soldiers who have preferred death to surrender.’
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