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[BALDUR VON SCHIRACH]

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[BALDUR VON SCHIRACH]

<b>266. [BALDUR VON SCHIRACH]</b>
<hr align=left size=5 width=33% color=#778899>(1907-1974). Hitler’s Youth leader; gauleiter in Vienna (1940-45); sentenced as war criminal to 50 years imprisonment at Nürnberg. TMs in German, 35pp, single space, 4to, Nürnberg prison; 1945 Untranslated. Unsigned. Entitled “Hitler,” the manuscript was typed by Schirach while awaiting trial and offers his observations of the Führer and other Nazis after their defeat. He comments on Borman, a “<i>Second Hitler</i>”; Rudolf Hess; Von Ribbentrop; Richard Strauss; and others. Schirach, the only one to admit guilt at the Trials, compares Hitler’s life to <i>The Picture of Dorian Gray</i>, i.e. “<i>He drove all to destruction</i>.” Old staples at top left corner; general toning; two light stains and penciled annotation on first page; horizontal tear across last page with no paper loss; other edge tears on last page with little paper loss not affecting text; first and last pages detached; o/w Good/VG.

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