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HANS LAMMERS

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HANS LAMMERS
(1879 - 1962) Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellory, ordered arrested by Hitler in the final days, and ultimately sentenced to twenty years imprisonment for war crimes. T.L.S. on his official letterhead, 1p. large 4to., Berlin, Jan. 26, 1944 to HERMANN GOERING in his capacity as Minister-President of Prussia. In part: "...regarding the transfer of Upper President Prince [Philipp] von Hessen into retirement...I submitted the discharge award to the Fuhrer and I am sending you the award from the Fuhrer with the request to institute the announcement through the press and radio...". Several dockets, file holes in left margin, else very good. On 8 September 1943, Philipp, who had married Italian King Emmanuel III's daughter, was arrested for suspicion of complicity in the fall of Mussolini. He was stripped of his membership in the party and sent to Flossenbuerg concentration camp where he was placed in solitary confinement. On 25 January 1944, his political disgrace became public when he was dismissed from his office as Governor of Hesse-Nassau. Philipp's wife Mafalda was arrested and eventually sent to Buchenwald where she was mortally wounded in a bombing raid.