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HEINRICH HIMMLER D.S.

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HEINRICH HIMMLER D.S.
<b>1146. HEINRICH HIMMLER</b> (1900 - 1945) Hitler's Chief of the Gestapo placed in charge of security and responsible for the construction and operation of extermination camps. He chose suicide rather than face a hangman's noose at Nuremburg. Fine content partly-printed D.S. "<i>H. Himmler</i>" 1p. 8vo., Berlin, June 1, 1933, literally a "<i>Contract of Employment</i>" issued to SS Standartenfuhrer Wilhelm Monke and boldly signed by Himmler at bottom. All margins trimmed, with no loss of text, otherwise fine. WILHELM MOHNKE (b. 1911), was a Knights Cross recipient, leader of the 1st SS Panzer Leibstandarte "Adolf Hitler", and was one of the last defenders of the Reichstag. Captured by the Russians, Mohnke was charged with war crimes, including participation in the Malmedy massacre, and jailed until 1959.<b>$500-700</b>