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[NAZI PARTY LEADERS]

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[NAZI PARTY LEADERS]
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>[NAZI PARTY LEADERS] </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>Collection of eight signed notecards and letters, 1942-43, from party leaders later convicted of war crimes. Addressed to Baron Loeffelholz von Colberg, a Nazi functionary in Berlin, with routine content. Mostly early members of the Nazi Party, the Allied Courts considered these Nazis major offenders. Among them are </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Erich Koch</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'> (1896-1993), the brutal Reich Commissioner for the Ukraine; </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext; text-transform:uppercase'>Dr. Roland Freisler</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'> (1893-1945) as president of the People’s Court who presided over the defendants in the July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler; </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>S. S. Oberstgruppenführer Franz Schwarz</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> (1875-1947), as Reichsleiter; career military officer and Reich Labor Leader </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Konstantin Hierl</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> (1875-1955), as Reich Minister; </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Constantin von Neurath</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> (1873-1956) as Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia; </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext; text-transform:uppercase'>Baldur von Schirach</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'> (1907-1974) as Hitler’s Youth Leader; and </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Franz Ritter von Epp</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> (1868-1946) as governor of Bavaria. Von Epp was a decorated career military officer having one Germany’s highest honor, the Pour le Mérite in WW I. Nicely preserved in binder, all are accompanied by brief printed biographies beneath their photograph and facsimile signatures. Fine.</span></p>