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2025601 Adolf Hitler Walter Buch Scroll down to see images of the item below the description
Scarce early Nazi Party document in which
Hitler expels a member for failure to attend an SA meeting
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), Führer and Reich Chancellor of Nazi
Germany, 1933-1945, and Walter Buch (1883–1949), President of the
Nazi party Supreme Court and father-in-law of Martin Bormann. Scarce early
typewritten Document Signed, Adolf Hitler, one page (recto and
verso), 7¾” x 9”, Munich, Germany, March 31, 1927, annotated with an
Autograph Note Signed, Walter Buch.
We have sold this document before, and it remains the earliest Hitler item that we have ever seen on this letterhead
from the Munich headquarters of the Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche
Arbeiter-Partei, the N.S.D.A.P. or National Socialist German
Workers’ Party—the Nazi Party. The address is Schellingstraße
50 in Munich, the studio of Heinrich Hoffmann, the official Nazi party
photographer whose images of Hitler are the finest extant. Hitler’s
mistress, Eva Braun, worked in Hoffmann’s shop, and it was there that
Hitler first met her. Schellingstraße 50 housed the Nazi Party
headquarters from 1925 until 1931.
In this document, at the request of the Supreme Commander of the the Sturmabteilung, or
SA, the Nazi storm troops, Hitler expels a member from the Nazi Party for
failure to attend an SA meeting. In the last paragraph, Hitler demands that
the member turn in his member book and party badge. The member’s appeal is
typewritten and signed by him on the reverse. He argues that he was absent
because of his work schedule and that he will report for duty immediately if
he is allowed to remain in the party. A typed note by the Supreme
Commander’s adjutant and Buch’s handwritten, signed note are also on the
reverse.
The collector who acquired this scarce document from us has decided to
downsize and has given us the opportunity to offer it again.
The piece has toning, horizontal and vertical folds, minor edge splits,
archival repairs to filing holes, and a pencil note in another hand
identifying Buch. Overall it is in very good to fine condition.
We reject Nazism and all that it represented. We nevertheless offer
this piece because the Nazi party spawned the German Third Reich and the
Holocaust that it systematically carried out, both of which played
undeniable roles in 20th Century history. Since we believe that to
decline to offer Nazi material, although it is offensive, would aid those
who want to sweep the Third Reich under the rug and deny that the Holocaust
occurred, we offer this material because the world must never forget what
happened, lest it happen again.
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read more about these thoughts in our Blog posts of January 8 and February
26, 2010.
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$6,250.00 | |
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