[HIMMLER HEINRICH]: (1900-1945) Nazi German Politician, Reichsfuhrer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) ...

[HIMMLER HEINRICH]: (1900-1945) Nazi German Politician, Reichsfuhrer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) 1929-45. An exceptional D.S. by fifteen high ranking members of the Schutzstaffel (SS) individually, one page, large folio (12 x 15), n.p. (Berlin?), 7th October 1937. The document, in German, takes the form of a letter presented to Himmler on the occasion of his birthday and states, in full, 'All the department chiefs and inspectors at the S.S. Head Office remember you today with the warmest best wishes for the following year. All of us know no finer duty than to be allowed to work in the SS organisation, under your command, for the Fuhrer and for Germany. We have only the single wish - that you may always, in dark hours, feel how firmly your closest colleagues stand behind you, as a sworn company, prepared for any action'. The fifteen signatories comprise August Heissmeyer (1897-1979; German SS functionary, commanded the SS Main Office 1935-39), Friedrich-Wilhelm Kruger (1894-1945; German SS-Obergruppenfuhrer, Higher SS and Police Leader 1939-43), Theodor Eicke (1892-1943; German SS functionary, one of the key figures in the development of Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust serving as the second commandant of Dachau concentration camp 1933-34. Eicke was also one of the executioners of SA Chief Ernst Rohm during the Night of the Long Knives purge), Walter Schmitt (1879-1945; German SS-Obergruppenfuhrer, Chief of Personnel at the SS Main Office 1934-42), Oswald Pohl (1892-1951; German SS functionary, head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office and the head administrator of the Nazi concentration camps), Paul Hausser (1880-1972; German General, a high-ranking Commander in the Waffen-SS), Richard Herrmann (1895-1941; German Brigade Leader and Major General of the Waffen-SS), Ernst Sachs (1880-1956; German SS-Obergruppenfuhrer and General of the Waffen-SS, Chief of SS Communications and German Police 1940-44), Leo Petri (1876-1961; German SS-Gruppenfuhrer, Head of the Office for Security Tasks at the SS Main Office), Friedrich Hauser (1898-1943; German SS-Brigadefuhrer, Commander of SS Sector Koblenz 1940-43), Heinrich Gartner (1897-1963; German SS Major General, Chief of Supply at the SS Main Office 1937-40), Friedrich Dermietzel (1899-1981; German SS Major General, Chief Medical officer at the SS Main Office 1936-40), Hermann Haertel (1893-1970; German SS Major General, Chief of Welfare at the SS Main Office 1939-44), Rudolf Creutz (1896-1980; Austrian Nazi SS Major General, involved in the implementation of racial resettlement programmes in the Occupied Territories) and Paul Scharfe (1876-1942; German SS General, Chief of the SS Legal Department 1936-42). Professionally matted in black above a printed English translation and brief biographical details of the signatories and framed and glazed to an overall size of 17.5 x 28. Rare. Some very minor, light staining, otherwise VG