AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS
Jul 16, 2021
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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LOT 615:

[HITLER ADOLF]: (1889-1945) Fuhrer of the Third Reich 1933-45. An interesting series of leaves ...

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Auction took place on Jul 16, 2021 at International Autograph Auctions

[HITLER ADOLF]: (1889-1945) Fuhrer of the Third Reich 1933-45. An interesting series of leaves removed from an official ledger originally held in the Presidential Chancellery of the Fuhrer, twenty-eight pages, 4to, n.p. (Berlin), 1936-38. The partially printed pages, completed in manuscript in unidentified hands, provide details of individuals seeking audiences with Adolf Hitler including names, dates and filing numbers for the correspondence relating to the requests. Included amongst the entries are David Lloyd George (4th September 1936), Hermann Esser (12th October 1936), Lord Londonderry (30th October 1936), Lord Castlereagh and Lady Maureen Stanley (17th November 1936), Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (16th November 1936), Hjalmar Schacht (6th February 1937), Tullio Cianetti (20th February 1937), Konstantin von Neurath (25th February 1937), George Lansbury (5th April 1937), Pierre de Coubertin (10th April 1937), Leila Sokhey (23rd April 1937), R. B. Bennet (30th April 1937), Rudolf Carraciola & Manfred von Brauchitsch (27th July 1937), Aga Khan (27th July 1937), John Groth (11th August 1937), Albert Speer (12th August 1937), Rudolf Hess, Joseph Goebbels, Werner von Blomberg & Konstantin von Neurath (16th August 1937), Charles Bedaux (27th August 1937), Ichiro Hatoyama (10th October 1937), Edward, Duke of Windsor (22nd October 1937), Adolf Keller (21st March 1938), G. Ward Price of the Daily Mail (25th July 1938), Ahmed Hussein (9th August 1938), Italo Balbo (13th August 1938) and many, many others. The entries in red and black inks and with a few blank pages. File holes to the left edges of each page and with some light overall age wear, about VG

An extremely rare contemporary record of the historic and controversial meeting between Edward, Duke of Windsor and Adolf Hitler on 22nd October 1937 at the Berghof. The minutes of the meeting appear to have been lost, presumed destroyed, during World War II.


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