Documents

Original September 1936 issue of Volk und Rasse, published in Munich during the Berlin Olympic year, together with an original Es leben die Soldaten Luftwaffe song sheet, Folge 31. Two original period publications offered for historical collecting.

Four original Third Reich tax documents from Bavaria, 1937, including ministry correspondence, Nuremberg tax notices, official stamps and a Reich service-postage card relating to house-tax matters in Stein bei Nürnberg.

Original Third Reich Arbeitsbuch issued by Arbeitsamt Rheine in 1940 to Rosa Höltermann of Emsdetten, with complete personal details, official stamps and agricultural self-employment entry.

Original Third Reich Arbeitsbuch for a German worker, with period employment entries, Arbeitsamt stamps and the original Merkblatt für Arbeitsbuchinhaber und Betriebsführer. Mid-1930s civil labour document.

Original 4×6 portrait photograph of Simon Wiesenthal, credited to Kjartan Bjelland and hand-signed across the lower margin. A historically significant autograph connected with Holocaust remembrance and postwar justice.

Original named document estate of Rudolf Paret, Reichsbahn official, former SA Rottenführer and later Wehrmacht Obergefreiter connected to 2. Reserve Grenadier Battalion 465, Tarnopol, Galicia. Includes Reichsbahn promotion certificates, Dorpmüller signatures, Hitler facsimile, KVK2 document, photos, letters and missing-in-action paperwork.

Original 1938 Gau Essen Wochenspruch der NSDAP poster quoting Rudolf Hess, personally signed in ink and dated 1 July 1938. An unusual pre-war autograph and propaganda-document crossover piece.

Original Richard Anton Christ document and medal estate, including Soldbuch, WWI and WWII paperwork, KVK2 award document, family records, postal service IDs and medals connected with his military and civil career.

This Reinhard Heydrich signed Gestapo document is an original Secret State Police circular dated Berlin, 5 January 1937. Addressed to the heads of all State Police offices, it transmits official guidelines from the Reichsführer-SS and Chief of the German Police. The document bears Heydrich’s original handwritten signature and retains its Gestapo heading, routing details and period filing holes.

Pair of original German Festpostkarten produced for the 1935 Nuremberg Rally, held from 10 to 16 September. Both cards are postally used and retain period handwritten messages, commemorative postage stamps and special event cancellations. One example bears the complete 6 and 12 Pfennig stamp set, while the second carries the 6 Pfennig issue.

Original three-page typed document signed by Otto Skorzeny, dated Madrid, 2 November 1972, containing his personal corrections to passages dealing directly with his experiences during the Second World War.

Headed “Corrections of My Memoirs”, the pages reference the Waffen-SS, Abwehr, RSHA, Walter Schellenberg, Skorzeny’s wartime promotion, his special battalion and his Knight’s Cross. The final page bears a large handwritten Otto Skorzeny signature. Includes original airmail envelope addressed to R. James Bender Publishing in California.

Original German wartime letter dated 5 February 1941 from Dr. Ing. Otto Reuleaux of Vereinigte Leichtmetall-Werke, Hannover-Linden, to Obermeister J. Vaassen at the Leichtmetall-Büro Paris. The letter concerns the award and dispatch of a Kriegsverdienstkreuz, refers to a Luftwaffe presentation by Major von Unger and remarkably mentions a separate award certificate “signed by the Führer.” Hand-signed in ink by Reuleaux.