Historical Collection

Original Ernst Röhm autograph on a handwritten 1926 Salzburg postcard to Franz Kugler, retaining Röhm’s full pencil signature, period Austrian stamp and postal cancellations.

Original Japanese imperial document dated Tokyo, 23 January 1957, signed by Emperor Hirohito and countersigned by Prime Minister Tanzan Ishibashi and Foreign Minister Nobusuke Kishi, recognising LaVerne Baldwin as United States Consul-General. With original envelope, typed English translation and a third-party certificate of authenticity.

Soviet postal stationery envelope with printed 6-kopeck indicium, signed in blue ink by Dolores Ibárruri, “La Pasionaria”, with an unsigned black-and-white portrait photograph of her at a microphone. The frame shown is not included.

Original Deutsche Reichspost postal savings set: a red Postsparbuch and its matching Ausweiskarte, both numbered 6.954.113, with a Knesebeck (Hannover) post office cancellation, handwritten savings entries and postal stamps.

Original late-1930s collector picture album “Das Führerkorps des Dritten Reiches”, published by Gauverlag Bayerische Ostmark, Bayreuth, with mounted portrait pictures and printed biographies of the regime’s leading figures. Signatures shown are printed facsimiles.

Original Simon Wiesenthal autograph in dark ink on a paper cut, accompanied by a third-party Certificate of Authenticity. A large, flowing signature connected to Holocaust remembrance and post-war justice.

Award document dated Berlin, 1 May 1942, conferring the title “Nationalsozialistischer Musterbetrieb” on the Steinkohlenbergwerk Fenne of the Saargruben-Aktiengesellschaft, with the signature of Adolf Hitler, offered as a certified original. With its red presentation folder; delivered framed.

Original Deutsches Reich Kennkarte with red diagonal band, issued in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) on 25 November 1944 to a female holder, valid to 20 November 1949, with portrait photograph, fingerprints, stamps and the red notation “Schutzangehörige (Eingegliederte Ostgebiete)”.

Archive of more than 40 original French military and administrative papers, mainly 1939–1943, centred on the fighting at Bailleul-le-Soc on 8–9 June 1940: a 44th Infantry Regiment journal, reports and the 1943 narrative of Reserve Lieutenant René Kiger, his Croix de Guerre citation, an occupied-zone map and a 1946 mission order.

Named group of papers of August Kuhlmann, born 1896, of the Herford area: his Wehrpass, a Führerschein (driving licence) with photograph, a Reichspost Rundfunkgenehmigung (radio licence) and a typed letter addressing him as Wachtmeister der Feuerwehr.

Three original bilingual German-Polish police registration forms, “Anmeldung zur polizeilichen Einwohnererfassung”, from occupied Poland, each completed for a different person, with handwritten entries, signatures, fingerprints and official stamps.

Original Wehrmacht Soldbuch belonging to Albert Wilhelm Rattey, later promoted to Gefreiter, with photograph, unit entries, equipment records and post-war German refugee/displaced person ID issued in Offenburg in 1956.

Original typed letter signed by Albert Speer in blue ink, dated Heidelberg, 9 October 1969, on his personal letterhead. It gives his opinion on a handwriting sample connected with Adolf Hitler and mentions sending a copy of his memoirs, “Erinnerungen”, for 25 Deutsche Mark.

Original black-and-white photograph, approx. 9 × 13 cm with scalloped edges, showing Adolf Wagner greeting several men at a public gathering, signed in full in dark ink in the lower white margin.

Original early-type Adam Opel Arbeitsbuch belonging to Peter Fellner, with multiple Adam Opel A.G. Rüsselsheim stamps and employment records documenting welding and skilled metalwork during the 1930s.

Original 1943 promotion certificate for Major der Schutzpolizei a.D. Oskar Lehmann, with the printed facsimile signature of Adolf Hitler and the handwritten signature of Heinrich Himmler. Issued from the Führer Headquarters on 12 July 1943, with large embossed seal.

Original bilingual Arbeitskarte / Karta Pracy (work card) of the Generalgouvernement, issued by the Arbeitsamt Tschenstochau (Częstochowa) on 15 August 1942, with dark card cover, handwritten holder details and office stamp.

Original award certificate dated Berlin, 21 May 1939, conferring the Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter, 3rd Class, on Babette Koch, née Ott, of Vorbach. It bears the period facsimile signature of Adolf Hitler beneath “Der Führer und Reichskanzler” and a handwritten countersignature at lower right. An early Mother’s Cross document.