SUMMARY: This offering is a unique
piece of history. A post card sent from Hitler's Birthday celebration
April 20th to an author in the Propaganda Ministry. The card
was signed one month later in May of 1938.Price:$4500.00
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Adolph Hitler (1889-1945 )and
Rudolph Hess (1894-1987).
This post card was sent from (after) the Birthday Celebration
of Adolph Hitler as per the message from the sender (Trude) and
it is postmarked on day of Hitler's birth April 20th (4/20/38).
The recipient of the Post Card was Seraphine Jaeger who worked
at the National Socialist Youth Movement where she was an author
in the Propaganda Ministry.The fact that Jaeger was a teacher
illustrates that the Nazis recruited from all walks of life in
Germany including teachers. The post card reads as follows:
My lovely (dearest) Seraphine,
From the birthday celebration for the Fuhrer
I send you many best wishes.
How is your new position working out for
your career? Do you think of returning to
teaching or will you stay in your new position.
Let me hear from you soon.
Your best wishes were forwarded to Fritz
When will you be in the area again. Let me hear from you then.
Your friend Trude
Addressed to:
Seraphine Jaeger
Press/Propaganda Ministry (National Socialist Youth Movement)
The card measures 3.5 in x 5.5
in and there is some bumping of one corner and some minor emulsion
imperfections and one small crese on the right none of which
affect the signatures or the overall appearance of the card.
The recipient had the card signed one month later and Hitler
signed :Adolph Hitler May 20, 1938, n.p. and Rudolph
Hess signed RHess, 1938, n.p. The assumptioin is
that Hess found no need to put Month and day on his signature
since Hitler had already done that. At this point Hess was Deputy
Fuhrer.
1938 was a momentous year in
the life of Adolph Hitler, Europe and the world. On 12 March
1938, Hitler pressured Austria into unification with Germany
(the Anschluss) and made a triumphal entry into Vienna on March
14. Next, he intensified a crisis
over the German-speaking Sudetenland districts of Czechoslovakia.This
led to the Munich Agreement with neville Chamberlain of September
1938, which authorized the annexation and immediate military
occupation of these districts by Germany.As a result of the summit,
Hitler was TIME magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1938. British
prime minister Neville Chamberlain hailed this agreement as "Peace
in our time", but by giving way to Hitler's military demands
Britain and France also left Czechoslovakia to Hitler's mercy.So
in 1938, the year of this post card, Hitler and Nazi Germany
were gathering the momentum that would caryy them and the woprld
into the maelstreom of World War II, the greatest military conflict
in human history.
It is seldom that one finds Hitler
material with this kind of provenance and associations.This card
can be traced back to a German relative of the same name who
was close to Hitler and was a Gauleiter in Germany.He
had a collection of several historic artifacts from the Nazi
era some of which we will be offering for sale.
A
certified opinion as to the authenticity of this item will accompany any purchase.
Price:$4500.00
Needless to say, this listing
is not to be misconstrued as an endorsement or glorification
of Adolph Hitler or his policies. Hitler was a major leader of
an important country and, at one time, he was one of the most
powerful men on earth. He is now part of history and there is
no going back on that. Items presented by The History Buff, Inc.
represent part of the historical record of man and are placed
for sale without prejudice. Hitler represents that part of human
nature which the founders of our country, like James Madison,
called "the depravity of man." It was not by accident
that our founding documents were designed in part to restrain
that very 'depravity'. Jefferson was particularly prescient when
he warned, "Man must be bound by the chains of law."
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