Auction 88
Historical Militaria, Autographs, and Ephemera Auction, Feb. 8 & 9, 2021
By Alexander Historical Auctions LLC
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Feb 8, 2021
98 Bohemia Ave., St. 2, Chesapeake City, MD 21915, United States
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1,400 lots of historical militaria from all conflicts; historical autographs and ephemera from all fields of collecting.
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LOT 47:
AUGUST HEISSMEYER
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Sold for: $600
Start price:
$
200
Estimated price :
$400 - $500
Buyer's Premium: 30%
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sales tax: 8.875% On lot's price, no sales tax on commission
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AUGUST HEISSMEYER
(1897 - 1979) Waffen-SS general, relieved Theodor Eicke who in 1939 had begun commanding a front line division. Heissmeyer was provisionally in charge of the inspection of concentration camps until relieved by Richard Glucks. Fine association T.L.S. on his personal SS-Obergruppenfuhrer letterhead, 1p. 4to., Berlin, Feb. 3, 1942 to fellow war-criminal RICHARD HILDEBRANDT (1897-1952) sending his congratulations upon the latter's having been promoted to the rank of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer. File holes, else fine. Richard Hildebrandt, a Nazi politician and SS-Obergruppenfuhrer, headed the SS Race and Settlement Office. He would be convicted of war crimes including resettlement of Germans in occupied territory after ejecting native families, kidnapping of alien children, forced abortions, utilization of enemy nationals as slave labour, and more. Hanged by the Poles.
