ADOLF HITLER'S POLITICAL TESTAMENT, SIGNED BY THE SECRETARY WHO TYPED IT

ADOLF HITLER'S POLITICAL TESTAMENT, SIGNED BY THE SECRETARY WHO TYPED IT
ADOLF HITLER'S POLITICAL TESTAMENT SIGNED BY THE SECRETARY WHO TYPED IT
Very early on the morning of April 29 1945 Adolf Hitler summoned his private secretary GERTRAUD "TRAUDL" JUNGE (1920-2002) to take record his last private and political testaments. The shy 25 year-old typist prepared ten typed pages on Hitler's personal letterhead of a hate-filled tirade against the Jews In small part: "...More than thirty years have now passed since I in 1914 made my modest contribution as a volunteer in the first world war that was forced upon the Reich. In these three decades I have been actuated solely by love and loyalty to my people in all my thoughts acts and life...It is untrue that I or anyone else in Germany wanted the war in 1939. It was desired and instigated exclusively by those international statesmen who were either of Jewish descent or worked for Jewish interests...out of the ruins of our towns and monuments the hatred against those finally responsible whom we have to thank for everything international Jewry and its helpers will grow...the leading circles in English politics wanted the war partly on account of the business hoped for and partly under influence of propaganda organized by international Jewry...Europe's Aryan peoples die of hunger...millions of grown men suffer death and not only hundreds of thousands of women and children be burnt and bombed to death in the towns without the real criminal having to atone for this guilt...I cannot forsake the city which is the capital of this Empire...I should like by remaining in this town to share my fate with those the millions of others who have also taken upon themselves to do so. Moreover I do not wish to fall into the hands of an enemy who requires a new spectacle organized by the Jews for the amusement of their hysterical masses...I have decided therefore to remain in Berlin and there of my own free will to choose death...I die with a happy heart...I beg the heads of the Armies the Navy and the Air Force to strengthen by all possible means the spirit of resistance of our soldiers in the National-Socialist sense with special reference to the fact that also I myself as founder and creator of this movement have preferred death to cowardly abdication or even capitulation..." In the second part of his testament Hitler expels Goring and Himmler from the Nazi Party and names their successors including Karl Donitz to lead the government and suggests a new cabinet. Hitler signed the original document with a cramped and shaky hand and it was witnessed by Martin Bormann Joseph Goebbels and generals Wilhelm Burgdorf and Hans Krebs. Offered here is a high-quality photocopy on heavy stock of the original document 10pp. 8.25 x 11.25 in. with the last page inscribed and signed by Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge: "Typed by Traudl Junge Hitler's secretary". Fine condition.