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Adolf Hitler NSDAP Signed Hotel Wittelsbach Guestbook with 400 Signatures - Guestbook from the Hotel Wittelsbach for August 13, 1934, on the occasion of the visit of Adolf Hitler to attend the 300th anniversary of the ”Passion Play of Oberammergau”. Adolf Hitler, The National Socialist Hierarchy, the SA & SS Leaders Attend the Passion Play at Oberammergau, Germany 1934 Along with Other Famous Personalities & Their Signatures. On August 13, 1934, Adolf Hitler and his large entourage visited the town to attend the 300th anniversary of the Passion play and he signed and dated a page reserved and devoted to him and below his signature is an original photo of the Führer himself addressing a large crowd from the hotel’s balcony. This photograph was affixed to the page where Hitler’s signature is seen by the hotel staff at the time. There is also another original postcard photo of Hitler in his car in front of the hotel acknowledging the crowd offering him the “Deutschen Gruss’! (The National Socialist stiff armed salute). That card is separate from the book. Ironically six days later the book was signed by William Randolph Hearst, as well as his mistress, movie-star Marion Davies, and the U.S. Ambassador to Germany, William E. Dodd, as the trio were en route to Berlin to meet with Hitler to deliver American Jew's concerns about German policies toward their people. We do not know if such a meeting ever took place but it most likely did not happen in Oberammergau. Concerning the Jews, there is a signature of Julius Streicher Gauleiter of Gau Franken and publisher of “Der Stürmer” a magazine that rather brusquely discusses the Jewish question. He wrote this message on June 7th 1933 when a guest at the hotel: “Without a solution to the Jewish question, there can be no salvation for the German People!” In another visit on January 20th. 1935 Streicher places a second signed quote into the book: “Who knows the Jew knows the Devil”. Others who have signed this guest book include: * British Prime Minister Ramsey Macdonald, and his daughters Ishbel, Joan, and Sheila; they signed the book in 1930. * Harold Lloyd, Very Famous American film actor and Hollywood star, actually the most popular and influential of the film comedians of the silent era He signs the book in 1933 and beside his signature he sketches the spectacles (glasses) for which he was well known * Freiherr von Hünefeld, writes “We remember our nice stay in Oberammergau and the friendly service in in the Wittlesbacher Hof hotel where everybody is most welcome, signed January 6th 1934 * Elizabeth Countess Fugger & Babenhausen, another royal personage whose family helped to develop many important trade relationships and treaties in Europe that last to this day * Fredrick P. Small, President of American Express. He brought the company through the Great Depression. He stayed at the hotel and signed the guest book in July of 1930. * Ludwig Siebert, Bavarian President, he was highly instrumental in the restoration of all the castles and historically important buildings in Germany. He visited and stayed in June of 1934 * Martin Bormann, head of the party chancellery and private secretary to Hitler and by the war's end he became second only to Hitler in importance. He was Hitler’s “right hand man” during the war. He stayed loyal to the Führer right to the end! He visited Oberammagau and signed the guest book March 25th 1935 * Dr. Fritz Todt, the greatest German engineer, architect and senior N.S. figure, Minister of armaments and munitions, he was the Father of the Autobahn and he supervised the construction of the famed Siegfried wall. He visited the hotel along with Martin Bormann June 25th 1935 as part of the staff of the Fuhrer's deputy * Victor Lutze, Commander in Chief of the SA Storm Troops. His wife signed as well. Lutze succeeded Staff chief Ernst Roehm after the “Night of the Long Knives.“ He was a guest 1/26/35. Later he was a guest again when the SA Leadership conference was held there from the 14th to the 17th, 1935 and he signed the book again. * Franz Ritter Von Epp, General and Reich’s protector of the N.S. party, he earlier headed the “Von Epp Free Corps” that fought valiantly against the Communists in the “Kampfzeit” (Time of Struggle). He was also the head of the German Colonial Society, an organization devoted to regaining Germanys lost colonies. He was a ranking member of the German Reichstag. He stayed at the hotel March 14th through the 17th 1935 * Dr. Robert Ley, head of the N.S. Labor corp. He was unswervingly loyal to Hitler. The creator of the KDF- the Strength Through Joy Program that gave very special vacation benefits to workers such as cruises on special ships sailing to foreign ports. The KDF was also the program under which the Volkswagen was produced. Ley said in 1938 “I believe on this earth in Adolf Hitler alone. I believe in one lord God who made me and guides me, and I believe this God has sent Adolf Hitler to us.