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(1889 - 1945) Fuhrer of Germany and Nazi Party leader, Hitler's bloody rise to power, his military seizure of most of Europe and North Africa and his genocidal racial policies culminated in suicide in his Berlin bunker as Russian troops approached. HITLER WRITES ANTE PAVELIC, APPOINTING THE GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO CROATIA Rare and important content D.S. as Reichschancellor, 2pp. folio, [n.p., certainly Berlin], April 1941, a letter of state to Croatian fascist dictator ANTE PAVELIC (1889-1959), appointing SA-Obergruppenfuhrer SIEGFRIED KASCHE as the German Ambassador to Croatia. In large part: 'Guided by the desire to set up an embassy of the German Reich in Agram to express the friendly relations existing between the German Reich and the independent state of Croatia, I have decided to appoint the SA-Obergruppenfuhrer Siegfried Kasche as the Ambassador of the German Reich...His proven qualities justify me in the expectation that...he will strive to earn your Excellency's approval...Herr Kasche will have the honor of handing you, Herr Staatsfuhrer, this letter, which is to certify him in the capacity of an exceptional and authorized minister of the German Empire. I ask you to receive him with benevolence and to give him full faith in everything that he will be called to carry out in my name or on behalf of the German Reich Government. I also use this occasion to give to you, Herr Staatsfuhrer, my best wishes for your personal well-being and the flourishing and prosperity of the Independent State of Croatia, and to combine with them the assurance of my most perfect and sincere friendship.' Hitler signs at the conclusion, also signed by Nazi foreign minister JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP
(1893-1946). One fold, else fine condition. From a collection of historical documents once owned by military historian and author Vojmir Kljakovic. Germany recognized the Independent State of Croatia on April 15, 1941, and soon thereafter Hitler named Kasche as ambassador to his fascist ally. Kasche arrived in Zagreb five days later, then presumably gave this document to Pavelic in person. Since he was very affectionate with Pavelic and his 'Ustase revolution', Kasche fervently supported the murder of racial minorities and political opponents. With the Nazis' backing, Pavelic sent over 100,000 Serbs and Jews in concentration and extermination camps to their deaths in Croatia, and murdered and tortured several hundred thousand Serbs, along with tens of thousands of Jews and Roma. For supporting these war crimes, Kasche was tried by the Supreme Court of the People's Republic of Croatia after the war, convicted, and executed by hanging. Pavelic escaped trial and found shelter in Spain.

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