1063. HEINRICH HIMMLER (1900-1945) Hitler's Chief of the Gestapo placed in charge of security and responsible for the construction and operation of extermination camps. He chose suicide rather than face a hangman's noose at Nuremburg. T.L.S. 1p. legal folio, Berlin, Jan. 3, 1944, in German to "Party Member Milch", untranslated but making reference to an ordnance officer. Two marginal chips, short fold split at bottom and file holes at left margin, else very good. $400-500