Lot 304

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304. ADOLF HITLER Fine content war-date D.S. on his blind-embossed "Der Fuhrer" letterhead, 1p. 4to., "Fuhrer Headquarters", [Berlin], May 28, 1944, creating a new SS armed division and naming it "Kama", the traditional name for a Turkish fighting knife. This was the second SS division to be created composed of Croatians and Croatian Muslims, a desperate action by Himmler late in the war using soldiers ethnically far from his ideal SS "master race" enlistees. Also bearing initials of HEINRICH HIMMLER (1900-1945) Hitler's Chief of the Gestapo, who signs a very light "HH" at end on text in his typical green indelible pencil. Fine. $2,000-3,000

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