GRAND ADMIRAL KARL DONITZ - TYPESCRIPT SIGNED 06/12/1979 - HFSID 250662
Price: $600.00
GRAND ADMIRAL KARL DÖNITZ
Karl Dönitz signs a typescript from "Second Part of the Political
Testament of Adolph Hitler."
Souvenir Typed Manuscript signed: "Dönitz/12.6.79," 1p, 14x8½.
In English. Headed: "Second Part of the Political Testament of Adolph
Hitler." In part: "Before my death, I expel the former Reichsmarchell
(sic) Hermann Goering and deprive him of all the rights he may enjoy by
virtue of the decree of June 29, 1941, and also by virtue of my statement in the
Reichstag on September 1, 1939. I appoint in his place Grossadmiral Doenitz
as President of the Reich and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces...Goering
and Himmler, by their secret negotiations with the enemy, without my knowledge
or approval, and by their illegal attempts to seize power in the state, quite
apart from their treachery to my person, have brought irreparable shame to the
country and the whole people...I demand of all Germans, all National
Socialists, men and women and all soldiers of all Armed Forces, they remain
faithful and obedient to the new government and to their President unto death.
Above all I charge the leadership of the nation and their followers with the
strict observance of the racial laws and with merciless resistance against the
universal poisoners of all peoples, international Jewry. Given at Berlin, 19
April 1945, 4 A.M...." A new Cabinet is listed in the document, which is printed
at bottom: ADOLPH HITLER, with Dr. Joesph Goebbels, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Martin
Bormann and Hans Krebs as witnesses. On May 1st, Karl Dönitz became Führer
and ordered the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945. On April 30, 1945,
Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, had committed suicide in the Führerbunker, a
two-story underground complex containing nearly 30 rooms, in Berlin. On April
28, Hitler had dictated his last will and testament and a two-part political
statement; the copy of the second part is reproduced here. That day, just
before midnight, he also married his long-time mistress, Eva Braun, in a civil
ceremony. By the next day, Soviet forces were a mile away from the bunker and
Hitler had received word of Mussolini's death. He prepared for his own death
by testing poison capsules on his dog Blondi, and gave capsules to his
female secretaries to use should the Soviets overrun the bunker. At noon on
April 30, Hitler attended his last military conference, had a vegetarian lunch
at 2:00 p.m. and bid farewell to his remaining aides and staff members. At
3:30 p.m., Bormann and Goebbels entered Hitler's quarters and found him dead of
a gunshot to the temple; Eva Braun had died by swallowing poison. Their
bodies were carried to the Chancellery garden, doused with gasoline and burned.
Dönitz was tried at Nuremberg, found guilty of "Planning Aggressive War," and
served ten years (1946-1956) in prison as a war criminal. Creased at
corners, else fine.
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