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HEINRICH HIMMLER

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HEINRICH HIMMLER
HEINRICH HIMMLER
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(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 Nuremberg. Typed D.S. in his capacity as Minister of the Interior, 1p. large 4to., Berlin, Nov. 15, 1943, stamped "Secret", to HERMANN GOERING

in his capacity as Minister President of Prussia. In part: "...I am attaching a petition...the Prince [Philipp] von Hessen is married to a daughter of the King of Italy...after the disgraceful betrayal of the House of Savoy against Germany [Italy signed an armistice with the Allies on Sep. 8, 1943], it is impossible that he, as a close relative of the House, continues to have the important office of a Prussian Upper President. I therefore request...[per] the decree of the Fuhrer...to suggest to the Fuhrer that he be transferred into retirement...His personnel file is attached...". Docketed in several places, files holes, else very good. On 8 September 1943, Philipp was arrested on suspicion of espionage as he was married to the daughter of Italian King Victor Emanuele III. He was stripped of his membership in the party and sent to Flossenbuerg concentration camp where he was placed in solitary confinement. On 25 January 1944, his political disgrace became public when he was dismissed from his office as Governor of Hesse-Nassau. Philipp's wife Mafalda was arrested and eventually sent to Buchenwald where she was mortally wounded in a bombing raid.

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