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Erich Koch

Sold for $340 at Alexander Historical Auctions LLC on Apr 5, 2022.

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ERICH KOCH (1896 - 1986) Gauleiter of East Prussia and Reichskommissar of the Ukraine with control of the Gestapo and the uniformed police. His domain now extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea; it comprised ethnic German, Polish, Belarus and Ukrainian areas. Koch worked together with Fritz Sauckel in providing the Reich with forced labor. He was also involved in the persecution and mass-murder of Polish and Ukrainian Jews. T.L.S. on his personal Oberpresident letterhead, 1p. 4to., Konigsberg, 4to., June 27, 1940 to WILHELM BRUCKNER. In part: '...Thank you for your wishes for my birthday...in these moving days of wartime events...Heil Hitler!...' Closed binder holes at left, some docketing and folds, else very good.

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