^#54 ^Lot 57 Adolf Hitler signed document.

(1889 - 1945) Fuhrer of Germany and Nazi Party leader, Hitler's bloody rise to power, his military seizure of most of Europe and North Africa and his genocidal racial policies culminated in suicide in his Berlin bunker as Russian troops approached.
war-date typed D.S., 1p. large 4to., Berlin, Apr. 11, 1935. Hitler makes four appointments: FRIEDRICH FREIHERR KRESS VON KRESSENSTEIN (1870 - 1948) is appointed commandant of Leipzig; ERICH HOEPNER (1886 - 1944) is appointed Chief of Staff of Command Group 1. He would later be executed for his involvement in the July 20 plot.
Generalmajor VON ZEPPELIN of the Prussian Landespolizei is appointed to a Prussian self-defense department; Generalmajor GUNTHER VON POGRELL (1879-1944) is appointed Inspector of Cavalry; and a "Dr. Kersting" is placed at the disposal of the army command. Co-signed by WERNER VON BLOMBERG (1878-1946) Minister of Defense and Supreme Commander of the German Armies, and by WERNER VON FRITSCH (1880-1939), Commander in Chief of the German Army. Folds, else fine with blind-embossed seal.