Letters from Himmler, Heydrich, etc.

[Stepdale]

Hello to All,
I picked up a grouping of letters signed by high German officials during WW2. They were in a longtime collection of autographs from celebrities of Czechoslovakia. The collector lived near Reichenberg (present day Liberec in the Czech Republic), the seat of the Sudetengau during the occupation. All of these evidently came out of the office Walter Henlein, the pre-occupation leader of the Sudetendeutsche Partei, who secretly conspired with Hitler to create the crisis leading up to the Munich Agreement. After the incorporation of the Sudetenland into the Reich he became the NSDAP Gauleiter and Governor for the Sudetengau. He killed himself in US captivity in Pilsen in 1945. To see more on him, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Henlein

I am not a paper or signature collector, but I was looking for someone who is to give me some advice as to pricing. Depending on the answer I may then try to sell it.

Sorry for the low quality scans but it's difficult to fit documents into the alllowed dimensions. Each scan is roughly a third of actual size.

First up is a note from Henlein to a "Comrade Frank" congratulating him on receiving the German Cross in Gold. I'm not sure who Frank was.

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Here's a letter from Karl Hermann Frank. I darkened it a bit to make the words easier to read. Read about Frank here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Hermann_Frank

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A thank you note from Reinhard Heydrich. See more on him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich

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A thank you note from Albert Bormann, the brother of NSDAP leader Martin Bormann: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bormann.

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A thank you note from Dr. Franz Hueber, President of the National Administrative Courts: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hueber

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A thank you note from Himmler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler

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A letter from a NSFK-Obersturmbannfuehrer from an NSFK Standarte in Teplitz (Teplice in the modern Czech Republic).

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A thank you note from Walter Funk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Funk

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A thank you note from Seyss-Inquart, National Commissioner for the Netherlands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Seyss-Inquart

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I believe this one is from Wilhelm Frick, former Nazi Interior Minister, hanged at Nueremberg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Frick

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A thank you note from Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_von_Brauchitsch

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Finally, a postcard of Henlein.

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Back side of the postcard and final post. I look forward to your comments.
Dale

[PZIV]

Himmler could fetch over $1000 and Borman could get a good amount. This is of course assuming these are original, which I do not know how to tell.

[Erich B.]

They look 100% to me from these scans. The Heydrich thank you is worth the most--I would say in the range of $1200-1500.00. The Himmler is 2nd at around $1000.00 as K98 has written. The others vary from a couple hundred dollars to $500 or so. Even though they're mainly just thank you notes (just think, if all of the time and effort put into birthday greetings, congratulationary notes, and thank you notes was devoted to the war effort, the war might have gone differently! How did they have time to sign all of this correspondence?!), they're nice examples.
Erich