Chancellery Stationary used to send home a note

[Serge M.]

I am not sure this belongs in this section...if not please remove.

From a vet grouping I recently received the usual standard daggers and medals. Except for one 1944 JH silver sports badge that nobody has seemed to have seen before (posted in Tinnies), was also this unusual "Souvenir" letter.
U.S. Lt. Col. Bond's group was the the Lead Intellegence officer, from what I understand, that was allowed into Berlin by the Russians looking still for the Fuhrer. While digging through the Chancellery he wrote home a note on Hitlers own Note/letter head stationary. He enclosed an unsigned "Chancellery" reply letter to a woman who was wanted to have Hitler to be the "Godfather" to her child. The letter is dated April 1, 1945! Col. Bond had the letter translated and sent it home in a Chancellery Envelope from Berlin in July of 1945.
The Russians "delayed" the letter for 6 months. Arriving in December, it seems that the post office wanted to return it "to sender" due to lack of an additional .6 cent stamp.
Guys I've seen a lot in this hobby over the years but this kind of touched me in a way where many other artifacts did not. I don't know why just did.
I hope you don't mind the extra postings.

Regards,

-wagner-

[paddywhack]

now that pretty cool!6 months for 6 cents never changes does it!!

[JAYP]

Hi,Years ago I bought a scrapbook from a local vet who was in Naval Intelliegence and was also in Berlin at the end of the war,he also wrote letters home on Hitlers and Bormanns stationary.He had a bunch of Knights Cross Folders red and white ones that he made into photo albums.The vet was a paper freak and took paper items and stationary from most of the intelliegence offices in Berlin including Gestapo headquarters the RLM etc..I sold the scrapbook in the early days of Ebay and it ended up in Manion's.Jay Parisi

[torstenbel]

Eugene certainly had a great sense of homour ..