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28th German Military & Propaganda auction
Lot 789:
Alfred Rosenberg (1892/3 to 1946). Head of the NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs during the entire rule of Nazi Germany (1933–1945), and led Amt Rosenberg ("Rosenberg’s bureau"), an official Nazi body for cultural policy and surveillance, between 1934 and 1945. During World War II, Rosenberg was the head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (1941–1945). After the war, he was sentenced to death by hanging at the Nuremberg Trials and executed on 16 October 1946. Dinner knife believed to have been owned and used by Alfred Rosenberg. Approx. 25.5 cm long, with silver handle with a beaded edge. Fanciful "AR" engraved initials on the handle, just beneath a static swastika. A band about the handle is purity-stamped "90" but bears no other marks. Bears "J. A. Henckels Solingen" maker mark contemporary to the time. Accompanied by copies of the original ca. 1960’s letter of provenance from a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel. He claims that while stationed in West Berlin in 1968-69, he acquired a pair of knives from a German neighbour "…who was the niece of an Italian woman who had worked as a maid for Rosenberg…They were pilfered from his quarters by the maid, who passed them on to the niece, who passed them on to me…". There is also a copy of a signed typed note from the niece, a "Fr[au] H. Von Bulow", Dec. 11, 1968, who attests that her aunt had obtained six knives from the residence of Rosenberg. All items for this auction will be shipping from Europe. Shipping cost $20 it doesn’t matter how many items you win.
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