Offered for sale is an
ORIGINAL 1940 DOCUMENT, SIGNED BY THE MANAGING DIRECTOR OF THE SS-AHNENERBE
SS-STANDARTENFÜHRER WOLFRAM SIEVERS
HE WAS TRIED AT THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL IN NUREMBERG
SENTENCED TO DEATH AND EXECUTED IN 1948
FULL MONEY BACK GUARANTEE FOR AUTHENTICITY
SS-Standartenführer Wolfram Sievers was Reichsgeschäftsführer (Managing Director) of the SS-Ahnenerbe from 1935 to 1945. He was tried during the Doctors’ Trial at Nuremberg, sentenced to death on 20 August 1947 for crimes against humanity, and hanged on 2 June 1948, at Landsberg prison in Bavaria.
Sievers joined the Nazi Party in 1929. In 1933, he headed the Externsteine-Stiftung (“Externsteine Foundation”), which had been founded by Heinrich Himmler to study the Externsteine in the Teutoburger Wald. In 1935, having joined the SS that year, Sievers was appointed Reichsgeschäftsführer, or General Secretary, of the Ahnenerbe, by Himmler. He was the actual director of Ahnenerbe operations and was to rise to the rank of SS-Standartenführer by the end of the war.
In 1943, Sievers became director of the Institut für Wehrwissenschaftliche Zweckforschung (Institute for Military Scientific Research), which conducted extensive experiments using human subjects. He also assisted in assembling a collection of skulls and skeletons for August Hirt’s study at the Reichsuniversität Straßburg as a part of which 112 Jewish prisoners were selected and killed, after being photographed and their anthropological measurements taken.
Sievers was tried during the Doctors’ Trial at Nuremberg after World War II, where he was dubbed “the Nazi Bluebeard” by journalist William L. Shirer because of his “thick, ink-black beard”. The Institute for Military Scientific Research had been set up as part of the Ahnenerbe, and the prosecution at Nuremberg laid the responsibility for the experiments on humans which had been conducted under its auspices on the Ahnenerbe. Sievers, as its highest administrative officer, was accused of actively aiding and promoting the criminal experiments. [source: Wikipedia]
The document that is offered for sale is ‘Schnellbrief’ (Express Letter) that Sievers sent to several recipients (9) who were all recruited to help with the resettlement of ethnic Germans. Dr. Wolfram Sievers had the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer in May of 1940 when he signed and sent this letter.
The document is in nice condition and the signature is strong. This item ships from one of our affiliates in Germany. It comes from a private collection and has never been offered for sale before. It was purchased directly out of a German archive. The seller gives a full money back guarantee for the authenticity of the document and signature. Includes shipping worldwide.
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