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Reichsjugendfuehrer Baldur Benedikt von Schirach signed 6 x 4 inch b/w Hoffman photograph. (May 9, 1907 – August 8, 1974) was a German youth leader later convicted of being a "war criminal". Schirach was the head of the HitlerJugend (HJ, Hitler Youth) and Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter ("Reich Governor") of Vienna. In 1940 he organized the evacuation of 5 million children from cities threatened by Allied bombing. Later that year, he joined the army and volunteered for service in France, where he was awarded the Iron Cross before being recalled. Schirach lost control of the Hitler Youth to Artur Axmann, and was appointed Governor ("Gauleiter" or "Reichsstatthalter") of the Reichsgau Vienna, a post in which he remained until the end of the war. Over the next few years Schirach was responsible for moving Jews from Vienna to camps in Poland. During his tenure 185,000 Jews were deported from Vienna to Poland, and in a speech on 15 September 1942 he mentioned their deportation as a "contribution to European culture." Later during the war von Schirach pleaded for a moderate treatment of the eastern European peoples and criticized the conditions in which Jews were being deported. He fell into disfavor in 1943, but remained at his post. Schirach surrendered in 1945 and was one of the officials put on trial at Nuremberg. At the trial Schirach was one of only two men to denounce Hitler (the other was Albert Speer). He said that he did not know about the extermination camps. He also provided evidence that he had protested to Martin Bormann about the inhumane treatment of the Jews. Also, it was revealed by Schirach at Nuremberg that the roots of his opposition to Jewish supremacism could be found in the readings of Henry Ford's The International Jew. He was found guilty on October 1, 1946, of crimes against humanity for his deportation of the Viennese Jews. He was sentenced and served twenty years as a prisoner in Spandau Prison. On July 20, 1949 his wife Henriette (February 3, 1913 - January 27, 1992) divorced him while he was in prison. He was released on September 30, 1966, and retired quietly to southern Germany. He published his memoirs, Ich glaubte an Hitler (I believed in Hitler), in 1974 and died in Kröv-an-der-Mosel. Good condition. All signed items come with Certificate of Authenticity. Can be shipped worldwide.
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Autograph Auction, Autographs, First Day Covers, Military
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20 May 2016 10:00 BST
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All autographs and first day covers will come securely packaged with an envelope stiffener in a board-backed envelope. Larger photographs and prints are sent in a tough tube, and books and oversized/framed items will be packaged with bubble wrap and sent in a box.