A Very Rare NUREMBERG PRISONER AUTOGRAPH ALBUM Signatures Of Future Nuremberg War Crimes Trials Defendants, Obtained When They Were First Interned At ‘Ashcan’, Certified By The Gettysburg Museum Of History

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A Very Rare NUREMBERG PRISONER AUTOGRAPH ALBUM Signatures Of Future Nuremberg War Crimes Trials Defendants, Obtained When They Were First Interned At ‘Ashcan’, Certified By The Gettysburg Museum Of History. Excellent assemblage of signatures of future Nuremberg War Crimes Trials defendants, obtained when they were first interned at ‘Ashcan’, formally known as the Central Continental Prisoner of War Enclosure No. 32 and code-named ‘Ashcan’. The facility was an Allied prisoner-of-war camp in the Palace Hotel of Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg and operating from May to August, 1945. It served as a processing station and interrogation center for the 86 most prominent surviving Nazi leaders prior to their trials in Nuremberg, including Hermann Goring and Karl Donitz. Offered here is a small autograph book containing 25 signatures of prominent internees, all obtained in July, 1945 and prior to the proceedings at Nuremberg. Of particular interest is the fact that most of the Germans signed adding their previous ranks or titles, as if they still possessed those distinctions. Among those signing are: MIKLOS HORTHY, FRANZ VON PAPEN, WALTHER DARRE, JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP, FRANZ VON EPP, HERMANN GOERING (who adds ‘Reichsmarshall Juli 1945’), WILHELM KEITEL, WALTER WARLIMONT, ALFRED JODL, EDMUND VON THERMANN, GRAF SCHWERIN VON KROSIGK, JULIUS STREICHER, HANS LAMMERS, ALBERT KESSELRING, WALTHER FUNK, FRANZ SELDTE, HANS FRANK, ROBERT LEY, ALFRED ROSENBERG, KARL DONITZ, HANS-JOACHIM REICKE, and a few others, unidentified. Sold with a 3 x 5 in. snapshot of five prisoners relaxing outdoors behind barbed wire, one possibly Hermann Goring. Covers of book detached from contents, which are fine. While signers of the Nuremberg defendants while on trial are actually not rare, their signatures with ranks and government position while prisoner at Ashcan and excessively rare.  The signatures are hand signed (autographed) in black fountain pen ink. This bold dark signature is about as nice as one can get, and it is a very nice dark signatures with no  issues.  This autographs are in good condition.  The overall size of the book itself is about 4″/6″. Complete museum documentation (COA) Provided. Certified by The Gettysburg Museum of History. 100% guaranteed to be authentic. The Gettysburg Museum of History does not support or condone Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party and is only offering this as a historic relic. Please see our other items.    Also note when browsing our web site there are several pages of items, at the bottom of the list look for other page numbers. Nuremburg defendant Autographs are RARE and Very Desirable To Collectors And Historians and Ashcan versions are almost unheard of!! DO NOT MISS THIS! An amazing historical archive.