[Music, Life & Death under the Third Reich] Hitler, Adolf. (1889 - 1945)
Signed Album Page to soprano, Margret Pfahl
Bold inscription and signature on a small card, in full: "To Ms. Margret Pfahl, on February 8. 1938. Sincerely, Adolf Hitler." Margret Pfahl (b. 1897) was a popular coloratura soubrette soprano favored by Hitler. She recorded numerous performances, frequently with Clemens Krauss, notably in the works of Lehar and Wagner. Light central fold and soiling, else very good.Penned scarcely three weeks before the Anschluss - the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany - this is a remarkable and chilling association autograph from the Dictator of Germany and Nazi Party leader, whose bloody rise to power, his military seizure of most of Europe and North Africa and his genocidal racial policies culminated in suicide in his Berlin bunker as Russian troops approached. (5368)
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