Hotel Kaiserhof Letter to Von Schirach

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KAISERHOF HOTEL BERLIN LETTER

AN ORIGINAL 1942 LETTER FROM
THE HOTEL KAISERHOF IN BERLIN TO
REICHSLEITER BALDUR VON SCHIRACH IN WIEN

Hotel Kaiserhof was the first luxury hotel in Berlin. It opened in 1875 and at the time it was the only hotel to offer rooms, all 260 of them, with electricity, bathroom and telephone. The owners of the hotel were sympathizers with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, with the result that the upper floors of the hotel were used as NSDAP headquarters prior to the 1932 and 1933 German elections. Hitler himself had a permanent room there prior to becoming Chancellor and during renovations of the Chancellor’s apartments in the old Reichschancellery.

When Hermann Göring married second wife Emmy in April 1935, the wedding reception was held at the Kaiserhof Hotel. Nazi Propaganda Minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels used the name of the hotel in the title of his book Vom Kaiserhof zur Reichskanzlei (the Reichschancellery was just across the street from the hotel, on Wilhelmstrasse).

Offered for sale is a splendid original A4 size letter dated 16 July 1942, a confirmation of Reichsleiter Baldur von Schirach’s recent “reservation request for his usual room 149/151” at the Kaiserhof Hotel in Berlin, Germany.

Kaiserhof to Reichsleiter Baldur von Schirach

Hitler, Hess and Von Schirach at
Reichsparteitag in Nürnberg 1937.

The letter also confirms a reservation Von Schirach had made for the Obergauführerin of München (Munich), Fraulein Ludwig. The letter closes with the words “We Greet You With Heil Hitler!” and the signature of Frau Schroeder of the management of the Kaiserhof.

A very rare piece of correspondence in very good condition, from the collection of authors Ray & Josephine Cowdery. Comes with a signed and dated Certificate of Authenticity.

The Hotel Kaiserhof, shown right, was destroyed during an British bombing raid on 23 November 1943. Since 1974, the embassy of North Korea is on the spot in central Berlin where the majestic Kaiserhof Hotel once stood.

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This letter to Reichsleiter Baldur von Schirach is
**SOLD**.

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