WW2 german Nazi early Waffen SS ID ausweis stamped Himmler signature facsimile

Himmler Security Police SIPO polizei gestapo WEST GERMANY metal truncheon whip Sicherheitspolizei

Very nice SIPO retractible truncheon.
Steel wire construction which extends from a 6 1/4\" metal tube.
for German SIPO Polizei. In very good condition.
These were used by Sicherheitspolizei during Nazi Germany. RARE

When the Nazis came to national power, Germany, as a federal state, had myriad local and centralized police agencies, which often were un-coordinated and had overlapping jurisdictions. Himmler and Heydrich's grand plan was to fully absorb all the police and security apparatus into the Schutzstaffel. To this end, Himmler took command first of the Gestapo (itself developed from the Prussian Secret Police). Then on 17 June 1936 all police forces throughout Germany were united, following Adolf Hitler's appointment of Himmler as Chef der Deutschen Polizei (Chief of German Police). As such he was nominally subordinate to Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, but in practice Himmler answered only to Hitler.

Himmler immediately reorganised the police, with the state agencies statutorily divided into two groups: the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police; Orpo), consisting of both the national uniformed police and the municipal police, and the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police; SiPo)rm, consisting of the Kripo and Gestapo. Reinhard Heydrich was appointed chief of the SiPo and was already head of the party Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service; SD) and the Gestapo. The two police branches were commonly known as the Orpo and SiPo (Kripo and Gestapo combined), respectively.

The idea was to fully identify and integrate the party agency (SD) with the state agency (SiPo). Most of the SiPo members were encouraged or volunteered to become members of the SS and many held a rank in both organisations. Nevertheless, in practice there was jurisdictional overlap and operational conflict between the SD and Gestapo. The Kripo kept a level of independence since its structure was longer-established. Himmler founded the Hauptamt Sicherheitspolizei in order to create a centralized main office under Heydrich's overall command of the SiPo.

The Einsatzgruppen were formed under the direction of Heydrich and operated by the SS under the SiPo and SD. The Einsatzgruppen had its origins in the ad hoc Einsatzkommando formed by Heydrich to secure government buildings and documents following the Anschluss in Austria in March 1938. Originally part of the SiPo, two units of Einsatzgruppen were stationed in the Sudetenland in October 1938. When military action turned out not to be necessary because of the Munich Agreement, the Einsatzgruppen were assigned to confiscate government papers and police documents. They also secured government buildings, questioned senior civil servants, and arrested as many as 10,000 Czech communists and German citizens.

CREATION OF THE WAFFEN SS by HIMMLER - large BOOK with ORIGINAL HEINRICH HIMMLER HANDMADE SIGNATURE with COA
comes with a hard cover flip protective pouch

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN!!

When Himmler created the SS and all that comes around (the old runes, the basic provenance) it took his inspiration from that book!
only 350 were made, i am pretty sure less than 5 still exists !!

and you have on the first page, an amazing HANDMADE original signature of HIMMLER!
this is a top museum quality stuff!

it comes with a valid certificate of authenticity for the signature.
also comes with a hard cover flip protection with a silver third reich eagle on it.

Die erste Walpurgisnacht
The First Walpurgis Night / by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Drawn on stone by Otto Pech, Altenburg. [Accompanying text: Pix] ; Lithograph by the Kunstanstalt vorm. Schneider u. Co. Altenburg i. Trier

Title: The first Walpurgis Night / by Johann ...
Publisher: Bad Harzburg
Publication date: 1924
Cover: 41 x 35 cm [folder]
Condition: Very good
Edition: 350 copies

about the book :

Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht (The First Walpurgis Night) , based on a text by Goethe, is a work fraught with ambiguities and paradoxes. It is a major work by the composer that should not be overlooked in any serious discussion of Mendelssohn's life and work. Nevertheless, the piece has never been published in a source-critical edition. The first editions, carefully curated by Mendelssohn himself, were replaced by others that gradually corrupted the musical text of the work.

we know Walpurgis Night as a nightly spring feast based on the more or less fantastical notion of a witches' sabbath. In mythology and history, it is also closely associated with the peak of the Brocken, the highest mountain in the Harz Mountains. Today's concertgoers are generally unaware that for Goethe, Mendelssohn, and their contemporaries, that night was a predetermined celebration, evoking centuries of strife, conflict, mystery, and violence. Essentially, it was about religious intolerance and the murky boundaries between the natural and the supernatural, the boundaries between certainties and what we cannot know.

The genesis of Mendelssohn's cantata can essentially be divided into two periods. The first, spanning the years 1830 to 1833, produced a complete musical setting, which premiered successfully in Berlin under the composer's direction and was initially intended for publication but ultimately not. During the later 1830s, Mendelssohn became increasingly dissatisfied with this setting, and after 1840 he revised the work again. The revisions developed a life of their own, becoming increasingly extensive the more attention the composer devoted to the project. Subsequently, the revisions that the revised version had undergone before the premiere in February 1843 were expanded even further while the printing of the piano reduction was in preparation. Between the publication of the piano reduction in late 1843 and the printing of the score in the spring of 1844, further substantial changes were made.

"(In the last days of paganism in Germany, Christians forbade Druid sacrifices under penalty of death. Despite this, the Druids and the people sought to conquer the mountain heights at the beginning of spring, offer their sacrifices there, and intimidate and drive away the Christian warriors (usually through their fear of the devil). The legend of the first Walpurgis Night is said to be based on such attempts.)"

It will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Mendelssohn's self-critical attitude and his tendency to withhold many important compositions that "The First Walpurgis Night" also underwent numerous revisions between its premiere and publication. More surprising, however, is that in the published score, the composer replaced the introduction with an excerpt from a letter from Goethe dated September 9, 1831. In doing so, he weakened the literary-historical subject of the work in favor of a more overarching symbolism. The new introduction reads:

"For it must continually repeat itself in world history that something old, established, tested, and reassuring is pushed, pushed, displaced, and, if not eradicated, at least crammed into the narrowest possible space by emerging innovations. The middle period, when hatred can and may still counteract, is portrayed here succinctly enough, and a joyful, indestructible enthusiasm flares up once more in splendor and clarity. You have certainly given life and meaning to all this, and so may it also flourish for my joyful enjoyment."

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