Auction 85 Part 1
Historical Militaria and Autographs - Day 1
By Alexander Historical Auctions LLC
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Oct 28, 2020
98 Bohemia Ave., St. 2, Chesapeake City, MD 21915, United States
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Nearly 1,600 lots of historical militaria from all conflicts; historical autographs and ephemera from all fields of collecting.
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LOT 255:
LEONARDO CONTI
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Sold for: $340
Start price:
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100
Estimated price :
$200 - $300
Buyer's Premium: 30%
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LEONARDO CONTI
(1900 - 1945) Chief Physician of the Third Reich, he instituted state-sponsored euthanasia programs which resulted in the deaths of thousands of Germans. Held after the war for crimes against humanity, he hanged himself in his cell at Nuremburg. His blue-ink signature 'L. Conti' within his library copy of Wilhelm Krauel's 'Das Lebendige Recht' ('The Living Right'), 239pp. 8vo., bound in orange boards. Lacks publication page. The front pastedown bears Conti's affixed 'ex libris' bookplate, showing an eerie skeleton next to the bed of an ill German woman. Some initial pages absent, with first page slightly broken at the gutter, else very good.
