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NAZI LETTER TO HIMMLER REGARDING A JEWISH POLICEMAN
Deceased Jewish policeman
A LETTER FROM THE CHIEF OF POLICE IN WIEN TO
REICHSFÜHRER-SS HEINRICH HIMMLER
REGARDING THE DEBT OF A DECEASED
JEWISH POLICEMAN
Letter to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler
This extremely interesting A4 size (8-1/4 x 11-5/8 inch) two-page letter dated 28 June 1940 was written by a police official named Gotzmann of the Office of the Chief of Police in Wien (Vienna - the second largest city in Großdeutschland) to Reichsführer-SS and the Chief of German Police in the Reichsministry of the Interior, Heinrich Himmler, in Berlin.

The subject of the letter is a debt owed to the Chief of Police by a Jew and former employee of the Wien police, Heinrich Israel Balter. Balter had borrowed RM 613.33 (about $245.00) from the Polizeipräsident between 1935 and 1938. He had paid back all but RM 152.66 (about $61.00) before he was “let go” in 1938. All Jews were dismissed from the police in the former Austria when that country was united with Germany in the Anschluß in the spring of 1938.

After being fired from the police, Balter was assaulted (who assaulted him is not specified) and received injuries that left him bedridden and unable to work. He and his wife were living on an invalids pension of RM 56 (about $22.50) per month in a Jewish Old Persons Home.
This letter was written to Heinrich Himmler to explain that Balter had died and that it was the recommendation of the Chief of Police of Vienna that Balter’s debt be written off.

Unique Third Reich material of the most heart-rending sort, from the collection of authors Ray & Josephine Cowdery. The letter comes with a signed and dated Certificate of Authenticity. 		Deceased Jewish policeman
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