RARE!! "Resistance Fighter" Otto von Strahl Hand Written Note From 1954 COA

Description: Up for auction a RARE! "Resistance Fighter" Otto von Strahl Hand Written Note. This item is certified authentic by JG Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity. ES-1011B Otto von Strahl (December 5, 1882 in Hanau- April 8, 1961 in San Francisco) was a German diplomat who became a resistance fighter after leaving the Foreign Office. in South Africa and cooperated with the government there. Otto von Strahl grew up as the son of a Prussian officer who was elevated to the nobility in 1879 and a countess of the Monts family. After several years of private lessons, he attended the gymnasium in Hanau, where he graduated from high school in 1903. He then served in the military. He then studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg and the Philipps-Universität Marburg, where he passed his traineeship in 1907. After the legal preparation service he completed his examination as an assessorin 1913. His father recommended him for the Foreign Service. However, his further efforts were interrupted by the First World War. There he was promoted to the riding master of the reserve and worked as head of the passport and registration office. He was later accused of favoring Polish Jews in the granting of passports, but the charges in this regard were later dropped and Strahl was officially pardoned by William II. On 20 April 1918, Strahl began his service as an attaché in the press department of the Foreign Office. He commuted between the Berlin headquarters and various foreign representations. So he worked in various positions in Stockholm, in Reichenberg and in the Netherlands. He headed the consulate in Maastrichtfor four years. In Guatemala he met the occultist and fortune teller Lotte Plaat, for whom he left his first wife Elisabeth Lagerbielke, with whom he had two children. The two settled in Bergen and tried to arrange themselves with National Socialism. Strahl spoke twice in person to Adolf Hitler. However, an application for membership of the NSDAP was rejected in 1934. He was then recalled to the Berlin headquarters and transferred to Durban in South Africa in 1936. On the basis of denunciation, the Gestapo, the criminal police as well as the staff management of the NSDAP investigated Strahl and his wife. The foreign organization of the NSDAP also tried to remove him from office. However, all the accusations were arguably greatly exaggerated and without substance. Nevertheless, he was relieved of his post as consul in 1938 and ordered back to Berlin with a pension. He then worked for electrical and chemical companies abroad and returned to South Africa with his wife shortly afterwards. Strahl did not leave, like many of his compatriots, South Africa during World WarII. Instead, he briefed the government of South Africa down to the smallest detail on the activities of the National Socialists and gave it extensive dossiers composed of the documents he worked on during his time as consul. He passed on the material as a so-called "white book". He also created a "List of Dangerous Nazis" and an overview of the main Nazi organizations under the title "Protect Your Home Country". In 1942, he published his memoirs "Seven Years As a Nazi Consul" at a publishing house in Cape Town. In the same year he was officially granted British citizenship through Naturalisation. It was not until 1944 that the book became known in the Third Reich. They then tried to get him to be expelled. However, this did not succeed. By 1943, however, he had been put into permanent retirement, but the money remained in a domestic account, and he had no access to it. In 1944 he published the brochure "What Shall We Do with Nazi Germany" in Cape Town, in which he gave suggestions on how to deal with the German Reich after his imminent surrender. He made suggestions on how to rebuild and gave suggestions on how to deal with the country in foreign policy. In 1947 Strahl moved with his wife to Hollywood, California to the UnitedStates. There he hired himself as a technical consultant for cinema films, so he was used in The Case of Cicero (1951), Alt Heidelberg and Rommel, the Desert Fox. From there, from 1951 he sought his old salaries and applied for reparation for his injustice, i.e. his forced retirement and the withholding of the remuneration. However, this proved difficult. In fact, he was denied both compensation and his legal money. The reason given was his alleged lack of resistance, which could be proved by a copy of the book, but this was not enough for the German authorities. Instead, he was accused of his first years as a British citizen, as well as being a British citizen. The accusations from the time of the First World War were also highlighted again. The application was rejected, and Strahl had no financial resources for a new lawsuit. Strahl sold his remaining property in Germany and became an American citizen. He was largely penniless in San Francisco, where he died on April 8, 1961.

Price: 699.99 USD

Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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