515 Ernennungsurkunde für Hermann Göring zum Generalfeldmarschall.

 The document double sheet with gold embossed head vignette " In the name of the German people" in Frakturschruft. Typewritten text: "I promote / the Reich Minister of Aviation and Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force / Colonel General Göring / to Field Marshal General. / Berlin, February 4, 1938 / The Führer and Reich Chancellor." With original ink signature Adolf Hitler. Inscribed in lower left corner, "For the Reich Minister of Aviation / and Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force. / W.A. No. 100 / 38 WP." In original award folder of fine laid paper. On the cover sovereign eagle in deep gold embossing. 354 x 254 mm. This piece is illustrated and described in John K. Lattimer book: Hitler and the Nazi Leaders...,1999, p.71. Provenance: John K. Lattimer Collection. Hollywood-ready - no other word could better describe the life and work of John Kingsley Lattimer (1914-2007). The physician became famous not only for his work as head of the urology department at the renowned Columbia University or for such prominent patients as Katharine Hepburn, Greta Garbo and Charles Lindbergh. It was primarily his fascination with historical objects and attention to detail that made him world famous. Lattimer collected, and he collected a lot - so much that the entire third floor of his Englewood mansion became a kind of museum, as the New York Times wrote in its obituary. The physician was fascinated with weapons as a boy - later deepened by his stint as an Army doctor during the invasion of Normandy in World War II, where he trained medical personnel and saved the lives of many U.S. soldiers. During the Nuremberg war crimes trials, Lattimer was responsible for the medical care of the accused. It is possible that he used this opportunity to obtain belongings of the prisoners. It was he who examined the body of Goering after his suicide, and he established the death of all those executed. In 1999, Lattimer published the book Hitler's Fatal Sickness and other Secrets of the Nazi Leaders. In it, he not only wrote about the care of the imprisoned and various medical examination results, but commented on Hitler's possible Parkinson's disease. One of the most important award certificates of Hermann Göring that has been offered at auction so far and a document of contemporary history of the utmost rarity.

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