186 Ernennungsurkunde zum Preussischen Staatsrat für den Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler.

  Large format printed certificate with the Prussian eagle with swastika. The text in Fraktur script: "On the basis of the Law on the State Council, I hereby appoint you as Prussian State Councilor. I execute this document in the expectation that you will fulfill your duties according to law and justice for the good of the people and that you will justify the confidence shown in you by this appointment. At the same time I assure you of my special protection. Berlin, September 15, 1933 . the Prussian Prime Minister" With original signature of Hermann Göring in ink and large embossed seal of the Prussian Prime Minister. Partially handwritten inscription in the lower margin: " To Herr Reichsführer der SS Himmler M.d.R." The certificate in original black award folder the cover with silver embossed Prussian eagle (with swastika). 445 x 320 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 the 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 executed war criminals. 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. Perhaps the most important Himmler - documents that have been offered at auction so far and a contemporary historical document of the utmost rarity.

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