HEINRICH HIMMLER (1900 - 1945) Hitler's Chief of the Gestapo placed in charge of security and responsible for the construction and operation of extermination camps. He chose suicide rather than face a hangman's noose at Nuremberg. Early fine content T.L.S. on N.S.D.A.P. letterhead 1p. oblong 8vo. Munich Sep. 17 1928 to Adolf Hitler then in the same building. From the ""Propaganda Department"" Himmler writes to ""Herr Hitler"" angered that his authority as Deputy Gauleiter of Oberbayern-Swabia is being tested. In part: ""...Enclosed I am sending you a letter from the Gauleitung of Oberbayern-Swabia...please educate Party Member [Hermann] Esser that meetings in...[that] Gau...must be approved by the Gauleitung. Especially today when there are is no voting there is ample time to comply with regulations...if the order of the Gauleitung is broken by the speaker then the authority of the Gauleiter suffers..."". File holes at left margin else fine. Even Himmler could not stop Esser's Bavarian ambitions: in 1933 he was elected to the Reichstag representing the Gau and in 1935 he persuaded Franz Ritter von Epp to make him Bavaria's minister of economics.