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JUSTICE WALTER BUCH/(1883 – 1949) Chief Judge of the Nazi party and father-in-law of Martin Bormann. Major participant in the 1934 S.A. ‘Blood Purge’ in which he murdered many former comrades personally. Typed on Chief Justice of the Party Supreme Court letterhead 1p. Munich April 5 1937 to the Reich Leader of the League of German Girls Mrs. Trude Burkner-Mohr in part: ‘I have just returned from an eight-week trip to America and would like to thank you cordially for your letters…as well as for the two lovely albums you have sent me. The pictures gave me great pleasure. My wife and daughters are delighted too…’ Buch signs in brown indelible pencil at the conclusion. Two file holes else fine.

Walter Buch (24 October 1883 – 12 November 1949) was a German jurist and SS official during the Nazi era. He was Martin Bormann’s father-in-law. After the end of the Second World War in Europe, Buch was classified as a major regime functionary or “Hauptschuldiger” in Denazification proceedings in 1949. On 12 November of that year, he committed suicide.
After the end of the Second World War in Europe, Buch was seized and sentenced to five years in a labour camp. In July 1949, in the course of another wave of Denazification, he was classified as a major regime functionary or “Hauptschuldiger”. Few weeks after his release from prison, on 12 November 1949, he ended his own life by slitting his wrists and throwing himself into the Ammersee