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VERY RARE EDMUND HEINES SIGNATURE
EDMUND HEINES/(1897 ñ 1934) Nazi Party leader and Ernst Rohm’s deputy in the SA. Murdered in the purge that would come to be known as the Night of the Long Knives. Very rare and fine association typed , Heinesí 1p. legal folio, Breslau, May 16, 1934. As leader of the Silesia Group and just three months before his execution, Heines directs a report to [Friedrich-Wilhelm] Kruger regarding optical tools. In part: ëObsertsturmfuhrer [Fritz] Bracht, a member of my staff, has offered me his advice on the procurement of optical objects, both scientifically and commercially assume that the head of the training department may be interested in this. Very good. Friedrich-Wilhelm Kruger (1894-1945) was SA-Obersturmfuhrer Ausbildungswesen , but more notoriously known for overseeing the murder of six million Poles. Committed suicide rather than face the Nuremburg IMT. Fritz Bracht (1889-1945) was a Gauleiter of Upper Silesia who committed suicide with his wife on June 9, 1945 as the Red Army marched into Silesia.RARE AND SELDOM FIND THIS SIGNATURE

Edmund Heines (21 July 1897 – 30 June 1934) was a German Nazi politician and Deputy to Ernst Röhm, the Stabschef of the Sturmabteilung (SA). Heines was one of the earliest members of the Nazi Party and a leading member of the SA in Munich, participating in the Beer Hall Putsch and becoming a notorious enforcer of the party. He held several high-ranking positions in the Nazi administration until he was executed during the Night of the Long Knives in June 1934.

Heines’s younger brother, Oskar, was an Obersturmbannführer of the SA, and on the morning of 1 July 1934, he heard a radio report concerning the execution of his brother. Soon after, Oskar Heines and SA-Obersturmbannführer Werner Engels, reported to the Polizeipräsidium in Breslau, where they were immediately placed under arrest by SS men. From there, they were driven that night to a forested area near Deutsch-Lissa (now Wrocław-Leśnica, Poland). At dawn on 2 July 1934, the two were shot on orders of SS-Obergruppenführer Udo von Woyrsch.