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SCARCE GERTRUD SCHOLTZ-KLINK, SIGNED PHOTO CARD,
(1902 – 1999) German Reich Women’s Leader and head of the Nazi Women’s League. Her main task was to promote male superiority and the importance of child-bearing. Scarce AUTOGRAPH 3.5 x 5.5 in. a Hoffmann photo postcard FULL SIGNATURE GREEN INK.
mounting remnants to the corners, otherwise fine.
SCARCE THIRD REICH AUTOGRAPH
Gertrud Emma Scholtz-Klink, later known as Maria Stuckebrock was a Nazi Party member and leader of the National Socialist Women’s League (NS-Frauenschaft) in Nazi Germany.
At the end of World War II in Europe, Scholtz-Klink and Heissmeyer fled from the Battle of Berlin. After the fall of Nazi Germany, in the summer of 1945, she was briefly detained in a Soviet prisoner of war camp near Magdeburg, but escaped shortly afterwards. With the assistance of Princess Pauline of Württemberg, she and her third husband went into hiding in Bebenhausen near Tübingen. They spent the subsequent three years under the aliases of Heinrich and Maria Stuckebrock. On 28 February 1948, the couple were identified and arrested. A French military court sentenced Scholtz-Klink to 18 months in prison on the charge of forging documents.

In May 1950, a review of her sentence classified her as a “main culprit” and sentenced her to an additional 30 months. In addition, the court imposed a fine and banned her from political and trade union activity, journalism and teaching for ten years. After her release from prison in 1953, Scholtz-Klink settled back in Bebenhausen.