Letter to Hitler, congratulating him on the resolution of the Sudeten issue, and suggesting that he view sets of tapestries collected in Austria and choose those he wishes to use in his buildings
Authors
Arthur Seyss-Inquart (Nazi official, Austria, Poland, Netherlands)
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Austrian Nazi politician, and Nazi ruler of occupied Netherlands, convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death (1892-1946)
- Born: 1892-07-22 (StonaĆov)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
- Country of citizenship: Austria; Austria-Hungary; Nazi Germany
- Occupation: jurist; lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: Fatherland Front; Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Position held: Federal Chancellor of Austria (period: 1938-03-11 through 1938-03-13; replaced by: Anschluss; replaces: Kurt Schuschnigg); Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs (period: 1945-04-30 through 1945-05-02; replaced by: Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk; replaces: Joachim von Ribbentrop); Reichskommissar; member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
- Employer: Austrian Federal Government; Reichskommissariat Niederlande
Date: 30 September 1938
Defendant: Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-3391
HLSL Item No.: 453266
Notes:The document is incomplete; only one page is present here. This document was apparently not entered as evidence. Seyss-Inquart describes two sets of tapestries, one made in Brussels in the 17th century on a Roman theme, the second on the life of Alexander the Great.
Document Summary
PS-3391: Letter - Seyss-Inquart to Hitler