Original Item. Only One Available. The NSDAP, or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Worker’s Party), was originally founded in Munich as the DAP, or Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (German Worker’s Party), on January 5 1919. When Adolf joined the DAP in the autumn of 1919 he was to reform what was basically a debating society into an active political party. Appointed as the first chairman of the party on July 29TH 1921 he was to restructure it along para-military lines in a hierarchy of four levels of government.

During the next decade, the NSDAP gradually grew in power, and on January 30, 1933 Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf H as Reichskanzler (Chancellor of Germany), after which he quickly consolidated power to become a true dictator. As such he had a large number of personal staff, including numerous different adjutants, generally only seen in the military, but with the Para-military organization of the NSDAP, they were considered necessary. Each generally was from a specific military or para-military organization under the NSDAP.

Here we have a very nice 8 1/4" x 5 13/16" Reichs Chancellery letterhead from one of the 10+ adjutants that der Führer Adolf H had when he was in power. These would have been used to send official communication during the NSDAP period. The upper left bears the NSDAP Reichsadler eagle, over the following text:-

DER FÜHRER UND KANZLER DES DEUTSCHEN REICHES
ADJUTANTUR

This translates to: The Führer and Chancellor of the German Reich, Adjutant. We assume that each adjutant may have had a stamp that they would apply to the letterhead to indicate which particular office it was from, in addition to the signature that would be applied. We have carefully examined the type of paper used, the age toning, and the printing style, and it is all correct for the WWII Period. We have compared it carefully to other known examples, and it is an exact match.

A very interesting piece of third reich memorabilia, ready to add to your collection and display!

The Reich Chancellery (Reichskanzlei) was the traditional name of the office of the Chancellor of Germany (then called Reichskanzler) in the period of the German Reich from 1878 to 1945. The Chancellery's seat, selected and prepared since 1875, was the former city palace of Prince Antoni Radziwiłł (1775–1833) on Wilhelmstraße in Berlin. Both the palace and a new Reich Chancellery building (completed in early 1939) were seriously damaged during World War II and subsequently demolished.

After the NSDAP takeover in 1933, the "Old" Reich Chancellery building was remodeled into a domicile for Der Führer, with some additions including a reception hall / ballroom, as well as an underground bunker. In late January 1938, Adolf H officially assigned his favourite architect, Albert Speer, to build the New Reich Chancellery around the corner on Voßstraße, a western branch-off of Wilhelmstraße, requesting that the building be completed within a year. Adolf commented that Bismarck's Old Chancellery was "fit for a soap company" and not suitable as headquarters of a Greater German Reich. It nevertheless remained his official residence, where he lived in the so-called Führerwohnung ("Leader apartment"). The Old and New Chancellery shared a large garden area, with the underground Führerbunker, where Adolf H ultimately committed suicide at the end of April 1945.