Never before seen notes and cards from Hitler show how he rewarded evil Nazi enforcer with stolen presents
Newly uncovered letters and cards reveal how Nazi leader Adolf Hitler personally rewarded one of his most evil World War Two henchmen with stolen presents.
The documents are a historic paper trail linking Hitler to one of his top enforcers. While Hitler wrote to many party officials, these letters are particularly interesting because they were sent to the same man, Otto Telschow, over a four year period.
He received personal Christmas gifts every single year from 1941 to 1944, which Hitler boasted had been openly taken from foreign shipments and occupied territories, at the very height of evil Nazi crimes.
The cards form part of a recently discovered diary which the Mirror revealed last month. In 1941 Hitler wrote to Telschow: “I kindly ask you to accept this package of coffee as a small gift. It comes from the remains of a larger shipment that was donated to me from abroad.”
At the time, coffee was unobtainable for ordinary Germans. The gifts continued. In 1942, Hitler wrote: “I would like to ask you to accept the following package as a small gift again this year. It consists of items that were made available to me from abroad and from the occupied territories.”
In 1943, he repeated the wording almost exactly: “Once again this year, I kindly ask you to accept the following package as a small gift. It consists of items that were made available to me from abroad or from the occupied territories.”
And in 1944, as Germany faced defeat, Hitler still sent a Christmas parcel: “It gives me great pleasure to send you, as in previous years, this small Christmas gift in the form of a parcel containing whatever I had left over.”
The WW2 75 page leather bound diary surfaced at an auction in the United States. How it ended up there is unknown. The Lüneburg City Archive bought it for £6,000
Experts examined the paper, binding, ink and handwriting. They compared it with other documents and concluded it was definitely authentic. It included details of their meetings and how Telschow diligently carried out orders.
On one occasion he wrote of Hitler having a hand injury saying: ”The Führer greeted us with his left hand, as his right is still swollen. But when he speaks, he is the same as always.”
Telschow began his diary in March 1941. He was 65 and a committed National Socialist. In his role as ‘Gauleiter’ – a Nazi chief who carried political responsibility for a region – he freely used his authority to crush all enemies.
Telschow died in 1945, just days after a failed suicide attempt. He was the Gauleiter of Ost-Hannover, a notorious Nazi regional boss who drove antisemitic persecution, repression and forced labour on the ground.
He ruled Ost-Hannover with an iron fist from 1930 until April 1945. The importance of the find lies in its clarity. The letters show Hitler repeatedly rewarding a known extremist and regional enforcer – in writing – with goods looted from abroad, while that man implemented Nazi terror locally.
Telschow was not a famous Nazi leader like Goebbels or Himmler. He was a typical Gauleiter, powerful in his region and largely unknown outside it. Experts said this is precisely why the letters matter.
They show that Nazi crimes were enforced not only by notorious figures at the top, but by fanatical regional bosses whose brutality was quietly and repeatedly rewarded by Hitler himself.
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