This sale is from the collection of David Cheney who was the founder of a NH Holocaust museum called “Crossing the Wire” which later was downgraded to a travelling exhibition due to the crippling cost of running the museum. A brief biography of David is listed below which we encourage anyone with interest in this sale to read.  Everything in the sale came from his collection and is being sold without reserve.  Nothing will be passed or ‘bought in’.  Some historically unique items from the collection will be donated along with a final monetary donation in David Cheney's name to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Directions: From the traffic lights at the intersection of routes 202 and 101 in Peterborough, NH, proceed west on 202 for 1 mile to the old mill complex on the left. Signs will be posted.

Highlights from the sale.  Not a complete list.  The full catalog and Images will be available here soon.

Documents and Miscellaneous Paper:  Period transcripts from the Nuremberg trials including Albert Speer’s opening statement with his hand written notes.  Numerous SS promotion/enlistment and other documents signed by Himmler, Pohl, one signed by Hitler and others.   Hitler Youth ID books, awards and documents.  SS personnel records.  Identity papers for Germans and Jews.  SS leader’s questionnaire.  7 KRIPO awards.  KRIPO arrest documents.  Approximately 25 “Fragebogen” (Questionnaires for Jewish persons in the medical field).  Foreign labor registration cards and ID books.  Prisoner transport documents.  Documents related to the personal property tax the Nazi’s imposed on the Jewish population.  Notifications of resettlement.  Death Notices.  Gestapo files for deceased Jewish citizens who were due insurance.  Polish resistance document.  German election ballots and pre war election related items (Hindenburg).  German educational awards and Soldbuch(s) with accompanying photographs and documents.

Letters:  Approximately 45 letters written from various concentration camps including Buchenwald, Dachau, Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen and others.  Letters to an American family with a son in the US Army and a nephew in the German Army, both of whom ended up in POW camps.  Letters from concentration camp doctors asking for supplies.  Handwritten letter by Reinhard Heydrich.  5 letters dealing with Dr. Franz Riedweg (one signed by Himmler).  2 letters signed by Karl Wolff.  3 letters signed by Eicke (2 of them addressed to Himmler).  Letter from Dr Karl Jung to Himmler.  2 letters from Albert Speer to David Cheney from the mid to late 1970’s.  Numerous others.

Propaganda: Highly offensive examples from the “Der Ewige Jude” (The Eternal Jew) book and exhibition.  Anti-Semitic leaflets and flyers including “When You See This….”.  Very interesting collection of leaflets dropped over Germans by US and Allies and also examples air dropped BY Germans over  US and Allies many of which attempt to hurt respective moral. 

Posters:  Recruiting poster for the SS Wallonie Division.  Large 1934 Nazi Labor Day poster.  SS Recruitment Posters.  Numerous posters and broadsides warning against attacks on German Officers and Reprisals for attacks on German Officers.  Numerous broadsides (most in Polish) with execution notices. Many others.

Miscellaneous:   Original pen and ink panel by the cartoonist “Fips” from “Der Sturmer”.  Letter Head from important branches within the Reich including Hitler, Goring and Goebbels (includes calling cards and official invitations etc).  French resistance arm bands.  Lot of 101^st Airborne/506^th PIR related items.  German stamp cancel plate  (engraved curved steel with insert for date).  Lot of Ghetto and camp currency.  German daggers (including an SS model 1933 made by Robert Klaas).  German Bayonets.  Collection of German radios (2 Bakelite).  German typewriter with SS runes. US army phonograph.  German aircraft blueprints.  Vintage artillery shell and ammunition.  Rare WW1 Aerial bomb.  2 German Potato Masher grenades (one with fragmentation sleeve).  Nazi party rug.  Jewish luggage seals.  23 records with “Berghof” stickers from Hitler’s home in Berchtesgarden.  Other German and US records.  US and German war 16mm films.  Large lot of US Home Front items.  Stamps.  Postcards.  Maps.  Wartime magazines.  

War and Pre War Toys: Marklin No. 1101 camouflage armored car.  Tippco Anti Aircraft truck.  2 period cannons (one by Tippco).  Pre war painted lead soldiers.  Approximately 35 Lineol and Elastolin toy soldiers.

Newspapers:  14 Issues of “Der Sturmer” in excellent to mint condition with other associated items.  From the Channel Islands, 24 issues of “The Star” and issues of “The Guernsey Evening Press”.  38 Issues of “Der Angriff.  75 Issues of “Stars and Stripes” (1944 to 1945).  Numerous other publications.

Photographs & Autographs:  2 signed photographs of Goebbels, 2 signed photographs of Hitler, signed photograph of Himmler, 1 of Baldur Von Schirach and 1 of Karl Hermann Frank.  Numerous other photographs taken by German and US Soldiers documenting Jewish ghettos, concentration camps and other war related.

Books: Carved Oak “SS” Presentation Box housing an inscribed copy of “Mein Kamph”.  Anniversary editions of Mein Kamph including “SS” inscribed and autographed presentation gift.  “Das Dritte Reich”, 5 volumes published October 1937.  “Orden und Ehrenzeichen  Im Dritten Reich”, 1939.  “Der Ewige Jude” 1937.  “Organisationplan der NSDAP” (one from 1936 and another 1945).  Large Library of U.S. and German reference books relating to the Third Reich and its Uniforms, Head Gear, Weapons, History and accoutrements as well as pre war and war era German Propaganda in the form of books.   Third Reich Photo and Stereo Card Books, etc. etc.

Booklets:  At least 100 including Military recruiting booklets for the Germans and US. German military insignia catalogs. Hitler Youth. Weapons catalogs (German and US).

German Insignia, Badges, Awards, Medals:   Rare Grand Cross, Order of the German Eagle Award.  SA Gorget with chain and a Field Police Gorget.  Close combat clasps. Cuff titles including a “1944 METZ”.   Armbands (including police and other organizations).   Sleevebands.  German Insignia.  Medals.  Badges. Awards.  Pins.

Clothing and Headgear:  A number of hats, helmets and Kepi’s.  German belt buckles.  US and German uniforms (more information in catalog online).