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Adolf Eichmann Typed Letter Signed, Berlin, 7 May 1940 - A two-page typed personal letter on Adolf Eichmann's private letterhead (”Adolf Eichmann / Berlin W 62 / Kurfürstenstr. 116”), dated ”Berlin, den 7. Mai 1940,” addressed to ”SS-Untersturmführer Dr. Schmidt, Wien” with the salutation ”Lieber Kamerad Schmidt!” The content apologizes for missing a telephone call, discusses a delay in a Protectorate (Bohemia-Moravia) matter attributed to SS-Oberführer Dr. Stahlecker's trip to Oslo, and closes with personal news of his family in Prague, his wife's throat operation, and hopes to meet in Vienna after Pentecost for a ”gemeinsamen Dämmerschoppen.” The letter closes ”Heil Hitler! Ihr ergeb.” and is signed in black ink ”A. Eichmann.” The paper shows a central fold.By May 1940, Adolf Eichmann headed the Reich Security Main Office's section for Jewish affairs and emigration, having already organized forced deportations from Vienna and Prague following the Anschluss and the occupation of Bohemia-Moravia. The letter's reference to Franz Walter Stahlecker, then head of the Sicherheitspolizei/SD in the Protectorate before his later command of Einsatzgruppe A in the Baltic states, situates the correspondence within the administrative apparatus coordinating persecution policy across occupied Central Europe in the period preceding the war's escalation into full-scale genocide. Dr. Schmidt, addressed as ”Kamerad, ” reflects the network of SS officials in Vienna involved in the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung, the emigration office Eichmann had established there in 1938. The casual personal tone alongside official business illustrates the routine, bureaucratic character of the correspondence generated by mid-level SS officials administering the machinery of dispossession and deportation.