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Heinrich Himmler Signed Letter - Typed letter on official 'Der Reichsführer-–SS' letterhead, dated at the Führer-Hauptquartier, 25 April 1942, addressed 'Lieber Krüger!' The content concerns SS-Standartenführer Hammer's conduct as land administrator (Bodenamt) in the Warthegau, criticizing his diligence and excessive hunting trips, and restricting him to two hunting days/evenings per month for June through December. Closes with typed 'Heil Hitler!' and is boldly signed in ink 'H. Himmler' above a crossed-out handwritten word. text remains fully legible throughout.Heinrich Himmler served as Reichsführer-SS and Chief of German Police, overseeing the SS apparatus responsible for racial policy, security, and administration across occupied territories, including the Warthegau (Reichsgau Wartheland), a region of annexed western Poland subject to intensive Germanisation and resettlement programs. The recipient, likely SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, held senior SS and police leadership roles in occupied Poland during this period. The letter's subject matter—an SS Bodenamt (land office) official's conduct and use of leisure time amid wartime administrative duties—reflects the routine bureaucratic oversight Himmler exercised personally over SS personnel matters, even amid the broader machinery of occupation policy being implemented in the annexed eastern territories at this time.