Here is a rare seating plan with matching menu and invite for an official state dinner hosted in Berlin on May 21 1939 – just months before Germany’s invasion of Poland, and the start of WW2. It was held in honor of Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Graf Ciano di Cortellazo.
This was clearly an occasion of high importance, as many key players of the Third Reich are present, including Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Sepp Dietrich, Heinrich Himmler and Max Wünsche.
$1,600
Very nice example of a rare seating plan for a formal dinner with der Führer on 1 June 1939. Alongside the usual Party bigwigs – including Göring, Himmler, Goebbels, Ribbentrop and Keitel – is none other than SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. Nicknamed the Butcher of Prague, Heydrich would be assassinated almost three years to the day later, on 27 May 1942 by British-trained Czech commandoes – as part of Operation Anthropoid.
$1,300
