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                <opener><fw place="top" type="letterhead"><rs ref="#tillich_person_id__115" type="person">H. W. Baerensprung</rs>
                        <lb/>243 Riverside Dr. <lb/><rs ref="#tillich_place_id__319" type="place">New York</rs> 25, <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__865" type="place">N.
                            Y.</rs></fw><dateline><date when="1946-05-22">May 22nd,
                        1946</date></dateline><salute>Dear <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1928" type="person">Mr. Tillich</rs>:</salute></opener>
                <p>Not so long ago I told you that I had received three requests to return to <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__122" type="place">Germany</rs> in order to
                    participate in the reconstruction of <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__122" type="place">Germany</rs>.</p>
                <p>The requests to return came from <lb/>a) <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__3492" type="person">Mr. Hans Venedey</rs>, Minister of the Interior of Greater
                        <sic>Hesse</sic>, <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__471" type="place">Wiesbaden</rs>. (encl. A) <lb/>b) <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__3493" type="person">Mr. Hans Menzel</rs>, President of the Bavarian Labor Office,
                        <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__306" type="place">Munich</rs>. (encl. B) <lb/>c)
                        <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__3494" type="person">Mr. Amelunxen</rs>,
                        <q>Oberpräsident</q> of Westphalia, <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__307" type="place">Münster i. W.</rs> (encl. C) </p>
                <p>The enclosures which I attach are copies of the written requests; they are
                    self-explanatory. Furthermore I am sending you my curriculum vitae (encl. D) and
                    also a note on my friend <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__3495" type="person">Erich
                        Lewinski</rs> who likewise wishes to return to <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__122" type="place">Germany</rs>. I am sending you
                    this material because I would like you to advise me on how to proceed to
                    expedite our return. So far, I have not heard from any U. S. authority in <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__554" type="place">Washington, D. C.</rs> except a
                    note from the State Department dated <date when="1946-02-28">February 28th,
                        1946</date> that my application for permission to depart from the <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__684" type="place">USA</rs> had been received and had
                    been assigned Application Nr. 23o84.<!-- <q>o</q> über <q>)</q> --> The State
                    Department has complete files about me since from 1943 – 1945 I worked for the
                    U. S. Government.</p>
                <p>I am at complete loss why I am not permitted to return; all the more since I
                    never acquired any other nationality. I entered the <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__684" type="place">USA</rs> on a visitor's visa
                    when I came from <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__738" type="place">China</rs> in
                    1940, and I always made it clear to the immigration authorities here that I had
                    the intention to return to <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__122" type="place">Germany</rs> as soon as <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__910" type="person">Hitler</rs> was defeated.</p>
                <p>What would you suggest for me to do? Do you know anybody in <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__554" type="place">Washington</rs> to whom I could
                    present my case with some hope of success?</p>
                <closer><salute>With kind personal regards,</salute><signed>Yours, <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__115" type="person">H. W.
                        Baerensprung</rs></signed></closer>
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                     <p>Adolf Hitler (20. April 1889, Braunau am Inn – 30. April 1945, Berlin) war Vorsitzender der NSDAP, seit 1933 Reichskanzler und ab 1934 als „Führer“ diktatorischer Staats- und Regierungschef des Deutschen Reiches. Er entfesselte 1939 mit dem Überfall auf Polen den Zweiten Weltkrieg, der über 70 Millionen Menschen das Leben kostete, und trug die Hauptverantwortung für den Holocaust an den europäischen Juden. Als oberster Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht führte er eine totalitäre Herrschaft, die Terror, Propaganda und aggressive Expansion vereinte und große Teile Europas verwüstete. Beim Zusammenbruch des „Dritten Reiches“ beging Hitler am 30. April 1945 in Berlin Suizid; eine Grabstätte gibt es nicht.</p>
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