Rare Appreciation Letter Sent by von Eberstein to Race and Settlement Office Hildebrandt - 1942. With headletter of the High Poice and SS office. Signed by von Eberstein.Richard Hermann Hildebrandt (13 March 1897 – 10 March 1951) was a German Nazi politician and SS-Obergruppenführer. During the Second World War, he served as a Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) in Nazi-occupied Poland, the Soviet Union and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He was the last head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office in SS headquarters, charged with enforcing Germanization policies. After the war, Hildebrandt was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity by an American military court and sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was subsequently extradited to Poland to stand trial for separate charges, sentenced to death, and executed.Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Eberstein (14 January 1894 – 10 February 1979) was a member of the German nobility, early member of the Nazi Party, the SA, and the SS (introducing Reinhard Heydrich to Heinrich Himmler in July 1931). He was elected to the Reichstag and held the position of the chief of the Munich Police during the Nazi era. Eberstein was a witness at the Nuremberg Trials.