A very comprehensive archive on Roland Hans Krug von Nidd.

Besides dozens of career related documents there is:

1. Formal award document to the War Merit Cross 1st Class, 1939, awarded on January 20, 1944. Facsimile signature Hitler and ink signature Meissner with embossed seal.
2. Promotion to Gesandter on January 19, 1943. Ink signature Adolf Hitler and v.Ribbentrop with embossed seal and in official folder.
3. Promotion to Generalkonsul on May 9, 1940. Facsimile signature Hitler and ink signature v.Ribbentrop with embossed seal and in official folder.
4. His Wehrpass

A very interesting archive on one of the characters of that time with heavy involvement on the deportation of jews from France. 

Rare signature of Adolf Hitler!

Roland Hans Krug von Nidda (born August 20, 1895, in Dresden ; † May 4, 1968, in Munich ) was a German officer, lawyer, diplomat and journalist. From 1933 on he was a correspondent for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in Paris and from 1941 to 1943 he was head of the branch of the German Embassy in Vichy. He worked as a writer and translator after the war.

He comes from the Hessian noble family Krug von Nidda and was the son of the captain and wing adjutant of the last Saxon king Hans Krug von Nidda . His father rose to the rank of cavalry general during the First World War .

Krug von Nidda attended the humanistic Thomasschule in Leipzig until graduation from high school in 1914. He then began studying law at the University of Leipzig.

In 1913 he became a lieutenant. During the First World War he served as an orderly officer on the staff of the 192nd Infantry Division (8th Royal Saxon), was promoted to first lieutenant and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of St. Henry and the Knight's Cross 2nd Class of the Albrecht Order with Swords.

Krug von Nidda completed his law studies in 1920 after the armistice and his demobilization and became a Dr. jur.. He joined the Foreign Service on August 11, 1920, and from 1922 was employed by Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff in Koblenz as “Representative of the Foreign Office to the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Rhenish Territories”. He also worked at the German Embassy in Belgrade. He left the civil service in 1924. Until 1931 he was co-owner of the Gersdorf manor near Görlitz, which had been in the family since 1810.

From 1933 he was a correspondent for the conservative Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (DAZ) in Paris and from 1935 chairman of the German Journalists' Association. He also worked in Hamburg, London, Moscow, Vienna and Zurich. On May 1, 1933 he joined the NSDAP. Since March 13, 1933 he was a member of the SA, where he was appointed Sturmbannführer in 1942 and Obersturmbannführer in 1944. Krug von Nidda was a member of the German Men's Club. On January 30, 1944, he received the War Merit Cross, First Class, for his services to National Socialism.

At the beginning of 1940 he returned to the foreign service and became consul general in 1943, envoy (Gesandter) in 1943, and in November 1941 head of the branch of the German embassy to the Vichy government in Vichy. From 1942 onwards, Jews were deported from France to the Auschwitz concentration camp, in which the Vichy government and the German embassy under Otto Abetz worked together. Krug von Nidda reported at the beginning of 1942 that after discussions with François Darlan he had the impression that the French government would be happy if it could get rid of the Jews in some way, and suggested to the Jewish commissioner in the Paris embassy Carltheo Zeitschel and The SS leader Theodor Dannecker said that the Vichy government could be suggested to deport 1,000 to 5,000 Jews per month. Krug von Nidda was transferred to Berlin in 1943 by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, where he was chairman of the “Flemish-Walloon Committee” of the Foreign Office in a political subdivision. He established contacts with the International Red Cross in Geneva to alleviate the conditions of imprisonment for political prisoners in France and to secure their liberation.

From September 1945 to December 12, 1947, Krug von Nidda was in French custody. He then lived as a freelance writer (pseudonym Ray Castres) and translator from French, Dutch and English. His publication of the Anastasia Romanova memoirs attracted worldwide interest in the 1950s and was translated into many languages. However, the real Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanova had already been murdered in 1918. The largely fictional memoirs were by Anna Anderson, who until her death claimed to be the youngest daughter of the Tsar, Anastasia.

 (Based on the entries in wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Krug_von_Nidda)