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RARE, autographed print of SA GRUPPENFUHRER Karl Ernst, signed black ink ERNST, on glossy book print 1933, clean bold signature, and quite rare, photo is 6×7 1/2, overall great condition
Karl Ernst (1 September 1904, Berlin – 30 June 1934, Berlin) was an SA- Gruppenführer who, in early 1933, was the SA leader in Berlin. Before joining the Nazi Party he had been a hotel bellboy and a bouncer at a gay nightclub
Ernst was arrested in Bremerhaven together with his wife and his friend Martin Kirschbaum as he was about to get aboard a cruiser in order to travel to Madeira where he planned to spend his honeymoon. Later on he was handed over to an SS-commando unit led by Kurt Gildisch, flown back to Berlin and taken to the barracks of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, where he was shot by a firing squad in the early evening of June 30/1934 According to the official death list drawn up for internal-administrative use by the Gestapo he was one of fourteen people shot on the grounds of the Leibstandarte
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