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RARE THIRD REICH SIGNATURE OF KARL ERNST
S.A.-Gruppenfuhrer, 4 1/4 x 12 in., [Berlin, 1934], reading in part: ‘…No, nothing works…we are released from the work discipline…’ Boldly signed at bottom. ERNST VG++

Karl Ernst (1 September 1904 – 30 June 1934) was an SA-Gruppenführer who, from March 1933, was the SA commander in Berlin. Prior to joining the Nazi Party, he had been a hotel bellhop and a bouncer at gay nightclubs. He was one of the chief participants in the extrajudicial execution of Albrecht Höhler. Ernst was himself extrajudicially executed in the Night of the Long Knives.