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JURGEN STROOP/RARE Good content / on official letterhead, 1p. Karlsbad, Mar. 27, 1939 to ‘SS-Oberfuhrer Kelz’ in the SS Personnel Office in Berlin. Stroop is recruiting for the SS in the Sudetenland. He writes, in part: ‘…Thank you for your letter, which concerns my membership in the Lippe state government. Based on this information, I have now written to the state government to confirm how long I have been in the civil service and how many years of pension…I have achieved through my work. When I have this certificate, I will inform the state government that I am remaining a leader and am temporarily retiring. We have already spent two days in the area in Bohemia that was assigned to me for recruitment. Unfortunately, we have had almost no success, as this area is purely Czech. I will be going there again for another 1 or 2 days today to try to set up a troop or a platoon in one place or another…’ Slightly scorched at left margin (FROM FIRE) otherwise is very good.
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Jürgen Stroop (born Josef Stroop, 26 September 1895 – 6 March 1952) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and Greece from 1942-1943 (in Poland) and 1943-1944 (in Greece) He was a SS-General (Brigadefuhrer Und Gruppenfuhrer) from 1942-1945 . He led the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and wrote the Stroop Report, a twelve-page account of the operation annexed with many original documents and pictures. Following the defeat of Germany, Stroop was prosecuted during the Dachau Trials and convicted of murdering nine U.S. prisoners of war. After his extradition to Poland, Stroop was tried, convicted, and executed for crimes against humanity