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KVK Award papers for KVK 1st class dated 1944, SS Obergruppenfuhrer Pohl. Title page of the proposal list for the awarding of the KVK I. class without swords, dated 20.4.1944. signed Oswald Pohl “Chief of the SS-Wirtschaftsverwaltungshauptamt” and with his hand written. Note “Award has already been approved by the RFSS”. Punched, center fold, RARE

Oswald Ludwig Pohl (30 June 1892 – 7 June 1951) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. As the head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office and the head administrator of the Nazi concentration camps, he was a key figure in the Final Solution, the extermination of Jews. After the war he went into hiding. Pohl was apprehended in 1946. He stood trial in 1947, was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity, repeatedly appealed his case, and was executed by hanging in 1951