SS TOTENKOPF EICKE SIGNED DOCUMENT

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RARE SIGNED DOCUMENT SIGNED BY THEODORE EICKE AND LAMMERDING, VERY NICE
Application for the awarding of the general Sturmabzeichen for an SS-Sturmann of the SS-Totenkopf-Pionier-Bataillon.

Typewritten, issued 28.6.1940, OU SS-Sturmbannführer u. Btls.Kdr. HB Lammerding (RK) and OU SS-Gruppenführer u. Div.Kdr. Theodor Eicke (RK, EL).
Btls.Kdr. H.B. Lammerding, was an SS functionary and war criminal during the Nazi era. During World War II, he commanded the SS Division Das Reich that perpetrated the Tulle and the Oradour-sur-Glane massacres in occupied France. After the war, Lammerding was convicted in absentia for having ordered the murder of approximately 750 French civilians.