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KARL VON EBERSTEIN AND RUDOLF DEMME

KARL VON EBERSTEIN (1894 - 1979) Early member of the Nazi party, the SA, the SS, Reichstag delegate, an HSSPF and SS-Oberabschnitt Fuhrer, responsible for introducing Himmler and Heydrich, and as police president of Munich, he relayed Hitler's orders on Kristallnacht. Later denied all wrongdoing at Nuremberg. Good association D.S., 2pp. 4to., Dresden, July 15, 1935, his approval of the official evaluation of SS-Untersturmfuhrer and Knight's Cross recipient Max Schafer, signed beneath his holograph approval at the conclusion. The document is also signed by RUDOLF DEMME (1894-1975), German Panzer General and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. File holes, else very good. MAX SCHAFER (1907-1987) was a Standartenfuhrer (Colonel) in the Waffen-SS who later became the commander of all pioneers in the III SS Panzer Corps, serving with distinction at Leningrad and Oranienbaum. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.