ORIGINAL 1941 DOCUMENT, SIGNED BY HEAD OF SS-TK DIV. THEODOR EICKE

Very interesting large size (DIN A4 – roughly 8 x 11 inches) document, dated 8 June 1941, signed by the commandant of the SS-Totenkopf Division SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant Theodor Eicke and sent to SS-Gruppenführer Hans Jüttner, Chief of Staff of the SS Command Main Office in Berlin. Eicke complaints about the men who were assigned to the leadership of his TK Division. Before he took command of the SS-Totenkopf Division he was in charge of inspection of all concentration camps and Eicke writes that he knows these men from Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald. He states that he questions their reliability and that they will not be useful to serve on the front lines in his division and should instead remain in their current assignments (in the concentration camps). It has been discussed a lot among historians if the SS-Totenkopf Division had men from concentration camps in their ranks. This document is unquestionably proof of that.