SS DIV. WIKING LOT SIGNED BY JOSEPH MENGELE + SS GENERAL STEINER

Offered for sale is a very rare original 1942

SS PANZER DIVISION WIKING DOCUMENTS LOT OF A WAFFEN-SS ROTTENFÜHRER TRIEBEL,

SIGNED BY SOON TO BE AUSCHWITZ’ ‘ANGEL OF DEATH‘ (TODESENGEL)

SS-OBERSTURMFÜHRER DR. JOSEPH MENGELE

AND

SS-OBERGRUPPENFÜHRER AND GENERALLEUTNANT DER WAFFEN-SS FELIX STEINER

This unique and very interesting documents lot from 1942 consists of:

• one medical evaluation of SS Rottenführer Bernhard Triebel from the 3./SS-Pionierbattalion 5 that is signed by Josef Mengele who at the time held the rank of SS-Obersturmführer and who was the Truppenarzt or head physician of SS Panzer Division Wiking. This is the only time that we have seen a document signed by Mengele as ‘Truppenarzt’, making this extremely rare signature even more rare than his signature on an Auschwitz concentration camp document. The document is dated 29 March 1942 and shortly later Mengele was seriously injured at the eastern front, declared unfit for active service in mid-1942 and transferred to the headquarters of the RSHA in Berlin. In April of 1943 he then transferred to Auschwitz.
• one award document for SS Rottenführer Bernhard Triebel dated 7 July 1942 when Triebel was awarded the Sturmabzeichen or Assault Badge. This document is signed by SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant der Waffen SS Felix Steiner.
• one marching order (Marschbefehl) for Triebel dated 10 September 1943 which transferred him to the Ersatztruppe in Dresden, signed by a SS-Untersturmführer Wolfgang Lukas (KIA in September 1943).
• one Arbeitsbuch (Work Record Book) belonging to Triebel’s wife

SS-Hauptsturmführer Dr. Joseph Mengele will always be remembered for his actions at the medical research facilities of Auschwitz concentration camp. Mengele often inspected and selected new arrivals at Auschwitz, determining who was fit for work and who was to be killed immediately. He always searched for twins and people with abnormities such as dwarfs for his experiments on humans. Mengele’s experiments included attempts to change eye color by injecting chemicals into children’s eyes, various amputations of limbs, and other surgeries but his favorite were experiments on twin children. After an experiment was over, the twins were usually killed and their bodies dissected. In 1940, Mengele was ordered to work in the SS RSHA, Abt. Sip. II in Berlin by the head of the Sanitäts-Inspektion der Waffen-SS, SS Oberführer Karl Genzken. Mengele also worked at or for the ‘Kaiser Wilhelm Institut fuer Anthropologie und menschliche Erblehre’. In April of 1943 he was promoted to SS Captain and soon after he was transferred to Auschwitz concentration camp. Mengele and other members of the medical staff of the camp were responsible for ‘selections’ of prisoners, determining who would be kept alive for slave labor, who would get killed immediately and who would be suitable for horrible experiments. Mengele, with his mentor Otmar von Verschuer, performed lethal and agonizing yet under the Nazis legitimate experiments using twins as test subjects, preferably using Jewish and Gypsy children for tests. Mengele sent all the results of his experiments to Dr. von Verschuer at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and it took two trucks to carry all his ‘findings’. Verschuer destroyed them and so the full extent of what Mengele did at Auschwitz will never be known.

Here is the Wikipedia page of Joseph Mengele: Josef Mengele – Wikipedia

and the Wikipedia page of Felix Steiner: Felix Steiner – Wikipedia

This group ships from one of our affiliates in Germany. It comes from a private collection and has never been offered for sale before. It was purchased directly out of a German archive. The seller gives a full money back guarantee for the authenticity of the document and signature. Includes shipping worldwide.