WAFFEN SS TOTENKOPF : 20 REICHSMARK NOTE SWASTIKA (08/14/2007)

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WAFFEN SS TOTENKOPF : 20 REICHSMARK NOTE SWASTIKA

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Sold Date: 08/14/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Militaria & Weapons

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NAZI GERMANY 20 REICHSMARK NOTE WITH SWASTIKA !

STAMPED BY THE WAFFEN SS TOTENKOPF DIVISION !

RARE!!

Hello, up for auction is a VERY RARE 20 Reichsmark note which was stamped by the Waffen - SS Totenkopf. The note has two stamps on it which say "Waffen - SS SS - Pz. Gren. Rgt. Theodore Eiche" and the other says "SS". Take a look at the scan and make your own decision. As always, i have done some research in old books and on the internet. is a little information about this Totenkopf - SS squad.

"The success of the Totenkopf's sister formations the SS-Infanterie-Regiment Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and the three Standarten of the SS- Verfügungstruppe led to Hitler approving Himmler 's recommendation for the creation of three Waffen SS -divisions in October 1939 .

Eicke's Totenkopf units were to form SS-Division Totenkopf and Eicke was given command.

Eicke's career now deviated from Concentration Camps and he was not involved with the camp service after 1940. His replacement as Inspector of Concentration Camps was Richard Glücks who answered to Oswald Pohl in the SS Office of Economics and Administration.

During the course of the war, Eicke and his division distinguished themselves by an unmatched brutality and several war crimes , including the murder of British POWs in Le Paradis in 1940 , the murder of Soviet officers and the plundering and pillaging of several Soviet villages.

The Totenkopf , continued to show an unmatched fanaticism and stubbornness; both during the advance in 1941 as well as the summer offensive in 1942 , the conquest of Kharkov , the so-called Demyansk Pocket and the defending of Warsaw and Budapest in early 1945 .

Theodor Eicke himself was killed on February 26 , 1943 ; shortly after being promoted to SS-Obergruppenführer (equivalent to full general ). While performing a battlefield reconnaissance during the opening stages of the Third Battle of Kharkov , his Fi-196 Storch was shot down by Soviet troops near Oryol . His division launched a ferocious attack to secure the crash site and recover their commander's body. Eicke was portrayed in the Axis press as a hero, and soon after his death one of the Totenkopf's Infantry regiments received the honorific cuff-title Theodor Eicke ."

This note is definately original. I am not sure when it was stamped, however; could be post-war. Either way, this is a great WWII historical item! A really excellent collectible that will surely be worth a lot in the future. This note was printed in 1929, but was legal tender and was used in Nazi Germany until 1945. This is the actual banknote you will recieve, please see the scan for condition.

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