My first question would be why would somebody fake a card for a guy who is not that well known. He was killed in late 1943 as part of the dirlewanger brigade and is mentioned in the book "the cruel hunters " twice which equals maybe a paragraph.
Would seem to me there would not be a big market in reproducing his card versus some much more well known SS figure.
It looks good to me, from what the photos show. I have a similar card from Himmler, but of better paper card stock. The paper on This one looks on the rough side. Is it worth $100? I guess it's a matter of what a person collects. To a collector of Nazi paper and documents, I would imagine it would be of decent interest.
William
"Much that once was, is lost. For none now live who remember it."
Regalia of what might otherwise be middling or low ranked Allgemeine SS persons is faked in Germany. We have had cases of it here before.
That the man was in the Dirlewanger Brigade accords this individual some kind of perverse interest that also has a customer bases in my experience.
The names of these Allgemeine SS persons are widely circulated in Germany. There is a two volume encyclopaedia of Allgemeine SS leaders as well as the rank lists as a basis.
What I write is an impression, as I have some experience in SS things, or I aspire to.
Authentic cartes de visite of the era are pretty distinctive in terms of engraving, quality of paper and overall craftsmanship.
I may be in error, but I am asked on an hourly basis to comment.
Nor do the SS runics look properly executed to me.
This reminds me of a slip of paper I found in a document group I picked up recently following a 9 year old boy in the HJ, up to his time in the Wehrmacht towards the end of the war. Folded up inside one of his diaries is this:
Large Document Group for one German boy growing up to become a soldier: HJ, Wehrmacht, Russian POW
I didn't really pay it much attention since I wasn't sure what it was other than something like a business card. Not sure why he would have had it either, because nothing else in the group stands out to me as SS related. The circled letters really are curious though. Maybe just a friend of his, who knows.
11B, most likely what room to go to for the doctors tests, or where to go on the first day.
"" Here you go young lad, i have placed a red circle around the number so you know what office to ask direction for on monday. Good luck. ""
That's an astute possibility. I bet you're right.
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