On this date, February 26, 1943, one of Hitler’s most evil henchmen, Theodor Eicke was killed in action.
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Theodor Eicke |
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Insignia of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf |
Theodor Eicke (17 October 1892 – 26 February 1943) was an SS-Obergruppenführer (German General), commander of the SS-Division (mot) Totenkopfof the Waffen-SS and one of the key figures in the establishment of concentration camps in Nazi Germany. His Nazi Party number was 114,901 and his SS number was 2,921. Together with SS-Obersturmbannführer Michael Lippert, Eicke executed SA Chief Ernst Röhm following the Night of the Long Knives purge.
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Natural born killers (as described by Taigman), the German SS-men Paul Bredow, Willi Mentz, Max Möller, and Josef Hirtreiter who served at Treblinka extermination camp during the Operation Reinhard in occupied Poland, four Nazi German war criminals and Holocaust perpetrators posing for a group photo at the Treblinka zoo. |