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
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Theodor Eicke (17 October 1892 – 26 February 1943) was an
SS-Obergruppenführer (German
General), commander of the SS-Division (mot) Totenkopf of 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.
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