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Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer (HSSPF) Dr. Eberhard Schöngarth – Commander SiPo and SD in Den Haag – Personalnachweis.
This is the personal filled in Personalnachweis from Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer (HSSPF) Dr. Eberhard Schöngarth – Commander SiPo and SD in Den Haag. After Hans Albin Rauter was wounded, Schongarth became the HSSPF in the Netherlands.
He asa also one of the peopel present at the Wannsee conference.
During the German attack on Poland he was promoted to SS Obersturmbannführer. He later served as a Senior Inspector for the Reich Security Main Office in Dresden.
In January 1941 he was sent to Kraków, occupied Poland, as senior commander of the SiPo and SD (BdS). During the time Schöngarth was stationed in Kraków, he led a temporary Einsatzgruppe unit, Einsatzgruppe z.b.V.. In June 1941, Schöngarth, on the orders of the RSHA, deployed Wolfgang Birkner to the Bialystok District to suppress resistance. Schöngarth was responsible for the murders of approximately 10,000 Polish Jews between July and September 1941 and the massacre of Lwów professors and their families behind the frontlines of Operation Barbarossa in the Soviet Union. Schöngarth attended the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942, along with Dr. Rudolf Lange (Einsatzgruppe A), who had also participated in the Holocaust. From early July 1944 until the end of war he was the head of the BdS in the Netherlands. After the ambushing of SS General Hanns Albin Rauter on 6 March 1945, Schongarth ordered mass executions in reprisal. A total of 263 people were executed, including 117 political prisoners at the location of the attack, 50 prisoners in Kamp Amersfoort, and 40 prisoners each in the Hague and Rotterdam.
Schöngarth was executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at Hamelin Prison on 16 May 1946.
More on him here: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Eberhard_Sch%C3%B6ngarth
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Personal filled in and signed (autographed).
See also the included book picture.
Extremely rare original documents from SS Brigadeführer Schöngarth.
