May 1945 Promotion Orders

[John P. Moore]

This unusual document from 2 May 1945 announces a number of promotions to SS-Untersturmführer. Documents with late April 1945 promotions are seldom seen. I received this document from an engineer officer from the Totenkopf division who is listed later in this Tagesbefehl. This officer had served for several years in the T-Div. before attending officer school and was at first assigned to the Das Reich division. He wanted to return to his old division and swapped assignments with another officer ordered to the Totenkopf. That officer spent many years regretting his decision while a POW in Russia!

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[John P. Moore]

If anyone else has similar April-May 1945 promotion documents, please post them here.

John

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