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SS-OBERSTURMBANNFUHER HEINZ MACHER IS RECOMMENDED FOR THE OAK LEAVES BY HAUSSER AND LAMMERDING

HEINZ MACHER (1919–2001) Waffen-SS officer and Nazi official, awarded the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves, served as the second personal assistant to Heinrich Himmler. Important typed D.S., 3pp. large 4to., [n.p.], July 21, 1944 in which regiment commander SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer HEINZ MACHER is recommended for the award of Oak Leaves to the Knights Cross, already awarded to him on April 12, 1943. This recommendation is signed on the first page by HEINZ LAMMERDING (1905-1971), commander of the SS Division Das Reich, later convicted for ordering the 1944 massacres at Tulle and Oradour-sur-Glane. The cover page is also endorsed "Agreed!" by PAUL HAUSSER (1880-1972), Major General of the Waffen-SS who also headed the Das Reich and led four divisions at Kursk. This recommendation, or "voschlag", documents events from July 9-17, 1944 in Normandy. In part: "...The 16th Pioneers...part of the Kampfgruppe Wisliceny...the enemy attacked 64 times...and crossed the main fighting time 37 times and 37 times were they repulsed..." This passage refers to the "Battle of the Hedgerows", the break-out of the American tank forces from hedgerow country in Normandy where the constant battles from farm to farm had stymied the Allied efforts to advance. Staple holes at top, else very good.

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