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28th German Military & Propaganda auction
Lot 852:
Honorary Prize Goblet For Club Throwing Contest Winner – It Belonged to 36. SS Standarte Member. The goblet is engraved as follows "Honorary prize of the office for civil servants for the winner of the club throwing sports festival of the 36th SS Standarte 30.08.1936". This item isn’t made from silver. Nice patina. The 36 SS Standarte, initially the most expensive SS police unit to maintain, founded/formed in April 1932, began to pay off quickly from September 1, 1939, under the command of SS-Sturmannführer Kurt Eimann, as the SS Einsatzkommando 16 SS-Wachsturmbann "Eimann" Operational Group, began to take an active part in the deportation and pacification of the Polish population in Pomerania, in the so-called Intelligenzaktion. They committed many murders, rapes and robberies on the civilian population of the entire Pomerania. Among other things, they murdered the defenders of the Polish Post Office in Gdansk, committed a murder in the forest, in Pialnica, where by 1940, they had shot 20,000 people. In addition, the staff supervised the newly established "Special Camp Stutthof" and was mainly used for "special police duties" in the new "Reichsgau Gdansk-West Prussia", i.e. for the persecution and internment of Polish Jews.On September 30, 1939, transformed into SS-Totenkopfverbandes (SS-TV) KL Stuthoff, which were SS units responsible for protecting concentration camps. In this role, they were the central executive institution of the NSDAP dealing with the suppression and elimination of political opponents, exploitation through forced labor and medical experiments on humans, and the internment of prisoners of war.After the attack on the USSR in 1941, they became part of the Einsatzgruppe, which committed some of the greatest crimes in human history, murdering over 100,000 people. Belarusians, Russians, Poles, Jews, Lithuanians, Latvians, and all those they deemed opponents of the Third Reich.In 1944, they committed the Wola massacre, murdering around 50,000 civilians during the Warsaw Uprising. Mainly women, the elderly, and children. Commander Kurt Eimann escaped captivity twice, first from Soviet captivity, then from American captivity, finally surrendering to the British. He spent only two years in prison for his war crimes. All items for this auction will be shipping from Europe. Shipping cost $20 it doesn’t matter how many items you win.
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