SS DOCUMENT GROUPING OF HANS KEMPIN
HANS KEMPIN (1913 - 1992) Waffen-SS combat and training officer who served in the SS-Standarte Deutschland, SS-Regiment Der Führer and later commanded the 547. Volksgrenadier-Division, 38. SS-Grenadierdivision Nibelungen, 32.SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division 30.Januar, and the Waffen-SS Unterführerschule in Laibach Important grouping of five documents pertaining to Kempin's career in the SS, includes: HEINRICH HIMMLER, D.S. on "Der Reichsfuhrer-SS" letterhead, 1p. 4to., "Fuhrerheadquarters", Oct. 13, 1941, the promotion of Kempin to the rank of SS-Sturmbannfuhrer in the Waffen-SS; AUGUST HEISSMEYER (1897-1979) General of the SS and Inspector of Concentration Camps, jailed as a war criminal, his April 30, 1936 promotion of Kempin to the rank of SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer (stamped signature) along with May 20, 1935 promotion of Kempin to the rank of SS-Untersturmfuhrer, hand-signed, both on letterhead of the Reichsfuhrer-SS; a 1p. 24mo. handwritten acknowledgement that the bearer had been promoted to SS-Obersturmfuhrer, Apr.20,1936; WALTER SCHMIDT (1917-2000) Waffen-SS officer and recipient of the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves, promotion of Kempin to SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer on Der Reichsfuhrer-SS letterhead, Berlin, June 30, 1939; and a late 1987 A.L.S. in German penned on a greeting card to "Mr. Verges", very likely Jacques Verges, French lawyer who defended war criminals and militants, including Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez a.k.a. "Carlos the Jackal".