THEODOR EICKE (1892 - 1943) Infamous commander of Dachau Eicke encouraged his concentration camp staff to live up to their death's head symbol and treat Dachau's prisoners with ""inflexible harshness"" fittingly killed on the Eastern Front. T.L.S. ""Eicke"" in indelible pencil 2pp. 4to. Berlin June 14 1938 to Gen. WALTER SCHMITT concerning SS-Oberfuhrer KARL TAUS (1883-1977). Eicke blasts Taus' abilities as a concentration camp administrator. He advises that Taus had served at Dachau and Buchenwald further commenting: ""...Taus completely failed at Dachau...he was transferred to [Karl Otto] Koch at Buchenwald...there is no doubt that Taus has no ability or natural talent as a responsible leader at an SS concentration camp...Taus is completely soft and without initiative...His talent for organization totally required for a camp commander is absolutely missing in Taus...he is not able to organize the operation of an entire concentration camp... he talks more than he does...We can only use the best SS leaders in concentration camps...the political damage which would could result...is unimaginable...I recommended to Reichsfuhrer-SS use Taus as a leader at the new women's concentration camp Schleissheim...it is to be expected that Taus will soon be following his women underlings and become a straw puppet..."". Very good. Taus a member of the ""Blood Order"" and an ""Old Fighter"" actually survived the war because of his total lack of ""ability"". His contemporaries and superiors all either died or were executed at war's end.