HELL BERTHOLD: (1901-1945) German SA-Oberfuhrer and politician directly involved in the brutal administration of the early ?wild? concentration camps (Wilde Konzentrationslager) controlled by the Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1933. Hell was killed during the height of the Battle of Berlin. T.L.S., Berthold Hell, one page, 4to, Berlin, 29th September 1936, to an unidentified recipient, in German. Hell writes a letter of testimony for Obersturmfuhrer Fritz Bernburg, whom he has known as a fighter in the Volkisch combat organisation Frontbann since 1925, and who joined the Charlottenburg SA in 1927, remarking ?From that time until 1934, I came to know him, in the same formations to which I myself belonged, as an upright and exemplary National Socialist?, and further adding ?When Bernburg later initially assumed the leadership of smaller formations and was subsequently entrusted by me with command of Sturm 22/I, Bernburg also proved himself in these positions to be a prudent and successful SA leader. His sense of comradeship was exemplary, and the successes achieved in his Sturm were due primarily to his organisational ability and his purposeful work, both within the organisation and in its external activities. Within a short time he developed his formation into an exemplary SA Sturm. founded upon the National Socialist worldview?. One small, neat split to the right edge of the central fold, VG