Who signed this?

[andrewb]

Greetings to all.
I recently purchased this EK2 group and would like to know if anyone out there
knows who the SS-Gruppenfuhrer is that signed it?
Many thanks,
AB.

[Ian Jewison]

SS Gruppenf******252;hrer Paul Hausser.

http://www.geocities.com/~orion47/SS...ulHausser.html

[Nick_since_1985]

Nice catch

[Simon O.]

Very nice catch indeed!

[andrewb]

Thanks Ian for your help. Much appreciated.
Thanks Nick and Simon for your coments.
Yes a nice pick up. Got it for a good price. The EK2 is a round '3' and comes with 2 personal letters to his wife, one from the russian front informing her of her husbands death from a mate.
It was a classic " right place at the right time."............Wouldn't we all love to have more of that happen???
Regards,
AB.

[Hank C.]

I don't collect SS stuff, but I wish I could be "right place, right time" for something like this!
Congrats.

Hank

[andrewb]

Neither do I Hank but I just couldn't let it pass me by. Its my first peice of SS.......Got a funny feeling its not going to be the last!!!!
Cheers,
AB.

[Simon O.]

Interesting that the EK should happen to be a round 3. I picked up a grouping to a GJ a while back, he was awarded the EKII around mid-1940 too and it was also a round 3. Just wonder if it's a coincidence or if a batch of round 3s were being awarded around mid-1940?

[Robin Lumsden]

Interesting that the EK should happen to be a round 3. I picked up a grouping to a GJ a while back, he was awarded the EKII around mid-1940 too and it was also a round 3. Just wonder if it's a coincidence or if a batch of round 3s were being awarded around mid-1940?

Good point. In my opinion, the round 3s and uebergrosse crosses all date from the 1939-40 period. Like the Schinkels.

[andrewb]

I posted pics of mine for opinions on the forum last week. Here is the link if you want to have a look.
Regards,
AB.
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=195920