4X5 B&W bookstock vintage photograph signed in black fountain pen ink by Heinz Reinefarth. Some light creasing, otherwise, in good condition.
(1903-1979) Gruppenführer Heinrich Reinefarth was a Nazi German military officer during World War II and government official in FRG after the war. During the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944, his troops committed numerous war atrocities. After the war Reinefarth became the mayor of the town of Westerland and member of the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag. Despite Polish demands for extradition, he was never convicted of any war crimes. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II Reinefarth was conscripted as a reserve Feldwebel. For his actions during the Invasion of Poland, he received the 2nd Class Iron Cross. He took part in the 1940 campaign against France, for which he was awarded the Knight's Cross.
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