SMGQ-0325 Karl Ullrich Knights Cross With Oak Leaves Winner signature x2

Here we have two authentic post war signatures. One on a small 2x4in gloss photo on heavy cardstock. The second is on what appears to be a telegram receipt in which he is sending a picture to a man in Aachen. A little unfamiliar with this type of document because I’m not sure we had a similar service in the US? It is dated 1989 which is pre internet…but why not just use the regular post to mail the photo? A desirable signature among knights cross signature collectors.

From wikipedia:

Military career & post WWII life[edit]

Born in 1910, Ullrich joined the SS-Verfügungstruppe in 1934. He transferred to the SS Division Totenkopf on the Eastern Front in 1941.^{[citation needed]} He was given command of the SS Division Wiking for the final battles of the war in Hungary. A short time before the end of the war he was promoted to Oberführer and he surrendered to the Americans in May 1945.^[1]

After the war, Ullrich wrote the book Like a Cliff in the Ocean: A History of the 3. SS-Panzer-Division “Totenkopf” in which he claimed that only a single member of the Totenkopf division ever committed a war crime.

Works[edit]

• Karl Ullrich (2002): Like a Cliff in the Ocean, J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, ISBN 0-921991-69-X

Distinctions[edit]

• Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (18 May 1940) & 1st Class (1 July 1940)^[2]
• Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
  • Knight’s Cross on 19 February 1942 as SS-Sturmbannführer and commander of SS-Pionier-Bataillon 3 “Totenkopf”^[3]
  • 480th Oak Leaves on 14 May 1944 as SS-Obersturmbannführer and commander of SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 6 “Theodor Eicke”^[3]