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Polizei Major HANS HÖSL - Autograph - SS-Polizei-Gebirgsjägerreg

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Certificate of promotion to police sergeant.

Issued at the Police Training Battalion Munich on May 6, 1940.

Ink signature from the police major HANS HÖSL.

He was later commander of the SS-Polizei-Gebirgsjägerregiments 18.

War effort in Greece and Yugoslavia.

The battalion's police rounded up people in the villages and neighborhoods, shot uninvolved civilians and hostages, ransacked and set fire to the houses.
In the spring of 1944, the police rounded up around 1,700 Jews in Athens and deported them to Auschwitz, where most were immediately murdered in the gas chambers. The men of the SS-Polizei-Gebirgsjägerregiments 18 pulled a blood trail through Slovenia and Greece.

In command was Hans Hösl, who had taught at the Fürstenfeldbruck police school.

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