My Brother in Arms - Kurt Sametreiter: available once again

[Sami1938]

Loyalty and Honour Publishing are pleased to announce the arrival of:

My Brother in Arms - Kurt Sametreiter & Heinz Klose in WWII = £50.00 (postage additional).
70% of the print run is already gone / reserved, due to the wait list.

Das Reich Tiger Commander - Philipp Thiess = £50.00 (postage additional).
25% of the print run is already gone / reserved, due to the wait list

Sommer 1943 - SS-Panzer Division Totenkopf (reprinted already!) = £40.00 (postage additional).
65% of the print run is already gone / reserved, due to the wait list.

Please get in touch to secure your copy of any of the above titles, or the other existing titles from us.
Panzerwrecks and JJ Fedorowicz are stocking the above titles, with their books being shipped to them this week, so you may prefer to order from them?

Website updated, link below:

https://www.lahpublishing.com/

Thanks for the ongoing support and interest.
Peter.

[Michael Miller]

A little background on the man...

Kurt Sametreiter, RKT (1922-2017) was interviewed for the recently released documentary "Final Account". He revealed that despite having over 70 years to acquaint himself with the reality of the organization he'd so faithfully and bravely served, he never did so. Or at any rate, he refused to admit that reality. Here he gives his assessment of the Holocaust:

"[The Holocaust] didn't happen... That's a joke. I don’t believe it. I will not believe it. It can't be.... Excuse me, but it's the Jew who puts it like that. The scale that is claimed today, I deny that, too. I deny it. It didn't happen.... The Waffen-SS had nothing to do with the terrible and brutal treatment of Jews and dissidents and the concentration camp. We were front-line soldiers… I have no regrets, and I will never regret being with that unit. Truly not.... A camaraderie like that… You could rely on every man 100 per cent. There was nothing that could go wrong. That was the beauty of it."

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Shockin ... ilm-visits...


Kurt Sametreiter
SS-[Ober?]sturmführer


* 09.04.1922 in Böckstein/St. Johann i. Pongau/Österreich.
† 28.01.2017 in Bad Gastein/Bezirk St. Johann im Pongau/Bundesland Salzburg/Österreich.

NSDAP-Nr.: [No indication of Party membership in his SS file]
SS-Nr.: 319.530 (Joined 01.04.1938)

Promotions:
01.04.1938 SS-Staffelbewerber (?)
00.00.1938 SS-Staffelmann (?)
[00.01.1941] SS-Sturmmann
20.04.1943 SS-Oberscharführer
00.00.194_ SS-Hauptscharführer
09.11.1943 SS-Untersturmführer
00.00.1945 (?) SS-Obersturmführer
Final rank per Veit Scherzer. E. G. Krätschmer, Jost Schneider, and John P. Moore give SS-Untersturmführer.

Decorations & Awards:
31.07.1943 Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes as SS-Oberscharführer and Zugfhr. in 3.(schwere-)Kompanie/SS-Panzer-Jäger-Abteilung/SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler”/Heeresgruppe Süd, Eastern Front.
Vorschlag dated 13.07.1943 and signed by Abt. Kdr. Jakob Hanreich; Approved by Kdr. of SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 1, Albert Frey.
01.09.1942 1939 Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse
13.07.1941 1939 Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse
00.00.194_ Panzerkampfabzeichen II. Stufe in Silber
00.12.1941 Panzerkampfabzeichen in Silber
15.04.1943 Verwundetenabzeichen, 1939 in Schwarz
ca. 1942 Medaille “Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42”

[Cosgar]

No remorse shown by Sametreiter at all and a Holocaust denier as well.

[Annelie]

Interesting.

Question?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... itler.html

Is Luke Hollander any relation to Karl Hollander?

[Cosgar]

Annelie
It was Luke Holland, not Hollander.

[Annelie]

Thank you........guess I need my morning coffee to wake me up