Heinz Tangermann Signed Letter - Einsatzgruppen

Heinz Tangermann Signed Letter - Einsatzgruppen
Letter from an Einsatzgruppen member SS-Oberscharfuhrer Heinz Tangermann.The letter reads : In the aftermath of my letter of 7/8/36 - to V.B.No. 32945 I hand over the attached documents that were sent to me today and is signed SS-Oberscharfuhrer Heinz Tangermann.Tangermann was the son of a forester. He attended high school in Hersfeld and Eisenach . In 1927 he passed the Abitur. In Eisenach he completed an apprenticeship as a lathe operator until 1930, but was then unable to find a job. From 1929 to 1930 he was a member of the Hitler Youth . From March to August 1930 he was a member of the SA , from which he switched to the SS . In November 1930 he joined the NSDAP . From June to August 1933 he was employed in the SS labor camp Trügleben and then until April 1934 with the SS airfield guard in Gotha . He then worked as a lathe operator and welder at various companies before moving to the Gestapo in Dessau as a detective in December 1935 . In 1938 he was seconded to the Gestapo in Bad Nauheim .In the spring of 1941 he was sent to Düben in Saxony and assigned to Einsatzkommando 9 of Einsatzgruppe B. As leader of the partial command in Lepel in February 1942, he is said to have organized and directed the shooting of at least 1,100 Jews in the ghetto there. With his sub-command, he took part in "Jewish actions" in Druja, Braslaw and another location in the Glebokie Regional Commission in Belarus . From October 1943 to April 1944 he headed the branch office of the KdS Lublin in Radzyn. After his assignment in Radzyn, he was assigned to the zbV 27 command in autumn 1944, which was used to suppress the Slovak national uprising. The men of Kommando zbV 27 murdered at least 158 ​​people and deported over 110 to Auschwitz and from there to Ravensbrück .In March 1945, he said he was sent to a hospital in Dessau . He later fled with his wife to Hersfeld, where he was arrested by the Americans in December 1945 and taken to the Darmstadt internment camp . In 1948 he was released from internment. On June 21, 1948, the Spruchkammer classified him in group III of the incriminated. He then found a job, first as a lathe operator, then as a technical employee at the company Maschinenbau Kupfermühle in Bad Hersfeld. Investigations against him were initiated in 1962. He was arrested on February 15, 1965. The Berlin Regional Court sentenced him to 6 years in prison on May 6, 1966 for aiding and abetting murder in the case of the killing of the ghetto residents in Lepel. After his release on parole in September 1969, he worked until his retirement in 1976 as a mechanic at his former employer in Bad Hersfeld.The document measures 200mm x 115mm