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NSDAP Party Membership Book for Gunter d'Alquen with Heydrich Signed Promotion Page

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NSDAP Party Membership Book for Gunter d'Alquen with Heydrich Signed Promotion Page
NSDAP Party Membership Book for Gunter d'Alquen with Heydrich Signed Promotion Page. Incredible piece belonging to a well known SS officer who was close to Heinrich Himmler. One of the promotion slips inside the party book is signed by Reinhard Heydrich. Gunter d'Alquen (24 October 1910 – 15 May 1998) was chief editor of the weekly Das Schwarze Korps ("The Black Corps"), the official newspaper of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and commander of the SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers. Gunter d'Alquen was born to a Catholic-Freemason wool merchant and reserve officer named Carl d'Alquen, in Essen on 24 October 1910.[1][2] He attended grammar school in Essen and joined the Hitler Youth in 1925[dubious – discuss]. In 1927, d'Alquen became a member of the SA and as a 16-year-old joined the NSDAP.D'Alquen was active in the National Socialist German Student Union. He became a member of the SS on 10 April 1931. He did not complete his studies in history and philology and instead turned to a journalistic career. From 1932, he was a political correspondent to the editorial board of the Völkischer Beobachter ("Völkisch Observer"). It was here he aroused the attention of Heinrich Himmler, who appointed him chief editor of Das Schwarze Korps in March 1935. D'Alquen's newspaper often attacked intellectuals, students, Freemasons, certain scientists, rebellious businessmen, traffickers, clerics and other representatives of German society that had aroused Himmler's anger. With its notorious anti-Semitism, Das Schwarze Korps established itself as a moral spokesperson of Nazi beliefs.From September 1939, d'Alquen became a prominent SS war correspondent. He was appointed head of the propaganda formation SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers named after Kurt Eggers, a friend of d'Alquen, an SS war correspondent and editor of Das Schwarze Korps who was killed in action in 1943.[3]