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SS-Obergruppenfuhrer, General of the Waffen-SS and the Police as well as Head of the Volksdeutschen Mittelstelle. Handwritten signature as leader of the SS section VII on transfer letter for a SS Sturmbannführer. Dated October 1932. SIGNED BLUE PENCIL, FINE
Werner Lorenz (October 2, 1891 – March 13, 1974) was an SS functionary during the Nazi era. He was head of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (VOMI) (Main Office for Ethnic Germans), an organization charged with resettling ethnic Germans in the “German Reich” from other parts of Europe, as well as colonising the occupied lands during World War II. After the war, Lorenz was sentenced to prison for crimes against humanity in 1948. He was released in 1955 and died in 1974.