This is a photograph of SS-Hauptsturmführer Dieter Wisliceny, signed in black marker (slightly faded); the reverse in pen “Christmas 1944, Ardennes Offensive” as well as other markings; measuring 89 mm x 125 mm; near extremely fine condition, with a small blotch on the upper left of the photograph.
Footnote: Dieter Wisliceny joined the NSDAP in 1933 and enlisted in the SS in 1934, where he rose to the final rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer. During the implementation of the Final Solution, he was tasked with liquidating numerous ghettos and Jewish communities in occupied Europe. Wisliceny was a key witness to the prosecution of Adolf Eichmann for war crimes. Wisliceny as extradited to Czechoslovakia, where he was tried and hanged for war crimes in 1948. The affidavit of Dieter Wisliceny’s testimony are publicly available - the following is a quote taken during a trial in Nuremberg; “Eichmann told me that the words "final solution" meant the biological extermination of the Jewish race, but that for the time being able-bodied Jews were to be spared and employed in industry to meet current requirements. I was so much impressed with this document which gave Eichmann authority to kill millions of people that I said at the time : "May God forbid that our enemies should ever do anything similar to the German people". He replied : "Don't be sentimental-this is a Fuehrer order". I realized at that time. that the order was a death warrant for millions of people and that the power to execute this order was in Eichmann's hands subject to approval of Heydrich and later Kaltenbrunner. The program of extermination was already under way and continued until late 1944.”