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    Sepp Dietrich’s Diamonds

    Oct 01, 2021 3 minutes
    by Dietrich Maerz

    At the MAX Show in October 2013, the Hamburg-based militaria dealer H. Weitze had the B-Type Oak Leaves with Swords and Diamonds of Oberst-Gruppenführer Josef “Sepp” Dietrich for sale. It did not take long for the spectacular set to be sold to an American collector.

    Together with the Diamonds came a set of over 30 unpublished photographs of Sepp Dietrich and his family. Among them were the only known photographs of Dietrich wearing the Diamonds.

    Mr. Weitze gave me the opportunity to scan

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