Question about a Schmeling sparring partner/SS officer

Interesting. I like old stories like this. I had a book once about Harry Haft the survivor of death camps who fought Marciano. I leant it out and never got it back.

I can’t hear the name as clearly either.

 

Schestamation?

 

Intruiging story ,I hope you get to the bottom of it.

 

Seconded!

 

Whats this so called "SS" officers rank ? Untersturmfuhrer (2nd Lt) was the lowest Officers rank.

Highly unlikely that a Officer brings a prisoner a change of clothing.......even more unlikely that said person was the "killer"..........he might have been in command to order executions aka give the command but nevertheless would not personally pull the trigger in the vast majority of cases.

If in fact Schmelings sparring partner joined the Allgemeine SS and /or the Verfugungstruppen he would have by the early 1940's definitely volunteered to the Waffen SS, a elite unit, for active Combat especially in the East.

Schmeling was with the Fallschirmjager, another elite unit so it stands to reason that a dedicated athlete, "Jacob" could also join the Waffen SS because it was a elite unit , IMO, again highly unlikely that said person is performing exclusive duty in the camps instead of participating in a ideology war against the Russians. When you joined the Waffen SS you knew that you were seeing front line duty/fighting , guaranteed.

LeibstandarteAH,Totenkopf,Das Reich and Wking were the premier Waffen SS units but Totenkopf was in charge of the KZ's before it turned into a combat unit, however Totenkopf rotated its personal thru the KZ's for guard duty to give them rest from the front.

Auschwitz was mainly a brutal slave labor camp where the majority of prisoners were simply worked/starved to death, the rest were killed or died from disease but its main purpose was war production.

Treblinka etc were pure death camps.

 

Perhaps Jakob Schoenrath?
He was in Warsaw in 1942.

 

I'd say it's Schonrath alright, there is a picture of them in the February 22 1935
edition of the New York Daily News, prior to his contest with Hamas.

 

I have it saved but I don't know how to post it here!
It's a sparring shot too!

 

The 1932 guy doesn't sound like Schonrath but I'm not even sure what the announcer said. But for sure Max had a sparring partner called Jakob Schonrath.

 

Could the 1932 guy be Isidora Gastanaga?

 

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/417904031/

 

This is one of those posts where liking it, isn't exactly covering the feelings I have toward it. Liked for information, not so much the genocides.