290:. Himmler processed this dismissal in March 1944, retroactively effective as of January 1942, as the allegations against Tamaschke proved to be untenable according to Himmler's findings. Tamaschke had been reprimanded for attempting to buy the Jewish-owned Czech company Nalus and Mansfeld, something which Himmler described in his official reprimand as Tamaschke taking "advantage of your position as an SS officer in order to lay your hands on a commercial enterprise you could not gain possession of in any other way".
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Tamaschke's first marriage would end in divorce, although
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and was the founder of the Berlin branch of the party's
Officers Bund. Tamaschke broke up his household in 1930, and quit working in his father-in-law's business at the end of 1932. After a period of unemployment, Tamaschke found a job in the district office in
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Konzentrationslager: Organisationsgeschichte und
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concentration camps. He was never tried for his role in the
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241:Lichtenburg
155:Kapp Putsch
139:German Army
117:Ravensbrück
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271:Aufseherin
127:Early life
105:German SS-
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