Theodor Eicke
Theodor Eicke, SS-Gruppenführer, born October 17, 1892 in Hampont bei Hudingen in Alsace, Kommandant of Dachau concentration camp, winner of the Iron Cross 2nd Class in World War I, shot several SA leaders during the 1934 SA Purge “The Night of the Long Knives,” Inspector of Concentration Camps and Death’s Head units, commander of the 3rd SS Division “Totenkopf,” winner of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, killed in action on February 26, 1943 in Russia, said on attracting Army soldiers to transfer to the SS: “Bring them from the bars, bring them from the sports clubs, bring them from the barber. As far as I’m concerned, you can bring them from the brothels. Bring them from every place you meet them.” (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)
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George A. Custer
Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer assumed command of the 7th Cavalry Regiment on February 26, 1867. (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)
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Chicago Crime Calendar
On February 26, 1973 William “Pooky” Young, a 19-year-old neighborhood drug dealer, was abducted and later shot to death in an alley near 68th Street and Union Avenue in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. Larry Hoover and Andrew Howard of the Black Gangster Disciples Nation were arrested charged with murder and sentenced to 150 to 200 years in prison.