Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kurt Franke
Literature on the SS Death's Head Division like Charles Sydnor's ''Soldiers of Destruction'' (Princeton UP, 1977; 1990) or Niels Weise's biography of Theodor Eicke, the division's commander (a PhD., published in German 2013) do not mention a Kurt Franke. Apart from listings in certain directories of certain award and medal recipients, he seems to be mentioned only in Florian Berger's originally self published work on Knight's Cross recipients with Close Combat Clasp. If the bar is not to be set at the lowest imaginable level, that does not qualify as significant coverage. I was able to find one review according to which that work conveys only loose information to the biographical facts, but focuses on a retelling of the fighting, in which the soldier has participated.http://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz116460636rez.pdf Indeed, Berger mentions Franke's service as a concentration camp guard only in passing and is not able (or willing?) to name the concentration camp(s) where Franke served. The reviewer, Klaus Schreiber, characterizes the work as hero worship and unfavorably notes that there may still be a market for such publications. (Maybe that explains why Stackpole issued a translation.) Thus Franke does not meet the criteria even of . There are not enough information to include details about Frankes personal life, education and military career. There are only information about the awards he received and Berger's work is not what I would consider a reliable secondary source
— User:Assayer, 22:56, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:SOLDIER (Wikipedia:Notability)