Erich Muhsfeldt was born on the 18th of February 1913 in Neubrück then part of the German Empire. In 1927, he completed 8 classes of elementary school, and three years later he gained the profession of baker. Muhsfeldt was married and had 1 son.
On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg and the same year Muhsfeldt joined the SA. In 1937 he switched to the SS and in 1939 he became a member of the Nazi Party.
The Second World War began on 1 September 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland.
In January 1940 Muhsfeldt became a member of the SS Division Totenkopf, or Death's Head Units, which was an elite division of the Waffen-SS. Waffen SS was the military branch of the SS.



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