CONCENTRATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ INMATE SURVIVOR COMMEMORATIVE PLATE WITH ID NUMBER HOLOCAUST

T4 program Jewish mass killing police squad Sicherheitspolizei Einsatzkommando Einsatzgruppen half dogtag

extremely rare, in this condition.

unique and high importance piece of the history of the holocaust.

The Einsatzgruppen were formed under the direction of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich and operated by the Schutzstaffel (SS) before and during World War II. The Einsatzgruppen had their origins in the ad hoc Einsatzkommando formed by Heydrich to secure government buildings and documents following the Anschluss in Austria in March 1938. Originally part of the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police; SiPo), two units of Einsatzgruppen were stationed in the Sudetenland in October 1938. When military action turned out not to be necessary due to the Munich Agreement, the Einsatzgruppen were assigned to confiscate government papers and police documents. They also secured government buildings, questioned senior civil servants, and arrested as many as 10,000 Czech communists and German citizens. From September 1939, the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Main Office; RSHA) had overall command of the Einsatzgruppen.

As part of the drive by the Nazi regime to remove so-called "undesirable" elements from the German population, from September to December 1939 the Einsatzgruppen and others took part in Action T4, a program of systematic murder of persons with physical and mental disabilities and patients of psychiatric hospitals. Aktion T4 mainly took place from 1939 to 1941, but the killings continued until the end of the war. Initially the victims were shot by the Einsatzgruppen and others, but gas chambers were put into use by spring 1940.

UNIQUE Concentration camp AUSCHWITZ Waffen SS totenkopf officer guards photo in frame

this is an amazing piece of history !!

WW2 German Nazi Forced Labor Mercedes Benz Luftwaffe worker's ID pin

From 1937, Daimler-Benz AG increasingly produced armament items such as the LG 3000 truck and aircraft engines such as the DB 600 and DB 601. To create additional capacity for aircraft engine production in addition to the Marienfelde plant the Genshagen plant was built in a well-concealed forest location south of Berlin in 1936.

Armament production accounted for an ever-growing proportion of the company’s revenues up to the start of the war. In the summer of 1941, the Daimler-Benz AG Board of Management, chaired by Wilhelm Kissel, no longer envisaged a swift end to the war or an imminent return to producing civilian vehicles.

The most important line of business was truck production, whilst passenger-car manufacture – already limited to military requirements since the beginning of the war – was in decline and virtually came to a standstill by the end of 1942. The company was now focusing on the manufacture and assembly of military components for the army, navy and air force.

Off-road LGF 3000 truck, 1940.Off-road LGF 3000 truck, 1940.
Spare parts production and the repair of military vehicles and engines were also growing in importance. New staff were needed to handle the increased armament production because many workers were fighting on the front line.

Daimler-Benz DB 601 A aero engine, 12-cylinder V-engine with gasoline injection, 1937Daimler-Benz DB 601 A aero engine, 12-cylinder V-engine with gasoline injection, 1937
Initially, the company recruited women in order to cope with the required unit volumes. However, as staff numbers were still too low, Daimler-Benz also used forced labourers. These prisoners of war, abducted civilians and detainees from concentration camps were housed close to the plants. Forced labourers from western Europe lived in guest houses, private accommodation or schools.

Workers from eastern Europe and prisoners of war were interned in barrack camps with poor, prison-like conditions. Concentration camp detainees were monitored by the SS under inhumane conditions. They were “loaned out” to companies in exchange for money. In 1944, almost half of Daimler Benz’s 63,610 Daimler Benz employees were civilian forced labourers, prisoners of war or concentration camp detainees.

After the war, Daimler-Benz admitted its links with the Nazi regime, and also became involved in the German Industry Foundation’s initiative “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”, whose work included the provision of humanitarian aid for former forced labourers.

Concentration Camp BUCHENWALD inmate's liberation uniform patch + registration certificate ID

a unique piece of history !

this is a nice set from one inmate who survived camp BUCHENWALD.
at liberation, they gave a patch with Buchenwald on it to put on the sleeve of the jacket.
then they also filled a registration certificate like this one where it's written name, date of birth, and also destination where the inmate wants to go once he will leave camp (after the quarantine)

that inmate was born in Vienna, Czech.

nice holocaust piece of history !