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In the course of the war, the camp was staffed by 6,500 to 7,000 members of the German Schutzstaffel (SS), approximately 15 percent of whom were later convicted of war crimes. Some, including camp commandant Rudolf Höss, were executed. The Allied Powers refused to believe early reports of the atrocities at the camp, and their failure to bomb the camp or its railways remains controversial. One hundred and forty-four prisoners are known to have escaped from Auschwitz successfully, and on October 7, 1944, two Sonderkommando units—prisoners assigned to staff the gas chambers—launched a brief, unsuccessful uprising.
As Soviet troops approached Auschwitz in January 1945, most of its population was evacuated and sent on a death march. The prisoners remaining at the camp were liberated on January 27, 1945, a day now commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the following decades, survivors such as Primo Levi,Viktor Frankl, and Elie Wiesel wrote memoirs of their experiences in Auschwitz, and the camp became a dominant symbol of the Holocaust. In 1947, Poland founded a museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, and in 1979, it was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The ideology of Nazism brought together elements of antisemitism, racial hygiene, and eugenics, and combined them with pan-Germanism and territorial expansionism with the goal of obtaining more Lebensraum (living space) for the Germanic people.[10] Nazi Germany attempted to obtain this new territory by attacking Poland and the Soviet Union, intending to deport or kill the Jews and Slavs living there, who were viewed as being inferior to the Aryan master race.[11] After the invasion of Poland in September 1939,
German dictator Adolf Hitler ordered that the Polish leadership and intelligentsia should be destroyed.[12] Approximately 65,000 civilians were killed by the end of 1939. In addition to leaders of Polish society, the Nazis killed Jews, prostitutes, Romani, and the mentally ill.[13][14] SS-Obergruppenführer (Senior Group Leader) Reinhard Heydrich, then head of the Gestapo, ordered on September 21 that Jews should be rounded up and concentrated into cities with good rail links. Initially the intention was to deport the Jews to points further east, or possibly to Madagascar.[15]
Concentration Camp AUSCHWITZ SCARCE RM .50 money token for WAFFEN SS TOTENKOPF GUARDS
stamped, extremely rare
in exc condition sold over 1200$
Holocaust Poland Pole Concentration camp AUSCHWITZ feldpost RARE postcard inmate
Concentration camp AUSCHWITZ feldpost letter enveloppe sent to GENERALGOVERNMENT
enveloppe only
Waffen SS Totenkopf concentration camp GUARD NCO blank collar tab tunic removed
WWII German Nazi Waffen SS TEMPORARY CONCENTRATION CAMP GUARDS tunic removed COLLAR TAB
RARE
Original RARE WWII Waffen SS TEMPORARY CAMP GUARDS COLLAR TAB. (Kragenpatte) Certified. In August 1929 the SS, Schutz Staffel, (Protection Squad), incorporated the wear of rank collar tabs on the left side of the collar of the service tunic. The SS collar tabs were originally adopted from the earlier rank collar tabs as utilized by the SA, Sturmabteilung, (Storm Troops). Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler’s obsession with pagan runic symbolism manifested itself in runic emblems used by the SS, Schutz Staffel, (Protection Squad), the most famous of which was the dual sig-runes used on the collar tabs as introduced in May 1933. Additional runic style collar tabs were introduced at various times through-out the war. The assorted SS collar tabs remained in usage through-out the war with a couple of minor alterations. The SS-Totenkopfverbände, (Death’s Head Units), were responsible for guarding German concentration camps from 1933 until 1939 when its personnel were assigned as the nucleus of the newly forming Waffen-SS-Totenkopf-Division. As a result new Totenkopf-Wachsturmbanne, (Death’s Head-Guard Battalion), units were formed and assigned to guard the concentration camps. Later in the war as manpower shortages in the Waffen-SS became more severe many of the younger, physically fit, Totenkopf-Wachsturmbanne personnel were transferred into assorted Waffen-SS units and had to be replaced. This prompted Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler to induct roughly 10,000 older, (40+), reservists to fill the empty camp guard positions. This pattern collar tab was introduced late in the war, (circa June 1944), for wear by Heer and Luftwaffe personnel on temporary duty as concentration camp guards. Right hand side, black wool construction collar tab with machine embroidered, double armed swastika in silvery/grey rayon threads.
Concentration Camp AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU original photo taken at the liberation NEW train arrival GHETTO DEPORTED JEWISH GYPSIES star of david
i have a lot of 13 original photos taken at the liberation.
they are written on the back and dated 1947, date when they were stored to archive by the military.
18x13cm
amazing piece of holocaust history !
Concentration Camp AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU original photo taken at the liberation NEW train arrival GHETTO DEPORTED JEWISH GYPSIES
i have a lot of 13 original photos taken at the liberation.
they are written on the back and dated 1947, date when they were stored to archive by the military.
18x13cm
amazing piece of holocaust history !
Concentration Camp AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU original photo taken at the liberation NEW train arrival GHETTO DEPORTED JEWISH GYPSIES
i have a lot of 13 original photos taken at the liberation.
they are written on the back and dated 1947, date when they were stored to archive by the military.
18x13cm
amazing piece of holocaust history !
Concentration Camp AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU original inmates survivor photo taken at the liberation
i have a lot of 13 original photos taken at the liberation.
they are written on the back and dated 1947, date when they were stored to archive by the military.
18x13cm
amazing piece of holocaust history !
Concentration Camp AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU original photo taken at the liberation train corpes
i have a lot of 13 original photos taken at the liberation.
they are written on the back and dated 1947, date when they were stored to archive by the military.
18x13cm
amazing piece of holocaust history !
