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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]
WW2 GERMAN NAZI NICE CONCENTRATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ INMATE SURVIVOR CASED MEDAL + FORCED LABOR AUSWEIS ID - STAMPED III REICH
NICE SET FROM A POLE WHO SURVIVED CAUSE OF FORCED LABOUR.
AMAZING PIECE OF HISTORY !
WW2 GERMAN NAZI HOLOCAUST FORCED LABOR FROM
CONCENTRATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ SUBCAMP : JAWISCHOWITZ
HERMANN GOERING WERKE
LUFTWAFFE WORKERS.
A METAL PLATE WITH A NUMBER TO IDENTIFY SOMETHING, I CANNOT SAY WHAT.
RARE !!!
WW2 GERMAN NAZI WAFFEN SS TOTENKOPF NCO COLLAR TAB CONCENTRATION CAMP GUARDS SS
TUNIC REMOVED - WE CAN STILL SEE SOME GLUE TRACED ON THE BACK AND ALSO SOME SEW HOLES...
WW2 GERMAN NAZI WAFFEN SS CONCENTRATION CAMPS KAPO POLIZEI POLICE D.R.G.M STICK TRUNCHEON SIPO
RARE TO FIND, COMPLETE AND IN NICE CONDITION WITH A NICE PATINA.
THIS WAS USED TO CONTROL INMATES IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, FORCED LABOR BY POLICE OR KAPOS.
MADE BY D.R.G.M, A NICE SIPO !
HIGHLY HISTORICAL !!!
THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS THING DID...
Signed SIPO - Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO) Stahlrute: Steel tube loaded with two telescoping steel springs, cap marked SIPO (Security Police) 16 cm racked, 40 cm extended, 17 cm riveted leather strap. The Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) was the name of the combined forces of the Gestapo (secret state police) and the Kripo (criminal police) between 1936 and the start of WW2 in Sept 1939. On September 27 1939 Reichsführer-SS Himmler created the RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt) by merging the SS Sicherheitsdienst (SD) with the police SIPO and KRIPO. The SiPo was a sub-department of the SS until the end of the war. Its stated duty was to find and eliminate "enemies" of the Third Reich The Stahlrute (steel whip) was a deadly weapon. It came in two sizes, with or without a steel ball on the end. Hard strikes with a balled whip could break bones. A hit to the head could kill. Hidden in the front pocket, with a flick wrist it would be ready to strike in the blink of an eye. The less lethal small version was nicknamed the "Blitz" (lightning bolt). This is the large version, catalog No. 8321, but without the killer steel ball. This is version No. 8323 with steel ball on the end and marking D.R.G.M. .
WW2 GERMAN NAZI WAFFEN SS TOTENKOPF CONCENTRATION CAMP SS GUARD OFFICER VERTICAL COLLAR TAB SKULL
WW2 GERMAN NAZI RARE CONCENTRATION CAMP EARLY ZYKLON B CANISTER ORIGINAL
WW2 GERMAN NAZI HOLOCAUST FORCED LABOR FROM
CONCENTRATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ SUBCAMP : JAWISCHOWITZ
HERMANN GOERING WERKE
LUFTWAFFE WORKERS.
A METAL PLATE WITH A NUMBER TO IDENTIFY SOMETHING, I CANNOT SAY WHAT.
RARE !!!
WW2 GERMAN NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ EXPERIMENTAL BLOCK XX THERMOMETER IN CASE WITH TAG
THIS IS VERY RARE ITEM, HIGHLY HISTORICAL.
IT COMES FROM A 35 YEARS COLLECTOR IN POLAND. HE GOT THIS FROM THE RELATIVES OF A SURVIVOR. IT WAS KEPT IN THE FAMILY.
WOW!!!!!
WW2 GERMAN NAZI HOLOCAUST CONCENTRATION CAMP POLISH WOMAN SURVIVOR ID + PHOTO WITH MEDAL SET AUSCHWITZ INMATE
NICE PIECE OF HISTORY !!
WW2 GERMAN NAZI UNIQUE CONCENTRATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ ADMINISTRATIVE WAFFEN SS TOTENKOPF PAPER HOLE PUNCH MARKED
SS RUNES MARKED ON THE HANDLE
ON THE BOTTOM :
KL AUSCHWITZ
SS 1942/322/1
AN UNIQUE PIECE OF HISTORY THAT WAS FOUND IN A LARGE BUILDING WHERE THE SS KANTINE WAS, JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PARKING OF TODAY'S AUSCHWITZ MUSEUM.
