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REPORTS ON THE HAMBURG-NUENGAMME CONCENTRATION CAMP (3)
REPORTS ON THE HAMBURG-NUENGAMME CONCENTRATION CAMP (3)
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Incredibly detailed grouping of three retained carbon copies of prisoners' statements, likely collected for use at the Nuremberg Trials ca. 1946, each providing chilling details of the shocking conditions at the Nuengamme concentration camp and the atrocities committed therein. INCLUDES: a statement from witness 'Hagenah', 1p. 8vo., concerning the brutality of camp commander SS-Oberscharfuhrer Emanuel Eichler. In part: '...Eichler was brutal and coarse; he used to boast, among other things, that he was the executioner of Husum. This was the impression he produced on us also. He gave orders for amusement to prisoners who did not need to work - there were, in the final weeks, only about 100 of them. In addition, Eichler, together with some SS guards, beat a man who apparently attempted to escape so severely that the latter suffered four wounds in the head, a broken left arm, a displaced left kidney and several fractures from kicks. Eichler gave orders that no bandaging was to be applied. The doctor and I, however, bandaged him immediately. Eichler came back around 2300 hours, and wanted to see the man. When he set eyes on him, he tore the bandage from his face, and struck both the doctor and myself for doing it...He plundered the Red Cross parcels, and shared the booty with SS Rottenfuhrer Maas; E....'; WITH: a similar statement, 1p. 4to., Aug. 23, 1945 by Franziska Turowski, in part: '...Report on the conditions at the firm of Jung, in the Witternstrasse, Hamburg Wilhelmsburg, where prisoners from the Neuengamme Concentration Camp...were employed...the treatment of prisoners by the foremen and the SS was mean and brutal. The firm demanded an output from our people which could not be attained, on account of their weak physical condition which was further affected by deficiencies in food; they got only a litre of thin soup from the firm, as they themselves have testified. In order to drive the workers on to still greater efforts, the firm gave special privileges on a generous scale to the foremen who, on their part, incited the prisoners to work by the well-known methods. The firm of Jung must also be held responsible for failing to observe the required safety practices in connection with the clearing-up work done by prisoners. For this reason, it came about, (among other things), that one prisoner lost his life and another was severely injured...'; WITH: a similar statement, 1p. 4to., by political prisoner Michael Muller, in part: '...Report on Unterscharfuhrer/Rapportfuhrer Dreimann...for several years a hut commander in the Neuengamme camp, and finally became company sergeant-major...Dreimann behaved particularly brutally in respect of the ill-treatment and killing of prisoners. He took special pleasure, when he rode his bicycle across the parade ground...carrying a rawhide whip and striking out indiscriminately at the prisoners standing there. He behaved particularly cruelly towards sick prisoners, lashing them if they wished to transfer from the barrack block to the hospital with his riding whip. He had great sport with prisoners who were to be hanged, when he was taking them to the place of execution. Out of purely depraved pleasure he called those condemned to die by insulting names, such as 'filthy swine', 'Communist sow'; he himself regularly struck them in the face with his riding whip. He also distinguished himself on the occasion of the shooting of 59 Russian officers; he came out of the bunker dripping with blood, and took pride in having shot 21 of them personally. On the next morning, the heroes of this massacre...boasted about how many each of them had killed...he had beaten to death, out of completely sadistic pleasure, prisoners in the Wittenberg working party...' Some copy just a little blurred, else ver`y good. With full translations.
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REPORTS ON THE HAMBURG-NUENGAMME CONCENTRATION CAMP (3)

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