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WORLD: GERMANY - CAMPS & GHETTOS
Lot
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5616
Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp: 1943 Postcard franked Hitler 6pf tied by 'Berlin-Charlottenburg 6 8 43' machine pmk, to Bohemia, with 3-line cachet 'Ruckantwort nur uber die Reichsvereinigang der Juden in Deutschland Berlin-Charlottenburg 2, Kantstr 158' instructing that any reply would have to be in German & to the noted Berlin address. This card was part of the 'Briefaktion des RSHA (Juden)' which was 'Operation Mail' carried out by the Nazis in the summer of 1943 to deceive the world about the 'Final Solution'. Before being murdered Jewish prisoners were forced to write forward dated postcards or letters home falsely stating that they were in good health & doing well, & the purpose of this was also to try to lure out any Jews still in hiding. Extremely rare. 2015 Ceremuga photo cert. (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$1500
5617
Buchenwald Concentration Camp: 1945 inwards stampless Fieldpost cover (a bit battered & dirty), with 'Feldpost 7 3 45' cds. Amazing occurrence of a Wehrmacht soldier writing to a concentration camp prisoner! (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$250
5618
Dachau Concentration Camp: 1943 censored inwards cover franked Hitler 12pf (mostly torn off by censor), tied by 'Horlen 22 12 43' cds, with Dachau censor h/s. To prisoner from family in Nazi annexed western Poland. Inwards mail is extremely rare. (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$150
5619
Flossenburg Concentration Camp: 1944 inwards packet card franked Bohemia & Moravia Hitler 50c, 3K & 20K, tied by 'Komarov 28 VIII 44' cds & with Flossenburg arrival b/s. Rare usage. (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$120
5620
Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp: 1943 censored lettercard (centre fold) franked Hitler 12pf, tied by 'Grossrosen 30 12 43' cds. From prisoner to family in occupied Poland. Scarce historical item (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$150
5621
Gusen-St Georgen Concentration Camp: 1940 inwards cover franked 12pf Hindenburg tied by 'Karwin (Oberschles) 1 8 40' cds, with Return to Sender boxed cachet & another boxed cachet, & b/s 'Sankt Georgen an der Gusen', original letter. Very rare inwards cover. (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$200
5622
Gusen-St Georgen Concentration Camp: 1943 censored inwards cover (flts), stamp removed by censor, 'Danzig 4 9 4?' cds, h/s Gusen censor h/s. To prisoner from family. Very rare inwards usage. (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$150
5623
Gusen-St Georgen Concentration Camp: 1944 censored folded letter with camp rules on front (6 points), being a Mauthausen form modified in m/s, franked Hitler 12pf, tied by 'St Georgen' cds. From prisoner to family in occupied Poland. Scarce historical item. (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$150
5624
Lichtenburg Concentration Camp: 1938 printed cover (filled filing holes at right), franked Hindenburg 5pf (3), tied by 'Prettin (KR Torgau) 22 1 38' cds, with boxed censor cachet from female prisoner no 5! (Elise Ewert), to Frankfurt. Extremely rare early Nazi camp & of great historical interest as Elise Ewert was a famous German communist activist who then died in 1940 in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp. (P)
 SOLD at A$1300
5625
Natzweiler Concentration Camp: 1943 printed envelope franked Hitler 12pf, tied by 'Schirmeck-Rotau 5 5 43' pictorial cds, with boxed censor cachet, to Lorraine in France. Extremely rare camp. (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$1000
5626
Ravensbruck Concentration Camp: 1943 censored envelope franked Hitler 12pf, tied by 'Furstenberg 18 3 43' cds & with boxed camp censor cachet, from prisoner to family in Bohemia. This was a notorious camp for women prisoners. (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$200
5627
Sachenhausen-Oranienburg Concentration Camp: 1940 postcard (flts) with camp rules on front, franked Hindenburg 6pf tied by 'Oranienburg 21 9 40' cds. Unusually with 2 strikes boxed cachets of the Nazi foreign currency control office in Radom. From prisoner to family in occupied Poland. Scarce historical item. (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$120
5628
Sachenhausen-Oranienburg Concentration Camp: 1942 lettercard with camp rules inside, franked Hindenburg 12pf tied by 'Oranienburg 22 1 42' cds. From prisoner to family in occupied Poland. Scarce historical item. (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$100
5629
Sachenhausen-Oranienburg Concentration Camp: 1942 lettercard with camp rules inside, franked Hitler 12pf tied by 'Oranienburg 29 1 42' cds. From prisoner to family in occupied Poland. Scarce historical item. (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$100
5630
Sachenhausen-Oranienburg Concentration Camp: 1942 printed Postcard franked Hitler 6pf, tied by 'Oranienburg 21 2 42' cds, with censor h/s. To family in Bohemia. (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$100
5631
Sachenhausen-Oranienburg Concentration Camp: 1943 postcard (centre fold) with camp rules on front, franked Hitler 12pf tied by 'Oranienburg 19 2 43' cds. From prisoner to family in occupied Poland. Scarce historical item. (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$120
5632
Sachenhausen-Oranienburg Concentration Camp: 1944 use of Hitler 6pf Postcard reply half of special card for Russian/Ukrainian forced labourers with Cyrillic text (Mi P310A -centre fold), with 'Oranienburg 27 10 44' cds. From prisoner to family in occupied Poland. Very rare usage. (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$250
5633
Sachenhausen-Oranienburg Concentration Camp: 1944 printed lettercard franked Bohemia & Moravia Hitler 1.20K tied by 'Oranienburg 3 6 44' cds, with censor h/s, to family in Bohemia. Sachenhausen is in Germany itself, so the franking of B&M stamp is quite amazing (=12pf, correct postage rate), stamp must have been sent to inmate by family in B&M & its use allowed by camp authorities. Extremely rare usage! (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$600
5634
Sangerhausen Concentration Camp: 1944 inwards use of Hitler 6pf Postcard with 'Dolitz 26 12 44' cds, with 'Zensiert' censor h/s. To prisoner from family in Nazi annexed western Poland. Very rare inwards usage. (P)
 AVAILABLE at A$120
5635
Litzmannstadt Jewish Ghetto - Poland: 1941 use of Hitler 6pf postcard, with full message, addressed to Hungary, but no pmk & h/s 'Zuruck' (return), as censor objected to contents underlined in red crayon.
 AVAILABLE at A$80
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