REPORTS ON THE HAMBURG-NUENGAMME CONCENTRATION CAMP

REPORTS ON THE HAMBURG-NUENGAMME CONCENTRATION CAMP

Incredibly detailed grouping of three typed concentration camp reports, likely collected for use at the Nuremberg Trials, each providing chilling details of the shocking conditions at the Nuengamme concentration camp and the atrocities committed therein. INCLUDES: An incredibly detailed carbon copy of an unnamed prisoner's report, 4pp. folio, reading in small part: "The winter of 1939/40�was one of the hardest and longest�ground conditions at Nuengamme were the worst imaginable�Lack of underwear�absence of any alternation of outer clothing�depression of some prisoners�led to many instances of self-inflicted wounds�foreman and senior workmen�set about them with truncheons in their hand�reports were made of the most trivial offenses�punished by 25 strokes with a stick�or being suspended for hours from the rafters by the wrists�There were no beds; straw was a luxury item; merely some wood shavings strewn across the floor�the food was even worse�epidemic of spotted fever broke out�huts were covered with disinfectant; the work force even had their naval cavities deloused�" Much more content. File and staple holes, else very good. WITH: Typed prisoner's report, 1p. folio, Nuremberg, [n.d.], from Neuengamme prisoner Emil Zuleger, who had been also employed as a prisoner clerk in the hospital from 1941 to 1945, detailing the execution of tuberculosis patients and the physically unfit. In part: "�an instruction from Himmler, the SS Reichsfuhrer,�that the high level of confirmed tuberculosis cases in the total of those currently listed as physically unfit was to be reduced to a minimum�camp doctor, Dr. Willy Jager (a dentist from Berlin)�had the task of classifying the prisoners with TB and the physically unfit�nurses were compelled by threats of punishment�nurses were required to have their 10 cc. recording syringes filled with benzene�In the course of this operation, which lasted for three weeks, up to 50 prisoners a day were dispatched to the next world�These horrors were carried out by Dr. Jager and his enthusiastic assistant was SS Unterscharfuhrer Bahr�Two hospital stretchers were brought, on a non-stop turnround basis�strapped to a wheeled trolly and with comforting words, a chloroform mask was placed�Bahr interposed his body to conceal the crimes�those who had been dispatched were then taken in regular succession to the mortuary and incinerated the following day�some 1100 human beings were dispatched to the next world in the course of three weeks�.". Ragged top edge, else very good. WITH: Carbon copy of a report from a former administrative official at Nuengamme, 2pp. folio, Sandbostel, Nov. 16, 1945, detailing the organization of the camp's headquarters and providing the names and roles of other camp administrators. File and staple holes, ragged top edge, else very good.