KL Esterwegen Documents Set - Holocaust

KL Esterwegen Documents Set - Holocaust

Awesome set of 6 documents all to a communist from Halle am Saale that was imprisoned and released from KL Esterwegen. Documents are issued by Halle police regarding this man who was a communist. All the documents are accurately described in 2 of the photos of the set, in English. All dated from 1933 until the release of this man in 1935 from KL Esterwegen. Also a document from 1936 regarding his driver's license. The Esterwegen concentration camp near Esterwegen was an early Nazi concentration camp within a series of camps first established in the Emsland district of Germany. It was established in the summer of 1933 as a concentration camp for 2000 so-called political Schutzhäftlinge (protective custody prisoners) and was for a time the second largest concentration camp after Dachau. The camp was closed in summer of 1936. Thereafter, until 1945 it was used as a prison camp. Political prisoners and so-called Nacht und Nebel prisoners were also held there. After the war ended, Esterwegen served as a British internment camp, as a prison, and, until 2000, as a depot for the German Army.

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