Bidspirit auction | Benno Martin Signed Post-War Handwritten

Benno Martin Signed Post-War Handwritten Letter from Dachau Internment Camp, Dated 1947, with Envelo - A multi-page handwritten letter in German script, dated 21.12.47, addressed to ”Meine liebe Mutter Hoffmann!” and closed with a signature reading ”Ihr treuer... [name]”. The letter's final page carries the printed return address ”Adr. Arbeits- u. Intern.-Lager Dachau (US3), Baracke 151”, identifying it as correspondence sent from the internment camp established at Dachau in the post-war period under American administration. The accompanying envelope is addressed to Fraeulein Meta Hoffmann, Einzelhof 13a, Post Lauf/Pegnitz-Land, Nuernberg-S, Loelmannstr. 53 ptr., bearing a German Post definitive stamp and a dated postmark of 24.12.47. The letter's content discusses camp conditions, food rations, packages received, and personal news exchanged between the internee and his mother, offering a first-hand civilian account of daily life within one of the internment facilities operated in occupied Germany after the war. Benno Martin served as SS-Gruppenfuehrer and Police President of Nuremberg-Fuerth during the Nazi period, holding senior command over SS, SD, and police forces in Franconia and bearing responsibility for the coordination of security and policing measures in the region, including actions against Jewish and other persecuted populations. After the war he was held by American authorities in the internment camp established at the former Dachau concentration camp site, used from 1945 to process and detain suspected Nazi functionaries, SS members, and war crimes suspects pending investigation, denazification proceedings, or trial. Correspondence such as this letter provides a rare civilian-facing, day-to-day account of internee life, conditions, and family contact during that post-war internment period, offered here without endorsement of its author's wartime role.