SACHSENHAUSEN - ORANIENBURG CONCENTRATION CAMP. POSTCARD FROM KARL BLOCH, # 26079, BLOCK 45, FRAU LUYISE BLOCH. This Nazi concentration camp near Brlin, opened in 1936. The first German-Jewish prisoners arrived in Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg in June 1938. After the November Kristallnacht, 10 000 Jews from Berlin, Hamburg, Mecklenburg and Pomerania were interned there. Subsequently, the majority of them were released if they could prove thet they were able to leave Germany (i.e., if they possessed emigration papers). A Nazi-directed counterfeiting operation was set up in the camp by an S.S. man Bernhard Krueger. He employed 140 Jews in forging British currency as well as stamps, passports, identity documents, secret credentials, false code books, etc.Nearly all these Jwes survived. In October 1942 all the Jewish prisoners, except those employed in the counterfrit oferation, were transferred to Auschwitz. Jewish prisoners were sent back begininh with the summer of 1944.
Postkarte Type P4a .. Type C8 Camp Censor Stamp. Tied by Oranienburg, Double Circle Date Stamp. Camp Circular Censor ( D. ) Post Censorship K.L. SACHSENHAUSEN Violet Stamp. 1941/44 Hitler Definitive Issue .. Green 6Pf (Mi #516) SCARCE