5 Real-photo postcards - sights from the Shirmeck camp, published by Lucien Kohler, original envelope with the Caption saying that there is exclusivity in the sale reserved for the benefit of prisoners, political deportees, and victims of the resistance. The 40s. A rare set.
Postcards: the entrance to the camp, the guard tower and the barbed wire fence, the camp barracks - aerial view.
The Vorbruck-Schirmeck forced labor camp was established in the town of Shirmeck in Alsace, which was annexed to Nazi Germany in 1940-1944 (about 6 kilometers from the Stutthof camp). Men and women who opposed the Nazi regime from the Alsace region were imprisoned in the camp, and over time prisoners from other places were brought to it. The commander of the camp was Karl Buck who was known for his cruelty and the terror he used in the camp. In the camp, interrogations, beatings, and murder. were conducted with torture in the Gestapo interrogation room located next to Karl Buck's room. Among the Arrested who were executed in Shirmeck was Antoine Becker, the Commissioner of General Intelligence in Strasbourg, and the Divisional Police Commissioner in Marseille, Czeslaw Siardecki, a member of the "Black Hand" who was murdered there on December 12, 1941, and others. About 10,000 prisoners are known to have been imprisoned in the camp and released after serving their "sentence" which ranged from several days to several months, but the Jews imprisoned there were never released.
5 postcards. 9x14 cm. Very good condition.
