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Four souvenir postcards -The day of the liberation of the Nazi death camps

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4 Memorial postcards - the day of liberation from the Nazi death camps. [TAG DER BEFREIUNG]: Buchenwald, Dachau, Mauthausen, Stutthof. * Postcard designed by E. Burner [plate-signed] depicting a prisoner's hands rising up from barbed-wire fences. In memory of those killed in Buchenwald, Dachau and Stutthof. April-May 1945.

* Memorial postcard from the liberation of the Dachau camp depicting America's statue of liberty beside the camp's watchtower and barbed-wire fence against the background of the sun's rays breaking through the darkness [symbolizing the camp's liberation], and the date 29/4/1945. Postal stamp stamped 'Liberation Day' [Tag der Befreiung]. * Memorial postcard from the liberation of the Mauthausen camp from 5/5/1945. The front has a picture of a prisoner's hand holding the barbed-wire fence, with Republic of Austria stamps under it.
* Memorial postcard from the liberation of the Dachau camp depicting prisoners in uniform breaking through the barbed-wire fences at liberation. Official stamp on the reverse: DACHAU-GEDACHTNISKUNDGEBUNG 18/5/47. Very fine condition.

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71. Four souvenir postcards -The day of the liberation of the Nazi death camps