STRUTHOF 10 VUES DU CAMP – 10 Views from the Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp. A folder containing ten photographs of facilities, prisoners, sections, and a general view of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, published by Lucien Kohler, m., France, c. 1945. Signed on the back with an ink stamp of “Comite national du Struthof
The photographs include: the operating table, prisoners returning to camp after a day’s work, forced labor prisoners in the quarry (1942), barbed wire fencing, crematorium, gallows, wooden barracks for prisoners, a general view of the camp, and more. Each photograph described in French on its back.
The Natzweiler-Struthof camp, established by the Nazis in northern France, operated as a concentration and labor camp where human experiments were also conducted. A crematorium was built in the camp at its opening and was in continuous use to burn the bodies of prisoners who died or were murdered. In August 1943, construction of a gas chamber was completed. Experiments conducted in the camp often resulted in the death of the participants. Due to the camp’s proximity to research facilities within Germany, this fact was exploited to conduct studies on methods of killing and the effectiveness of various gas compounds. Initially, the experiments were conducted on the camp’s own prisoners; however, as the German war effort required the prisoners’ labor, Jewish and Romani prisoners were brought specifically from Auschwitz to Natzweiler-Struthof to serve as subjects in gas chamber killing experiments. Struthof is the only extermination camp that the Nazis established on French soil. The camp operated from May 21, 1941, until early September 1944, when the SS evacuated the camp’s inmates on a death march towards Dachau. It was liberated by Allied forces in 1944, with approximately 20,000 prisoners present. Throughout its operation, the Nazis murdered approximately 40,000 people in the camp.
Folder Size: 9×7 cm. Condition: Very Good.
