The deportation

Chapter I “The world of concentration camps”

1. The concentration camp (Konzentrationslager)

 

 

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Mauthausen received the first deportees on August 8, 1938 and the stone quarry became one of the most cruel places of human exploitation. The sender of this envelope, no. 357, was part of the first group of prisoners.

 

 

Instructions for the mailing of a package to the prisoners.

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