Holocaust concentration camps money - Germany - 2 mark 1937-1944 - Buchenwald camp - F-VF

Holocaust concentration camps money - Germany - 2 mark 1937-1944 - Buchenwald camp - F-VF

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2 Reichsmark (2 Mark), prisoner of war canteen money for use in the sub-camp of Buchenwald, Standort Kantine SS issues, overprinted SS - Ko.Rottleberode, many of these camp notes were destroyed by fire as the Germany tried to destroy evidence of the holocaust, this is a scarce survivor, a rare and interesting piece of WW2 history

Buchenwald (in German: KZ Buchenwald, Konzentrationslager Buchenwald in English translation: a forest of beech trees) was a concentration camp in Nazi Germany, one of the largest in Germany, to which about 138 sub-camps were attached. The Buchenwald camp operated from its establishment in July 1937 until its liberation by the United States Army on April 11, 1945. During this period, approximately 250,000 people passed through it. It is estimated that about 65,000 people were murdered in Buchenwald, including the prisoners who were murdered in the death marches upon the announcement of the approach of the Allied forces, shortly before the liberation of the camp, and without naming the prisoners who were sent from Buchenwald to the extermination camps and the facilities of the "T4" program (Operation Euthanasia), in Sonnenstein Castle and other sites others. In his hair is written sarcastically "Jedem das Seine" (in German: each to his own destiny).