F01_P13: Labor Camp Drütte, subcamp of Concentration Camp Neuengamme
1944 October 9, Front side - Waybill mailed to prisoner a Drütte labor camp.
Tan waybill with printed text and outline in German using black ink. Cursive handwriting in German using black ink is present. At the top right, a blue 20-pfennig stamp depicting Adolf Hitler facing to the right. Above, a dark green 50-pfennig stamp depicting Adolf Hitler facing to the right. Overtop, a black ink cancellation dated October 9, 1944. At the top edge, a beige adhesive sticker with printed text in German using black ink appears.
Name/Title
F01_P13: Labor Camp Drütte, subcamp of Concentration Camp NeuengammeEntry/Object ID
2008.4.13Scope and Content
1944 October 9, waybill mailed to prisoner a Drütte labor camp.Context
Neuengamme, the large concentration camp near Hamburg, opened December 13, 1938, as a sub-camp of Sachsenhausen, and became independent on June 4, 1940. It was liberated by British armed forces on April 29, 1945. Drütte, near Brunswick, was administered by the Neuengamme commandant, providing slave laborers for a Reichswerke Hermann Göring munitions factory. Waybills for parcels mailed to prisoners at labor camp Drütte in 1944. The one mailed at Nakel/Netze on October 9 included postal insurance (“Wert Paket”), with the contents indemnified for 10 reichsmarks of value.Collection
Nazi Scourge II: Five Frame ExhibitCategory
Waybill
Philatelic Material