F01_P13: Labor Camp Drütte, subcamp of Concentration Camp Neuengamme
1944 August 12, Front side - Waybill addressed to prisoner at Drütte labor camp.
Tan waybill with printed text and outline in German using black ink. Cursive handwriting in German using black ink is present. Two red overprint stamps appear, one a cancellation dated August 12, 1944. Two adhesive stickers with printed text in German using black ink are present. One is beige and one pink. The bottom corner of an archive appears in the top right corner of the exhibit page. The foundation is promptly working to update this scan.
Name/Title
F01_P13: Labor Camp Drütte, subcamp of Concentration Camp NeuengammeEntry/Object ID
2008.4.13.aScope and Content
1944 August 12, waybill addressed to prisoner at 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