F02_P15: Youth Concentration Camp Moringen
1942 August 26, Front side - Letter from Moringen boy's concentration camp.
White-tan cover sent from young man at Moringen youth concentration camp. Cursive handwriting in pencil is displayed overall. At the top right corner is a 12-pfennig red stamp depicting Adolf Hitler facing to the right with German text "Deutsch's Reich" underneath. Overtop is a cancellation stamp from Sollingen, dated August 26th, 1942. The reverse side (scanned at the top of the document) features a purple stamp which reads "Zur Beachtung" in German or "To attend to" in English. The stamp describes instructions for prisoner's to receive money from family.
Name/Title
F02_P15: Youth Concentration Camp MoringenEntry/Object ID
2007.2.15.a-bScope and Content
1942 August 26, letter from Moringen boy's concentration camp.Context
In 1939 and 1940, the Nazis established three concentration camps to “re-educate” wayward young people who deviated from the official racist doctrine of the state – at Moringen and Litzmannstadt for boys, and at Uckermark for girls. One example of a crime that led to the incarceration of so-called “Swingboys” was a fondness for jazz music, which the Nazis disparaged as “niggerjazz.” Moringen was very small, with a capacity for 400 prisoners. Opened in April 1933 as a regular concentration camp for men, it became the first women’s concentration camp in September 1933. In August 1940, the first youth arrived when it was redesignated Jugendschutzlager Moringen, also known as Konzentrationslager für Jugendliche. Very few prisoner letters from Moringen are known, and none are recorded from other youth concentration camps. This is an August 26, 1942, young man’s letter to his family. A purple handstamped cachet on the back gives instructions for sending money to inmates.Collection
Nazi Scourge I: Primary ExhibitionCategory
Cover, Registered Letter
Philatelic Material