Lot 567

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Contemporary retained copy of a prisoner's statement in German, 1p. 4to., Hamburg, Sept. 8, 1945, regarding the brutality of the Neuengamme commanders and their abuse of imprisoned Jehovah's Witnesses. In part: 'Commandant Herr Pauli...treated the occupants like dirt...Obersturmfuhrer Tumann...terror of Neuengamme, no day went by without his handing out to prisoners the punches of a boxer...[when] cruelties perpetrated on the prisoners in the Neuengamme camp were made generally known...Berlin was jolted onto the alert by the activity of Jehovah's Witnesses...we duly had to stand for 36 hours at the camp gate without food or water...Several Jehovah's Witnesses were beaten by Herr T. with his ox-hide whip...' One Jehovah's Witness was punished by '50 strokes of a stick', merely for writing in a letter: 'This too will soon come to an end'. Another Jehovah's Witness was punished with 50 strokes of a stick, then sent to arduous physical labor, 'because he had on him a page from the Bible'. Very good, with full translation. Of course, Jehovah's Witnesses were severely persecuted under the Nazis. This statement was undoubtedly prepared by British interrogators building their case for the 1946 war crimes trial of eleven Neuengamme defendants.

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October 28, 2020 10:00 AM EDT
Chesapeake City, MD, US

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