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Extracts from documents about the Oranienburg concentration camp, including extracts from an aticle on the treatment of prisoners (including frequent beatings), and a list of prisoners showing how much weight they gained while held at the camp

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Times, The (London newspaper)

Date: 19 September 1933

Literal Title: Extract from "Times" article, 19 September, 1933.

Total Pages: 3

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: PS-2824

Citations: IMT (page 15599), IMT (page 15609), IMT (page 15613)

HLSL Item No.: 456971

Notes:The extracts from the article are PS 2824A; the "List of Weights" is PS 2824B.

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Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SA, SD, OK… Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)…

CONCENTRATION CAMP ORANIENBURG [Konzentrationslager Oranienburg]
by
SA-Sturmbannfuehrer Schaefer "Buch-und Tiefdruck" Company m.b.H.
Book Publishing Division Berlin SW19 1934, Pages 64-65.
Every day the SA which was composed of various companies detached for the guarding of the camp received instructions from the camp commandant.
The most trusted, oldest SA men v/ere selected in order to give them homes in the camp since they were the permanent camp guards.
In such a manner we created a cadre of experienced guardsmen who were constantly prepared to be employed.
693256—46—30
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