Author: Paul Amner

The “Effektenkammer” in the Camps of NS Germany

“Effektenkammer” in Buchenwald camp in 2004 Every concentration camp of the Third Reich had a large storage building called “Effektenkammer,” but the largest one I have seen that is still standing is in the Buchenwald camp near Weimar. The Effekten­kammer was that building in the camps where the personal belongings of the prisoners were stored…

Forced Prostitution in State Brothels built by the National Socialists

Christa Paul, Zwangsprostitution, Edition Hentrich, Berlin, 1994, 240 S., €39.80 Ill. 1: “The German Labor Front, June 1942, Confidential. Re.: Setting up brothels for foreign workers”. Ill. 2: Balance sheet of the brothel in Buchenwald concentration camp, July 12, 1943. Imagine for a minute that the economy of your country was booming so well that…

How a TV Documentary Turned a British War Crime into a German War Crime

With British armored forces only hours away from finishing World War II, Heinrich Himmler ordered approximately 10,000 weak and sick prisoners from the concentration camp Neuengamme and its satellite camps to be transferred to three ships parked in the Bay of Lübeck. The three ships were the Deutschland, the Thielbek and the cruise liner Cap…

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