Object ID
2019.2.250
Object Name
Postcard
Date
9-27-1946
Files
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Description
Green paper with ‘PRISONER OF WAR POST CARD’ at center top; reverse has printed lines with handwritten message.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
Dachau was Germany’s longest operating concentration camp, opened by Himmler in 1933. Under Theodore Eicke’s brutal administration, Dachau became the planned paradigm of gratuitous terror, cruelty and murder, and a training facility for prospective guards for all concentration camps for Jews, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, “criminals,” and assorted “enemies of the state.” Dachau was liberated April 29, 1945 by American troops, and ironically, converted into an internment/prison camp for Nazi criminals, former concentration camp guards, etc.
Rudolf Schur, the imprisoned POW, writes on September 27, 1946 to his wife Gertrud in Karlsruhe that after “crisscrossing Germany” he has been in Dachau since September 25, and hopes to be with her in the next few days: “only days separate us.” This card was examined by a U.S. military censor.
Dimensions
3 1/4 x 5 1/2"
Keywords
Rudolf Schuhr, Gertrud Schuhr, Dachau Concentration Camp
Subcollection
Post
Recommended Citation
"Postcard from German Prisoner of War Imprisoned in Former Concentration Camp, Dachau, to his Wife" (1946). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2019.2.250.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1577
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