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Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

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Sachsenhausen3.jpgAdded by: ClioJews arrested during Kristallnacht stand under guard before being deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Zeven, Germany, November 10, 1938. — Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Sachsenhausen4.jpgAdded by: ClioA counterfeit British bank note produced by Jewish forced laborers employed in Operation Bernhard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Under an order issued by SS chief Heinrich Himmler in 1942, Operation Bernhard initially aimed to produce large quantities of counterfeit British bank notes, flood the British currency market, and trigger a financial crisis. — USHMM, courtesy of Jack J. Silverstein
Sachsenhausen5.jpgAdded by: ClioUniformed prisoners with triangular badges are assembled under Nazi guard at the Sachenhausen concentration camp. Sachsenhausen, Germany, 1938. — National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.