Holocaust concentration camps money - Germany - Dachau, 3 Marks 1943 - PMG 40

Holocaust concentration camps money - Germany - Dachau, 3 Marks 1943 - PMG 40 A group of documents and a note, belonging to a soldier who was one of the liberators of the camp, the lot contains a large number of items, a certificate of temporary release for 12 hours of the soldier from the camp, a 20 mark payment slip, his personal number and name as it appeared on clothing details at the time, the prisoner’s ID card with His identity number that appears on the banknote and on the certificate, and the 3 Reichsmark banknote which was taken by the soldier as a souvenir from the camp. Dachau was a concentration camp and not an extermination camp like Auschwitz, Treblinka and others, but many Jewish prisoners and Soviet prisoners of war died in the camp due to the terrible living conditions. Of the 200,000 prisoners who passed through it in its 12 years of existence, an estimated 30,000 perished. Gas chambers were set up in the camp and there is evidence of murders carried out in them, with the help of Zyklon gas, in early 1945. Demographic estimates of the camp vary from time to time and from source to source. One of the data gives a general estimate of over 200,000 prisoners from over 30 countries during the years of the Third Reich, of which two thirds were political prisoners, including many Catholic priests, and almost a third were Jews. An estimated 25,613 prisoners died in the camp and nearly 10,000 others in its sub-camps mostly from disease, malnutrition and suicide. According to another estimate, 206,206 prisoners were in the camp and 31,951 deaths were recorded.