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Lot 426
REPORTS ON THE HAMBURG-NUENGAMME AND BEHNDORF CONCENTRATION CAMPS (2) Incredibly detailed pair of retained carbon copies of prisoners' statements, likely collected for use at the Nuremberg Trials ca. 1946, each providing frightening details of the horrific conditions at the Nuengamme and Behndorf/Helmstedt concentration camps, and the atrocities committed there. INCLUDES: a statement submitted by four named Polish prisoners, 1p. 4to., in part: '...SS Unterscharfuhrer Dreimann...was designated as the fiend of Neuengamme. He exercised, during the period from mid-May 1943 onwards, a rule of terror among the prisoners which cannot be described here in words. We, the undersigned witnesses, give the following information and some examples of his behaviour and actions...The beatings or brutal whippings which were carried out in the block commander's room were, in every case, the result of orders from him. He himself took a sufficient personal part in them for it to be established, at the outset, that Dreimann was a sadist, a person with overwhelming perversions who, unmoved by any human feelings, has exercised at full capacity his violent passions and brutal treatment on the defenseless prisoners. Dreimann's speciality lay in his predilection for kicking prisoners ruthlessly in the belly, the testicles or the shins. With the whip, he normally struck people across the face or on the head. He did it in such a savage manner that the person struck was no longer recognizable as a human being. These beatings with stick or whip were ordered by him for the most trivial offences, or were actually carried out by him. Dreimann had the chief responsibility for the executions which were carried out in the bunker. Here Dreimann went so far on his own authority that he carried out hangings of his own free choice, and without bothering about the victims' nationality...prisoners who had attempted to escape or had done bad work, which he treated as sabotage, and accordingly handed over those concerned to be hanged. He went so far as to subject prisoners who were to be hanged to 4 or 5 days starvation beforehand. Dreimann was the executioner of Neuengamme...[he] dealt personally with the hanging of over 80 Netherlanders who had taken part in the resistance movement in Holland. Dreimann forced the Netherlanders in turn to hang each other and to take the bodies down. In addition, there is to be put to his account the hanging of a group of Czech nationals, who were brought into the camp as alleged resistance fighters. The murder of Russian prisoners-of-war who had absconded from a P.0.W.camp was also his doing; he lent a hand in ruthlessly hanging them. in 1944, 400-500 Hungarian Jews were delivered to the camp. In the space of a couple of months;, over half the numbers in this particular train load were annihilated. Here Dreimann approached the individual working groups personally, in order to give instructions himself as to how they were to be wiped out. Very few of these Jews are still alive...He took the possessions of prisoners which were of personal interest to himself, in order to keep them for his own purposes above all, precious stones, gold, tobacco and good soap, etc...as he roamed through the blocks and sought out prisoners...over any triviality, to thrash them in an inhuman fashion...' Ragged top margin not affecting content; WITH: a similar statement from prisoner 'E. Bosch', held at Behndorf/Helmstedt concentration camp, 1p. 14to., in part: '...on the I.B.N. company, formerly the Ascania Works [Berlin]...There worked at the I.B.N. factory 200 male prisoners, 2000 women prisoners and 800 German civilians, together with 3200 foreigners, such as Russians, Poles, Dutch, Belgian and French. Treatment there was very bad. The daily work period amounted to 12 hours...The biggest and worst slave-drivers were Decker, the general manager, and Klein, the engineer, both inhabitants of Berlin. They vented their ill-humor on every occasion on the prisoners. They showed no restraint even in respect of the civilian workers, whether German or foreign; it was all the same to these two characters, so that their rancor often spread over to the civilians as well. Both of these gentlemen put a number of foreigners into the concentration camp. If there was any confrontation, they always threatened people with the concentration camp, so that opposition on the part of the working personnel was impossible...The building management for both of these air-raid shelters was in the hands of party members. The building management as such was subordinate to the SS. In charge of it was Obersturmfuhrer Busch...This man personally felled prisoners to the ground. If a civilian worker wanted to take leave, this was refused, so that workers took the law into their own hands, and left work without permission. For this, many of them were put into the labor camp. Among the works management itself, those who particularly distinguished themselves were the senior foreman Brem, who struck prisoners daily with a stout stick, and the two foremen, Bohm and Schroder...Paul Mertens, the senior foreman in this firm...particularly distinguished himself. He harassed and beat prisoners almost to death. His colleagues often asked and urged him to desist. The answer he made was: 'These criminals must work until they drop dead.'...' Very good, with full translations.
Lot 847
F4U CORSAIR CONTROL STICK HANDLE Original, period Vought F4U Corsair control stick handle, bakelite construction approx. 6 in. tall with checkered grip, fitted with a red trigger for firing machine guns and a red button at top serving as a bomb release. The handle is fitted to a green metal pipe which rests upon a decorative wood base. Very good.
Lot 848
F4U CORSAIR CONTROL STICK HANDLE Original, period F4U Corsair control stick handle, bakelite construction approx. 5 in. tall with checkered grip, fitted with a red trigger for firing machine guns, a bomb drop button at top, and a mic switch fitted to the left side. The handle is fitted to a green metal pipe which rests upon a decorative wood base. Very good.
Lot 1064
(1806 - 1876) Confederate brigadier general and Governor of Virginia who sent John Brown to the gallows. He died never accepting amnesty. Fine content A.L.S. 'Henry A. Wise', 3pp. 4to., Washington, May 7, 1842, in which an enraged Wise prompts his friend, future Confederate general Peter Burwell Starke, to give written testimony on his behalf regarding a duel-worthy slight from Edward Stanley. In part: '...Dear Sir, Will you please answer the following interrogatories by giving a full relation of all the facts which came within your observation and knowledge concerning the scene to which they allude: 1st Did you not accompany me from the race field at about the hour of 4 o'clock. P.M. inst? 2nd How were we riding? 3rd Did we not overtake Edward Stanley, of the H. Reps., before arriving at the outer gate of the race track?...7th What occurred between him and myself in the act of overtaking and passing him? 8th How far had we passed him when going through the gate, and how far about the distance of 100 yards? 9th After passing through the gate and getting near a slash of mud and water about 100 yds. or more beyond the gate did he not quicken his pace and ride quickly directly up against my horse, and jostle both the horse and myself against yourself and horse on my right? 10th Did his horse not spatter me very much with mud before he came in contact with me? 11th Did he pass on my left or right hand side? 12th Did he not ride beyond my horse and pass some 10 or 20 steps? 13th Did I not as soon as I recovered my position ride up directly to his left side and strike him with a riding stick? 14th Where did I strike him? 15th Could I have stricken him otherwise than I did, on the back of the head, riding up on his left with a stick in my right hand and both mounted on horse-back, going the same way? 16th What did he do after he was stricken? 17th What did he say? 18th Did I strike him more than once? 19th Was it a severe blow? 20th With what sort of stick? 21st Did the stick break in the blow? 22nd Was there a carriage or a crowd near behind or beside him which caused him to ride up against my horse? 23rd Do you think his riding up against me was accidental or intentional, judging from the circumstances? 24th Was there any intervening object between him and myself which was suddenly moved so as to bring him upon me before he could check his horse? 25th Was it not a plain broad road and had he not abundant room both to see and to pass me without even spattering me with mud? 26th Did he offer any apology for riding up against me until after I struck him? Please add a full statement of any other facts within your knowledge, as to which you are not specially interrogated...'. Countersigned in pencil by P.B. STARKE, noting his receipt of the letter in holograph. Wise famously dueled Richard Coke in 1832 over his Congressional seat; records indicate that Wise and Stanley did indeed prepare to duel in 1842, but their respective seconds managed to avert the fight before it happened. Light, uneven toning and minor folds, very good.
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