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Arthur Liebehenschel ss Obersturmturmbann-fuhrer Camp commandant Auschwitz 1 Dec 1943, typed message, signed in purple pencil Liebehenschel..good bold signature of Liebehenschel, and very rare dated 1/12/43…
brief translation/ “Subject: Dental treatment. In the interests of disease prevention, the female prisoners employed in the SS families are treated in the Commander’s Dentistry Station ( SS-district). The treatment times are from Monday to Friday 13:00 Uhr – 14:00 Uhr. Prior to treatment, the female detainees must report to the Chief Inspector Frau Zimmer”. 5×8 in
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Arthur Liebehenschel 25 November 1901 – 24 January 1948) was a commandant at the Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps during World War II. He was convicted of war crimes by the Polish government following the war and executed in 1948.
On 1 December 1943 Liebehenschel was appointed commandant of Auschwitz I Stammlager concentration camp, succeeding Rudolf Höß. He made improvements including removing the standing cells and halting the selections among regular prisoners… When Höß returned to Auschwitz, Liebehenschel was replaced as commandant on 8 May 1944, and appointed commandant of the already emptied Majdanek camp on 19 May 1944, succeeding Martin Gottfried Weiss. The camp was evacuated because of the Soviet advance into the German-occupied Poland
At the war’s end, Liebehenschel was arrested by the U.S Army and was extradited to Poland. After being convicted of crimes against humanity at the Auschwitz Trial in Kraków, he was sentenced to death and subsequently executed by hanging on 24 January 1948.
A RARE HISTORICAL COLLECTOR ITEM