Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange
Abstract
Front: Off-white paper. Postcard split in half by red printed line. Right side has address written in pencil. Green stamp with a male face on it put on horizontally so that the head is looking up. Black circular Dachau stamp over with the date 22 Sep 33. Red, printed description in German: Konzentrationslager Dachau. with purple \u27Konzentrationslager Dachau gepruft\u27 stamp over it. Back: Handwriting in pencil. Nearly rubbed off in several places. There is a fold horizontally across the postcard, as well as a vertical fold on half of it.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Postcard (type 1) from Jewish inmate Otto Marx with violet two-line censor marking (type C-1), sent to his wife Marta Marx in Weiden with 6 PF stamp tied by Dachau/22/Sep/33 CDs .Dachau was Nazi Germany’s first concentration camp, opened on March 22, 1933, and became under Theodor Eiche a training center for SS guards and the model for other concentration camps.https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1569/thumbnail.jp
