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2024-12-16 12:02:59 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: C5F40D3F633677F3B8BB8FFE6F9013503890D073046A5B68055E3F921BFF5EB7
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Nazis coerced prisoners to write postcards as propaganda in “Operation Mail” (Briefaktion des RSHA) to spread disinformation about their welfare and obscure atrocities. Auschwitz was both a slave labor and extermination camp—those unfit to work were immediately murdered. https://stamps.org/news/c/collecting-insights/cat/stamps-in-history/post/postal-cards-to-nazi-labor-camps https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash_briefaktion/ https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn522111?rsc=35529&cv=0&x=1356&y=967&z=3.7e-4
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