1941 POLISH 100 ZLOTYCH Banknote WWII LUBLIN CONCENTRATION GHETTO STAMPED

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Rare!!!!! 1941 POLISH 100 ZLOTYCH Banknote WWII LUBLIN CONCENTRATION GHETTO STAMPED Please note this banknote may have traces of blood on it! if this is a problem please do not bid.. thank you The Lublin concentration camp received its more widely known nickname “Majdanek” (“Little Majdan”) due to its proximity to the Majdan Tatarski suburb of Lublin, the capital of the Lublin District in the so-called Generalgouvernement (that part of German-occupied Poland not directly annexed to Germany, attached to German East Prussia or incorporated into the German-occupied Soviet Union). The camp was located three miles east southeast of Lublin on the road that led to Chelm. On a visit to Lublin on July 20-21, 1941, four weeks after the invasion of the Soviet Union, SS chief Heinrich Himmler ordered the SS and Police Leader for District Lublin, SS Major General Odilo Globocnik, to establish a large concentration camp in Lublin with the capacity to hold up to 50,000 prisoners. The purpose of the camp was to provide forced laborers to work on construction projects for proposed SS and police bases throughout eastern Poland and the occupied Soviet Union. These facilities were intended to be militarized and industrialized agricultural complexes around which permanent German settlements in eastern Europe would grow and expand, after the Germans read more

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