SS ESTONIAN GUARD DOG-TAG & SS GUARD BARRACKS ARTIFACTS

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KLOOGA CONCENTRATION CAMP ARTIFACTSThe seller spent a week in October 2006 metal-detecting WW II battlefields in Estonia. One day was spent visiting the site of the infamous Klooga Concentration Camp established in September 1943 and was overrun by Soviet troops September 28, 1944. See accompanying photographs.The camp held up to 3,000 male and female prisoners, the overwhelming majority were Jews, while a small number of Soviet POW's along with political prisoners, criminals, and homosexuals were also included among the 3,000. The guard staff consisted of German Elite units and the 287 th Estonian police battalion.In September of 1944 over 2,000 prisoners were executed by German elite troops and Estonian police.The entire camp was enclosed by barb wire and prisoners were forced to work peat harvesting as well as in the camp cement works, and other forced labor projects.The remnants of an SS-Estonian Police barracks located beyond the camp proper was metal-detected and offered to the highest bidder are three recovered items: An ultra-rare ESTN SICH GR. 186524This is a ½ SS Estonian Guard's dog-tag . The seller has never seen these prior to the detected finds at the guard's barracks this past October. This dog-tag is considered as rare as a Gestapo Identity Disc. The seller is keeping one other complete Estonian SS dog-tag/other artifacts read more

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