SS Concentration Camp WHIP

[duska]

Thanks for the thanks Youthcollector1.

As for the whip that started this thread, it Looks more like a French Martinet to me, which was once used to punish children in France.

Although in the 1946 Viking Press book about the 84th Infantry division there is a photo of two PW's in a room full of these identical whips , the caption to this is "In another part of Salzwedel [Konzentrationslager], two former American PW’s inspected the collection of whips used by Nazi guards in a concentration camp. In this camp were 2700 Jewish women from eastern Europe and 300 non-Jewish women, political prisoners from western Europe"

Post war propoganda? Who knows.

[CARL]

Amen. For the life of me, I cannot see why we are still discussing this item after half a decade.

Talk about flogging a dead horse...

Thank you. And on that note, the thread is now closed before we go down paths that should be discovered in other sections of the forum.