Incredibly detailed pair of retained carbon copies of prisoners' statements, likely collected for use at the Nuremberg Trials ca. 1946, each providing frightening details of the horrific conditions at the Nuengamme and Behndorf/Helmstedt concentration camps, and the atrocities committed there. INCLUDES: a statement submitted by four named Polish prisoners, 1p. 4to., in part: '...SS Unterscharfuhrer Dreimann...was designated as the fiend of Neuengamme. He exercised, during the period from mid-May 1943 onwards, a rule of terror among the prisoners which cannot be described here in words. We, the undersigned witnesses, give the following information and some examples of his behaviour and actions...The beatings or brutal whippings which were carried out in the block commander's room were, in every case, the result of orders from him. He himself took a sufficient personal part in them for it to be established, at the outset, that Dreimann was a sadist, a person with overwhelming perversions who, unmoved by any human feelings, has exercised at full capacity his violent passions and brutal treatment on the defenseless prisoners. Dreimann's speciality lay in his predilection for kicking prisoners ruthlessly in the belly, the testicles or the shins. With the whip, he normally struck people across the face or on the head. He did it in such a savage manner that the person struck was no longer recognizable as a human being. These beatings with stick or whip were ordered by him for the most trivial offences, or were actually carried out by him. Dreimann had the chief responsibility for the executions which were carried out in the bunker. Here Dreimann went so far on his own authority that he carried out hangings of his own free choice, and without bothering about the victims' nationality...prisoners who had attempted to escape or had done bad work, which he treated as sabotage, and accordingly handed over those concerned to be hanged. He went so far as to subject prisoners who were to be hanged to 4 or 5 days starvation beforehand. Dreimann was the executioner of Neuengamme...[he] dealt personally with the hanging of over 80 Netherlanders who had taken part in the resistance movement in Holland. Dreimann forced the Netherlanders in turn to hang each other and to take the bodies down. In addition, there is to be put to his account the hanging of a group of Czech nationals, who were brought into the camp as alleged resistance fighters. The murder of Russian prisoners-of-war who had absconded from a P.0.W.camp was also his doing; he lent a hand in ruthlessly hanging them. in 1944, 400-500 Hungarian Jews were delivered to the camp. In the space of a couple of months;, over half the numbers in this particular train load were annihilated. Here Dreimann approached the individual working groups personally, in order to give instructions himself as to how they were to be wiped out. Very few of these Jews are still alive...He took the possessions of prisoners which were of personal interest to himself, in order to keep them for his own purposes above all, precious stones, gold, tobacco and good soap, etc...as he roamed through the blocks and sought out prisoners...over any triviality, to thrash them in an inhuman fashion...' Ragged top margin not affecting content; WITH: a similar statement from prisoner 'E. Bosch', held at Behndorf/Helmstedt concentration camp, 1p. 14to., in part: '...on the I.B.N. company, formerly the Ascania Works [Berlin]...There worked at the I.B.N. factory 200 male prisoners, 2000 women prisoners and 800 German civilians, together with 3200 foreigners, such as Russians, Poles, Dutch, Belgian and French. Treatment there was very bad. The daily work period amounted to 12 hours...The biggest and worst slave-drivers were Decker, the general manager, and Klein, the engineer, both inhabitants of Berlin. They vented their ill-humor on every occasion on the prisoners. They showed no restraint even in respect of the civilian workers, whether German or foreign; it was all the same to these two characters, so that their rancor often spread over to the civilians as well. Both of these gentlemen put a number of foreigners into the concentration camp. If there was any confrontation, they always threatened people with the concentration camp, so that opposition on the part of the working personnel was impossible...The building management for both of these air-raid shelters was in the hands of party members. The building management as such was subordinate to the SS. In charge of it was Obersturmfuhrer Busch...This man personally felled prisoners to the ground. If a civilian worker wanted to take leave, this was refused, so that workers took the law into their own hands, and left work without permission. For this, many of them were put into the labor camp. Among the works management itself, those who particularly distinguished themselves were the senior foreman Brem, who struck prisoners daily with a stout stick, and the two foremen, Bohm and Schroder...Paul Mertens, the senior foreman in this firm...particularly distinguished himself. He harassed and beat prisoners almost to death. His colleagues often asked and urged him to desist. The answer he made was: 'These criminals must work until they drop dead.'...' Very good, with full translations.