I offer for sale this WWII German forced labor camp prisoner’s ID card / factory entry pass + commemorative ring. Card was issued during the last weeks of the war to a Jewish Hungarian slave worker. Asking $200 shipped anywhere. PayPal accepted. CAMP HALLEIN Hallein is a town in the Austrian state of Salzburg. Hallein was the site of a work camp annex to the Dachau concentration camp. Satellite camps under the authority of Dachau were established in the summer and autumn of 1944 near armaments factories throughout southern Germany to increase war production. Dachau alone had more than 30 large subcamps, and hundreds of smaller ones, in which over 30,000 prisoners worked almost exclusively on armaments. Overall, the Dachau concentration camp system included 123 sub-camps and Kommandos which were set up in 1943 when factories were built near the main camp to make use of forced labor of the Dachau prisoners. The Hallein camp was first a Nazi slave labor camp, then held Germans taken prisoner by Americans at the end of the war The commonly used description of Hallein as "a work camp annex to the Dachau concentration camp" appears to have been used first in the book The Girl from Sighet by Hindi Rothbart, P'nenah Goldstein, the story of a DP family that went through Hallein. Hallein as a Nazi labor camp does get some mention in various books including Against all hope: resistance in the Nazi concentration camps, 1938-1945. While Hallein was called a "work annex" to Dachau, a more proper term would be forced or slave labor camp. It was one of 95 "subcamps" associated with the Dachau concentration camp complex and Hallein itself appears on lists of Nazi concentration camps. We do know that the Hallein salt caves were used by the Nazis to store records of Himmler's "medical experiments" on concentration camp inmates and to store thousands of artworks looted under Goering. It could be imagined that the inmates of the Hallein camp worked in those caves. Swiss members of the Waffen SS were sent to Hallein for special training as part of a Nazi plan to set up an SS police corps for the takeover of Switzerland (from The Swiss and the Nazis - by Stephen P. Halbrook). While Hallein is a bit of an historical footnote compared to such infamous concentration camps as Dachau, there are few artifacts from it and the literally thousands of other labor camps that operated in Germany and Nazi-occupied lands and, as such, a scale model of the Hallein camp is a part of world history and especially Holocaust history. Hallein was originally established as a base for mountain troops, the Mountain Troops Training and Replacement Battalion (Gebirgsjager Ausbiklungs Ersatzbataillon) No 6, which also accommodated wounded soldiers. From June 1943, or at least certainly from September of that year, around 30 male prisoners were brought to the site from Dachau. They were accommodated in wooden barracks in the quarry and were employed by the Bauleitung der Waffen SS und Polizei (Waffen SS and Police Building Administration). The number of prisoners was subsequently increased to 90 persons. The camp was enclosed by wire and towers and a second barracks was built for the SS guards. The prisoners constructed a shooting range and area for close quarter battle training. However, in the main, they were used for forced labor in the quarry and in the town and on surrounding farms. Difficult working conditions and poor food made more of the prisoners incapable of work, and this led to repeated random murders of prisoners by the guards. In April 1945 there were still 55 prisoners remaining in the camp, but they were no longer required to work. Finally, thanks to negotiations from the townsfolk, the prisoners were allowed to leave and lived in empty barracks in the town. The camp was finally liberated by the 242nd US Infantry and initially used to house German PoWs. Face of the card bears the following information: Lagerkeller Hallein Ausweis 41175 / ID number zu Betreten / Entry pass gültig bis Widerruf / valid until revoked Zuname / Last name: Matlák Vorname / First name: Sándor geboren am / Born on: 29. January 1923. Staatszuhörigkeit: Ungar / Nationality: Hungarian Sonderstelle / Special location Umstehende Bedingungen erkenne ich an. / I accept the following conditions. Hallein, den 27. March, 1945. Unterschrift / Signature. Reverse reads: Dieser Ausweis ist nicht übertragbar, vom Inhaber stets bei sich zu führen und beim Passieren der Eingänge unaufgefordert vorzuzeigen, Inhaber ist nur zum Betreten der umstehend angegebenen Gebäude berechtigt. Der Ausweis bleibt Eigentum des Betriebes und ist beim endgültigen Verlassen des Betriebes bei der Sonderstelle abzugeben. Verlust des Ausweises muß sofort der Sonderstelle gemeldet werden. Vorschußverpflegt This translates to: This ID card is non-transferable. It must be carried by the holder at all times and presented without request when passing through the entrances. The holder is only authorized to enter the buildings listed below. The ID card remains the property of the establishment and must be returned to the special office upon final departure. Loss of the ID card must be reported immediately to the special office. The ID card is accompanied by a ring which bears barbed wire motifs. There is no information available on the ring. It may be a former prisoners’ association ring or some kind of a keepsake. It comes from the same estate.