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This document is a variation of the post control card. Most of the post control cards preserved in the Arolsen Archives come from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. On some of these post control cards, an entry in the Block field in the upper right corner indicates the sub-camp where the person was detained. An M2E stamp in this field stands for the Ellrich-Juliushütte sub-camp (Mittelbau 2 Ellrich), while M3H stands for the sub-camp in Harzungen (Mittelbau 3 Harzungen). Some of the names are also more or less written out in full, e.g. “Kl. Bodungen” for the sub-camp in Kleinbodungen or “Boehlke Ndhsn” for the Boelcke barracks in Nordhausen. The fact that a prisoner was taken from one sub-camp to another is indicated by a crossed-out abbreviation. An overview of all the sub-camps of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp can be found here.

This document is a variation of the post control card. Most of the post control cards preserved in the Arolsen Archives come from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. On some of these post control cards, an entry in the Block field in the upper right corner indicates the sub-camp where the person was detained. An M2E stamp in this field stands for the Ellrich-Juliushütte sub-camp (Mittelbau 2 Ellrich), while M3H stands for the sub-camp in Harzungen (Mittelbau 3 Harzungen). Some of the names are also more or less written out in full, e.g. “Kl. Bodungen” for the sub-camp in Kleinbodungen or “Boehlke Ndhsn” for the Boelcke barracks in Nordhausen. The fact that a prisoner was taken from one sub-camp to another is indicated by a crossed-out abbreviation. An overview of all the sub-camps of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp can be found here.

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  • What are considered variations in the e-Guide?

    The e-Guide distinguishes between main cards and variations. The reason for this is that there are sometimes different versions of a single type of document that can vary significantly.

    The documents referred to as main cards in the e-Guide are standard documents that were used especially frequently in concentration camps, DP camps, and for the registration of forced laborers, and about which a good deal of information is available. The Arolsen Archives also hold variations of these documents, however, which served the exact same purpose as the corresponding main cards, but which look different. There are various reasons for this: Some camps used their own individually produced cards instead of the standard versions. In many other cases, individual cards and forms were used before the introduction of standardized pre-printed forms.

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