Canteens in KL Auschwitz
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Canteens in KL Auschwitz
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.547243094386/0058
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]11641b
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Oswiecim, Poland
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2018
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp49-74
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
NotesArticle from Auschwitz Studies 29
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
One of the ways that the SS earned signficant profits from the operation of KL Auschwitz was by selling to prisoners a variety of goods and products in camp canteens.Taking over the shops and canteens from SS-Geminschaft Kaminenbetriebe was a particularly successful and profitable venture. In 1943 over a third of the corporation's sales volume came from the sale of merchandise in prisoner's and SS canteens