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• This undated photo provided by the Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation shows the only recorded example of the censor mark of the International Military Tribunal (IMT) on this Dec. 11, 1945 postal card addressed to former German Air Force officer and University of Strasbourg Professor, Dr. Eugen von Haagen, a Nazi war criminal on trial after the war at Nuremberg, Germany.
• This photo provided by the Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation shows an example of a counterfeit 10 pound denomination Bank of England paper money, created by slave laborers at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during the Nazis' "Operation Bernhard."
• This photo provided by the Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation shows a Sept. 3, 1941 registered letter sent from Vienna to Innsbruck, Austria with a return receipt forwarded to the Oranienburg concentration camp near Berlin, Germany where the intended recipient had been moved, then signed and stamped by a Nazi guard on Sept. 6.
• This undated photo provided by the Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation shows a torn fragment of a hand-written Hebrew parchment from a Bible scroll (Tanakh), pillaged from a Russian synagogue and used by a German soldier to wrap a parcel mailed from Russia to Austria in 1942.
• This photo provided by the Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation shows a postcard dated Sept. 6, 1933. The pre-printed text reads: "CONCENTRATION CAMP DACHAU, Excerpt from Camp Regulations, Prisoners may receive one package with up to ten pounds of laundry per month (foodstuffs, tobacco items, etc. excluded) likewise one letter and one card. Violations result in rejection (of the letter, card or package). Oral authorization is not permitted. The Camp Commander.”