St. Valentin

Philatelic Materials

 

General

    St. Valentin is a town in Austria, southeast of Linz. During the war, it was the site of a subcamp of Mauthhausen. The prisoners worked mainly for the Nibelungenwerk tank factory.

Postcard

    Below are thumbnails of the front and back of  a postcard dated January 26, 1945, to an inmate at the St. Valentin camp.  Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Postcard" in the left frame to return.

St_Val_PC_1_1.jpg (80285 bytes)  St_Val_PC_1_2.jpg (80758 bytes)

References

Erik Lordahl, German Concentration Camps 1933-1945, History and Inmate Mail (2000).  Referred to as Lordahl.

Copyright © 2002 Edward Victor