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Lot 679:
Very interesting period advertisement from the infamous company Topf & Sohne, the designers and makers of many crematoria ovens from most of the infamous German concentration camps in the III Reich, including those from KL Auschwitz II – Birkenau. It’s a old framed paper poster in perfect condition, with a size of 38 x 25 cm. It’s an advertisement about heating and combustion equipments with the last technologies on this matter, and one of the most advanced devices in the world. A leading company. And also a necessary and very participative company in the machinery of the Holocaust!J.A. Topf and Sons (German: J.A. Topf & Sohne) was an engineering company, founded in 1878 in Erfurt, Germany by Johannes Andreas Topf (1816?1891). Originally, it made heating systems and brewing and malting equipment. Later, the company diversified into silos, chimneys, incinerators for burning municipal waste, and crematoria. During World War I it made weapons shells, limbers (carts for carrying artillery) and other military vehicles. In World War II it also made weapons shells and aircraft parts for the Luftwaffe.It is now infamous as the largest of 12 companies that designed and built crematoria ovens for concentration and extermination camps during the Holocaust, planned and carried out by the Nazi regime from 1935 to 1945. The company not only made crematoria ovens, it also made ventilation systems for the gas chambers at Auschwitz II?Birkenau.In addition to Auschwitz and Auschwitz II?Birkenau, Topf & Sohne also built crematoria ovens for Buchenwald, Dachau, Mauthausen-Gusen, Mogilev ghetto, and the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Out of the five ovens at Dachau concentration camp, four were made by H. Kori and one by Topf & Sohne. In all, Topf built 25 crematoria ovens which had a total of 76 incineration chambers (called ‘muffles’) for concentration camps. H. Kori built 42 single chamber ovens at various camps. ***THIS ITEM SHIPS FROM OUR EUROPE OFFICE******This article is sent from our office in Europe**********
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