Auschwitz Guards' Homemade Tattoo stamps

My skins crawling just looking at the pics.
"They could almost be mistaken for innocent trinkets, but these small metal stamps were used to facilitate one of history's most appalling crimes.
The interchangeable pieces were inserted into a special metal stamps and used by Nazi SS guards to tattoo prisoners' ID numbers at the Auschwitz death camp.
But knowledge of their use could easily have been lost to time, as the Nazis, constantly looking to streamline the business of murder, soon replaced them with a quicker and more efficient system.





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The loathsome devices are set to go on display at the Auschwitz Museum in Oswiecim, Poland, where they will form part of a new collection.
When prisoners first began to arrive at Auschwitz in occupied Poland in 1940 they were each issued with an identification number.
At first these numbers were stamped onto pieces of cloth which the prisoners were ordered to sew onto their clothing.





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But prisoners would often replace their old worn-out clothes with those of others who had died causing an unacceptable amount of confusion among the German prison guards.

So the Nazis decided to start using tattoos instead. The stamps were originally thought to be the fastest method as they allowed the number to be applied in a single stroke.
At first, the tattoos were applied to their left breast. The stamp perforated the skin, and ink was rubbed into the wounds producing a tattoo."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578422/The-evil-looking-implements-used-Auschwitz-guards-tattoo-numbers-prisoners-held-Nazi-death-camp.html#ixzz2vht11Z1N