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Rare formal silverplate fork from the main dining room at dachau concentration camp. Has the D logo on the front of the handle and on the rear in German-main dining room in the dachau konzlager property of oberbayern standarten 0268 serial no. Also stamped on rear - Wellner patent 90 45. Wellner being a leading german manufacturer of fine silverware. Dachau was Germany’s longest running concentration camp opened in 1933 by Heinrich Himmler until liberated by the Americans in 1945. It was then used by the allies to house SS soldiers awaiting trial until 1948. Following this was a United States military base during the American occupation of Germany until it was closed in 1960. It had a string of notorious commanders including SS obergruppenfuhrer Theodor Eicke who was killed in 1943 when his plane was shot down over Russia.