Amazon.com has pulled the jigsaw puzzle of Dachau ovens

According to this news article, Amazon has pulled the Dachau jigsaw puzzle from its website after protests.

This quote is from the news article:

The American online retailer Amazon.com has stopped selling a jigsaw puzzle featuring the Dachau Nazi concentration camp following complaints.

The puzzle has 252 parts that together form a picture of the camp. Before it was taken offline Oct. 1, the product description said the toy was intended for customers eight years old and above. It sold for $24.99.

Ovens for burning bodies in the Dachau crematorium

My photograph above shows the two cremation ovens that were in the picture on the puzzle.  This website shows the exact picture of the two ovens that was on the puzzle.  The cremation ovens at Dachau had two sets of doors; the first set of doors opened outward. In my photo above, one of the ovens on the right has a metal inner door, positioned on the brick wall above the outer door; the inner door was dropped down into the oven behind the outer door. The oven on the left has a pulley and a counterweight for raising and lowering an inner door, but the metal door itself is missing.

Dachau oven near the wall in the crematorium

The photo above shows the single oven that is against the wall of the morgue room next door.  Notice the pulley which was used to raise and lower the inner door.  The Dachau Memorial Site tells visitors that the pulleys were used to execute prisoners by hanging them until dead in front of the ovens.

The jigsaw puzzle would have been quite educational for 8-year-old children.  Too bad that it was pulled by Amazon.

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