This is a multi-tailed leather whip with a wooden handle. The handle is stamped with “K.L.” and “383”. K.L. stands for Konzentrationslager, German for “concentration camp”.Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp in Bavaria, Germany, operational from 1938 to 1945. The number 383 was likely an inventory or catalog number used by the camp. Objects like this were used by SS guards as a punishment tool. Today they are treated as historical evidence related to the Holocaust and WWII.
