Can anyone tell me what this thing is? Is it some kind of torture device, or what?
Don’t know. What concentration camp?
Weird!!!
I doubt that it’s anything sinister, actually. Could it be part of a stove shown? Heating system?
It does look as though it might have been some kind of rugged protection for a metal stove/heater - firebox in the enclosed part, flue in the upright part, maybe some sort of hotplate or radiator on top of the middle section.