TENTOONSTELLING VAN FOTOGRAFISCHE VAN DUITSE ONCENTRATIEKAMPEN EN VERWOEST ARNHEM – Exhibition of Photographs of German Concentration Camps and Destroyed Arnhem. A booklet of harsh photos from the death camps, taken by the Allies upon their liberation – U.S. Information Service, Photography Section U.S.I.S., Amsterdam, [1945]. Dutch.
A booklet containing 78 harsh photographs of the horrors discovered by Allied soldiers upon the liberation of the death camps. The photographs include: corpses of prisoners who died during the death march in Dachau, train cars filled with piles of bodies as found by soldiers of the U.S. Seventh Army near Dachau, liberated forced laborers in their sleeping barracks, prisoners in the camp wrapped in blankets next to the bodies of their deceased comrades, prisoners too weak to move lying among the dead, prisoners in Ebensee trying to stand on their feet, bodies of forced laborers who died of starvation, Major John Scott showing Colonel Sears clear evidence that people died as a result of abuse, victims of Oradour-sur-Glane, General Eisenhower and a group of senior American officers viewing the bodies of Russian and Polish prisoners who were shot by the Nazis before their retreat from the Ohrdruf camp, bodies of prisoners in the Nordhausen camp, bodies of Jews who perished in the gas chambers in Gusen, Peter Planikov – the sole survivor of a mass execution watching the bodies of his former comrades after being retrieved from temporary graves, a military doctor from the Ninth Army investigating cases of malnutrition in a clinic, a prisoner dressed in prison rags, exhausted prisoners too weak to stand on their feet on the day of liberation, and more.
Rare. Only a few copies are listed in the world library catalog WorldCat.
32 pages. Light stains on the cover. Good condition.
