Streiflichter aus Hinzert, Natzweiler, Buchenwald by Pierre Biermann, published by “Volksstimme” – Early prisoner testimonies about the events in the concentration camps in Germany – Hinzert, Natzweiler, and Buchenwald. Luxembourg [1945] – First Edition. German. Rare.
Hinzert – A concentration camp established in 1939 near the Hunsrück mountains in western Germany, which was used to imprison 13,600 political prisoners aged 18 to 80. In this publication, there are testimonies about the executioner Brendel, prisoners who were forced to stand naked for 100 hours while being beaten with clubs, severe torture of prisoners in the camp, and more.
Regarding the Natzweiler camp, one of the prisoners provides a detailed report about the torture of resistance fighters upon their arrival at the camp by SS men, the cruelty of the kapos, executions of prisoners as punishment for “minor” violations of camp rules, the cruelty of the camp commanders who constantly invented new methods of torture, various methods of killing, and more.
Additionally, in the testimony about the events in the Buchenwald death camp, a former prisoner describes the horrific experiments conducted on the camp’s prisoners, escape attempts, public executions, and especially the final days in the camp before liberation by the Allies as the Nazis gradually lost control of the camp.
44 [4] pages. A tear at the corner of the back cover. Good condition.
