Buchenwald, Landsberg, Nordhausen, Dachau, Belsen, Ordruf - an early photo booklet published by the photography agency that was present in the camps at the time of liberation. Published by OBJECTIF, Paris, 1945.
A chilling and rare booklet documenting 50 harrowing photographs from the death camps on the day of liberation as they were found by the Allied Department of Photography. The first exposure of the horrific scenes revealed to the Allies in eight different death camps on German territory. Uncensored booklet, emotionally difficult to watch. Foreword by Undre Ullmann, text by Jeander and foreword by Undre Ulmann, himself a former Mauthausen camp inmate.
Each group of photographs in the booklet documents horrific scenes from a different death camp in German territory: Buchenwald, Landsberg, Nordhausen, Dachau, Belsen, Ordruf, and others. The booklet contains the photographs as they were taken, without editing that was later made in other publications. One can see both the shocking pictures of the victims (which reveal the enormity of the extermination), and not far from them the survivors in their horrific physical condition, as well as the shock that struck the American soldiers when they were exposed to the terrible sights.
Unlike later publications, the photographs in this booklet are described by the photography agencies themselves, and their description were taken from the mouths of the photographers who were in the camp and saw for themselves the terrible scenes in the hours and days of liberation, and they describe the events that accompanied the events minutes after the photo was taken. For example, there is a photograph of an elderly Jewish man with tuberculosis trying to rise above the ground, and the caption accompanying the photo:
"This prisoner died about 10 minutes after the photo was taken." The margin of another photo showing prisoners walking on their feet reads:
"These prisoners are the only ones in the camp who managed to reach the Red Cross clinic on their own to receive first aid." Another picture revealing masses of prisoners crammed into the barracks reads:
"So were found more than a hundred people cramped in a barrack that was originally intended for thirty prisoners." Another photograph showing an ill prisoner reads:
"A dysentery patient who has gone mad, his identity and personal details are unknown to us." On a shocking photograph showing burning trunks on which bodies were burned is written: "This fire was still burning when the Americans entered the camp, " and more.
Extremely rare. Only three listings in the World Cat Library Catalog, two in libraries in France, and one in the United States Holocaust Museum.
32 p. 27 cm. Very Good Condition.
