ATROCITES ALLEMANDES - The Horrors of the Germans', A booklet containing 15 hard-to-view photographs documenting the pogroms and murders committed by the Nazis during World War II, most of them in various cities in France. Photo press Liberation Publishing [1945]. Extremely rare.
The folder was published as part of the publication of the atrocities of the Nazis by the Photo Press Liberation Agency, which documented the difficult scenes that were revealed to the Allies at the end of the war. Most of the photographs document the bodies of people who were murdered by the Nazis after torture. Each photograph is depicted on its back in French and English.
Among the photographs that appear: SAVOIE - Douze visages de supplicies parmis tant d'autres - Savoie (province of France) Twelve faces of torture among many others, PAU - Exhumation - Pau (city in France) - burial of corpses. TROYES - Jeunes gens executes sans jugement - Troyes (city in France) - Young people executed without trial, ORADOUR - Village detruit by the SS - Ordur - A village destroyed by the SS - Two rare photographs of the bodies and ruins of the village Sur-Glan 'In response to the French underground's activity in the area, on the night of June 10, 1944, the fourth regiment, called "Der Führer" of the SS division "Das Reich", killed 642 men, women and 205 children, In fact all the villagers, except a few who escaped. 328 homes were then systematically demolished. Fort de VINCENNES - Otages fusilles - a photograph of the hostages shot in the French fortress, and more.
Extremely rare. Not listed in the bibliography, does not appear in the National Library.
Folder: 15x9 cm. Very good condition.
