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Behind Nazi barbed wire - a photo booklet from the death camps. Denmark, 1945 - First Edition

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01.29.2024 07:00am

Bag nazisternes pigtraad: Buchenwalde, Dachau, Belzen, Flossenburg. Behind the Nazi Wire: Buchenwald, Dachau, Belsen, Flossenburg - booklet of harsh photographs from the camps. Published by WINTHERS FORLAG, Denmark, 1945.

Booklet of photographs from the Buchenwald, Dachau, Belsen, Flossenburg death camps published by the Allied Committee for the Investigation of War Crimes. 28 photographs (two photos per page) of survivors in poor physical condition alongside camp victim corpses. "When one thinks that each prisoner shown has family, one can understand the hatred that will pursue the German people for generations...This book is living proof of the indelible stain on the German nation" (from the introduction). The cover features a camp prisoner as found by Allied forces, with note "forbidden to sell to persons under 18" due to the harsh photos.

Rare. Only three copies listed in world cat library catalog.

[14] p. 22 cm. Very good condition.

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130. Behind Nazi barbed wire - a photo booklet from the death camps. Denmark, 1945 - First Edition