BUCHENWALD-DORE - VISIONS DE BAGNES by Jules bouvet. Alencon (France), 1945. First edition. From the early exposures of the Buchenwald horrors, accompanied by difficult-to-view photographs.
First-hand testimony from Buchenwald camp inmate Jules bouvet about two years he was an inmate in the camp. bouvet was a teacher at the Saint - Le Gare school in France were he was arrested by the Gestapo in the middle of a Classroom lesson in October 1943. In an interrogation carried out by Gestapo, he was asked if he was 'in favor Germany' or 'against Germany', he replied 'I am in favor of France', At that moment he was arrested. On the same day, a German plane was shot down by the French army, and this was a reason for the Gestapo to torture him severely. From there he was sent to Buchenwald, where he stayed for almost two years. In this testimony published a few months after the liberation of the camp, he recounts his horrific story as a forced laborer in the quarry near the camp, revealing precise details about the camp's structure, Nazi methods of operation, various torture methods, their daily executions he witnessed, The efforts to survive when his comrades fall one after the other, and finally liberation, and how he escapes the death march.
66 [1] p. 19 cm. Good condition.
