CHEMIN DE CROIX EN 50 STATIONS By Bernard Aldbert, Librairie artheme fayard publisher. Accompanied by 50 illustrations of difficult scenes from the Buchenwald and Mauthausen camps from the memory of the illustrator Aldbert Bernard from his time in the camps [signed in plate]. Paris 1946, the first and rare edition.
The monumental publication of the prisoner from the Buchenwald and Mauthausen camps, published immediately after the war in Paris in 1946, containing 50 drawings of his work from the death camps, which he put on paper in the first days after his release from the camp.
Illustrator Jean-Bernard Albert [1909- 1974], one of the greatest European cartoonists of the 20th century. In 1937 he published his first cartoon, and shortly thereafter published the magazine La de Lyon in Lyon. In November 1943, he was arrested by the Gestapo on charges of caricature in which he painted Hitler as a chimpanzee and was transferred to Buchenwald and later to Mauthausen where he stayed for 18 months. He was released upon rescue of the camp by the Allies, and immediately began to create the series 'Cross at 50 Stations' and within weeks he finished his work. The sketches depict scenes from the life of the camp, which Albert experience himself, including vivid descriptions of the prisoners - arrival in the camp, forced labor, abuse, The struggle for life, The various Nazi torture methods, death, and finally the Allied release. The sketches are accompanied by detailed descriptions of the camp's horror life and Nazi cruelty and include many difficult scenes to watch. His work is considered to be particularly authentic, and one of the most important sources of the atrocities that occurred in the Nazi death camps.
115 p. 27 cm. Front cover detached. Back cover partially detached. Except that, good - very good condition.
