CAMPS DE MORT - A Photographed Report from the death camps, edited by Irene Gaucher. Paris, 1946. Hard-to-view photo booklet, from the death camps Buchenwald, Nordhausen, Bergen-Belsen, Stutthof, Ravensbruck, Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Mauthausen, and more. Introduction by VERCORS. French. Very rare.
In the editor's introduction he writes that in the first place he did not want to bring hard photographs like the ones brought in the booklet because he himself did not believe the hard stories about the atrocities of death camps told at the end of the war, and even present to discover that more and more people are claiming that the stories of the atrocities that took place in the camps are imaginary: "I did not believe the stories, such cruel crimes ... how could I believe?" Until he saw the difficult scenes in the photographs that were distributed one after the other: "In these nameless photographs, the terrible truth is revealed ..." . He decided to bring the hard photographs as they are, with all the difficulty, in order to show the world the hard truth about the death camps. In the booklet, rare photographs from inside the camps. Some were photographed by the Nazis during the war - mostly of forced laborers and thin prisoners, and some by the Allies after the liberation - this part is very difficult to watch as they photographed bodies, body parts, prisoners who died of starvation and torture, and more. The booklet is divided into chapters with each chapter dedicated to one camp, describing what happened in it and accompanied by photographs depicted next to them. It is one of the first publications to summarize the photographed information, and the evidence accumulated in the first phase about a very wide range of camps set up by the Nazis, at an early stage at the end of the war.
56 p. 28 cm. Very good condition.
