SA DEPOSITION AU PROCES NUREMBERG - Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier accuse... - Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier's testimony at the Nuremberg Trials - A transcript of the testimony of resistance fighter Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier [1912-1996], at the Nuremberg Trials, as delivered in the session on Monday, January 28, 1946.
The chilling testimony of Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier in the Nuremberg trials about the months she spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz and Ravensbrück after being arrested by the Gestapo. In addition to her personal testimony, which includes a detailed account of the route she took since her arrest, she describes the horrors of the camp in great detail - the medical experiments conducted by the Nazis on prisoners, the various ways in which the Nazis mainly targeted Jewish women, the atrocities committed by the Nazis against babies born in the camp, a horrifying description of the various types of punishments inflicted by the Nazis on prisoners, and more.
Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier [1912-1996] was a photojournalist, a member of the French Resistance during World War II, and later a French politician. Before the war, Marie-Claude was the first editor of Vogue in Paris. As a German-speaking photojournalist, she traveled to Germany in 1933 after Hitler came to power. Even then, she reported on what was happening in the Oranienburg and Ravensbrück camps before being arrested by the Gestapo and sent back to France. During the war, she was a member of the Resistance movement and produced secret publications such as the l'Université Libre newsletter, which first came out in November 1940, the Or (Blood and Gold) booklet by Georges Politzer that presented the theories of the Nazi theoretician Alfred Rosenberg (November 1941), and a clandestine edition of L'Humanité together with Pierre Villon (her second husband, whom she married in 1949). Marie-Claude was arrested in the trap set by the French police on February 9, 1942, along with other Resistance activists, including Jacques Decour, Georges Politzer, Jacques Solomon, and Arthur Dallidet. All of them, except for her, were shot by the Nazis in Fort Mont-Valérien. She was imprisoned and then sent to Auschwitz on January 24, 1943, along with another 230 women, only 49 of whom returned from the camps after the war. In Auschwitz, where she stayed for 18 months, she witnessed the murder of Jews and was a member of the international underground resistance in the camp. In August 1944, she was transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Finally, she was released on April 30, 1945, by the Red Army. After the war, for several weeks, she cared for the sick and was nicknamed "the Holy Angel" because of her extensive aid. She was a member of the French Parliament for many years after the war.
31 p. 20 cm. Good condition.
