NEUE Berliner Illustrierte, dated October 1, 1945, The Rare Edition of the newspaper, which shows the Nazi Crimes in a number of photographs and short descriptions.
The Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung ('Berlin newspaper in pictures'), was distributed between 1892 and 1945. The Newspaper that was published once a week on Thursdays, was in fact the most popular newspaper in Europe with a record number of 2 million copies in the early 30s.
In the years under the Third Reich rule, the newspaper was controlled the Nazi Propaganda Office headed by Joseph Goebbels and became one of the most virulent and anti-Semitic newspapers in Europe with regular reports condemning the Jews and the success of the German forces. At the end of the war, the newspaper ceased to exist and in fact split into several sub-newspapers under a similar name. The new edition of the newspaper, now called 'Neue Berliner Illustrierte', actually foreshadowed the end of the Third Reich and the end of the newspaper. The editors gave the post-war news editions a different character and tried to adapt its values to the values of post-war global democracy. The change was made gradually.
One of the rare newspaper editions announcing the change was the edition in which the newspaper exposes Nazi crimes in the death camps. On the title page is a large photograph of the "new face" the first mayor of Berlin after the war - Arthur Victor Hugo Werner, who was appointed by the Soviet government of Berlin under the command of Nikolai Berzarin. His appointment was approved by the Western Allies after the division of the city into four sectors in July 1945 (during the war years he lived as a private person). On the first page there is a photograph of "the people who took the fate of Germany in their hands" - mayors and councilors at a meeting in the "new" post-war Germany. The two middle pages of the newspaper contain photographs from the Buchenwald, Belsen, Majdanek, and Theresienstadt camps in which the crematorium, 'Muslemans' prisoners, the bodies, and the belongings of the victims can be seen. Next to each photograph there is a short description of the "the Nazi intentions" and the photographs that reveal what the editor defines as "the crimes of the Nazis". On the upper left are photographs of two who were known for their cruelty: The Nazi war criminal Irma Grese, who served as a guard at the Auschwitz camp and Josef Kramer, who commanded the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. And who was called by the prisoners of the camp "the beast from Belsen, " who was directly responsible for the deaths of the prisoners. The two were convicted in the "Belsen trial" a month and a half after the publication before us came out on November 17, 1945 and were hanged in Hamelin Prison by Albert Pierrepoint on December 13, 1945.
[16] p. - Complete Issue. 37 cm. light tears in the margins of the title page (restored). The title page is partially detached from the back of the newspaper. Good Condition.
