Two issues of the French newspaper "Match" revealing and reporting for the first time on the Nazi death camps that were established in Germany at the beginning of the war - first photographs of Jewish and "political" prisoners who were taken to the camps on charges of opposing the Nazi regime - September 1939, and January 1940.
* Match issue date September 7, 1939. In the middle pages, for the first time exposure photos of prisoners in the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps in Nazi Germany. Photographs of prisoners doing forced labor under the supervision of Nazi soldiers. The article reads: "...Jews work like slaves in the concentration camps of the Third Reich. The largest is Dachau, and the most evil is Buchenwald... Anyone who does not surrender is considered an enemy of the nation and punished mercilessly. The lightest punishment is twenty-five beatings... The 'lawbreakers' are forced to stay awake for 17 hours... political prisoners dressed in clothes with red stripes... Jews dressed in clothes with black stripes... out of a group of 2000 detainees, 110 died in the first weeks of detention. Barbed wire, charged with electric current surrounds the camps. No one can dream of crossing them without risking death...".
In one of the photos, prisoners are seen standing in front of a shack with a large sign on which it was written: "Obedience, honesty, order, cleanliness... these are the paths that will lead you to freedom", another photograph in which prisoners are seen doing digging work is described: "The prisoners must work quietly, they are not allowed to say a word". in another photograph a prisoner is seen carrying bricks on his shoulders and the caption: "The camp's slogan: A pack of bricks is much lighter than the weight of the crime", or "When you pour concrete you don't have criminal thoughts in your mind".
* Match issue date January 11, 1940. "Today we publish for the first time the regulations of the German concentration camps." In this issue for the first time were revealed the laws established inside the concentration camps as found by a prisoner who escaped from the Estrogen camp (which was established by the Germans in 1935) shortly before the start of the war, as well as rare photographs from inside the camp. Among the "laws" drawn up by the Germans and were revealed here for the first time were written the goals of the concentration camp - "The prisoner will have enough time to reflect on the reasons that brought him to the concentration camp, he will have the opportunity to recognize the benefits of the Nazi regime unless he prefers to die for the undeclared goals of the Jewish-Marxist International... the heads of the new prisoners arriving at the camp will be completely shaved, prisoners carrying diseases must declare this immediately upon arrival at the camp", and more. Among other things, there is a photograph in which prisoners are seen in civilian clothes and the description: "Prisoners arrive at the camp, they will change into their civilian clothes", a line of shocked prisoners standing in line for the first time, a photograph of an SS soldier standing guard near the camp gate, a horrifying photograph in which a prisoner in the Orneenburg concentration camp is seen being thrown from a truck Upon his arrival at the camp, forced laborers, and a difficult photograph showing a prisoner who died of exhaustion.
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