SS IM EINSATZ – A Documentation of SS Crimes – Authentic Documents, Photographs, and Facsimiles. Published by the Committee of Anti-Fascist Resistance Fighters in the German Democratic Republic. Published by Kongress, Berlin, 1957 – Original dust jacket.
A collection of horrifying documents and reports that expose, in minute detail, the crimes of the Nazi SS. The book includes excerpts from the protocols of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. It was published at a time when SS groups in West Germany had begun to reorganize and rehabilitate themselves after the war, engaging in Holocaust denial, while some unconvicted war criminals started occupying public positions. The report contains over 300 photographs (many of which are difficult to view) and facsimiles, documenting the SS from its early days at the end of the Weimar Republic, through the pogroms of the “blackshirts, ” to the mass murderers in the concentration camps and occupied territories during World War II. Among the contents: The Nuremberg Trial judgments in full. A detailed description of the Gestapo’s crimes, its structure, and organization. Nazi terror against German internal opponents. Documents and reports on the persecution and extermination of Jews, including the Kristallnacht pogrom, the Final Solution of the Jewish question, and the murder of six million Jews. Detailed reports on atrocities committed at death camps, including Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück, Dachau, Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen, Neuengamme, Auschwitz, and others.Documents and reports on medical experiments performed on prisoners. Evidence of the systematic extermination of the mentally ill, revealing the Nazi “euthanasia program”.
Reports on the plunder of Jewish property in occupied European countries.
The final chapter addresses the SS’s post-war efforts to rehabilitate itself, as well as the dangerous re-entry of its members into key public positions.
646 [6] pages. Hardcover with the original dust jacket, all complete.
