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"You have to forget everything...!" - Hard testimonies from a Dachau camp prisoner - copy with author's dedication. Paris, 1945

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Il faut oublier! - "You have to forget everything...! Poems" - hard testimonies from the daily life in the Dachau camp from the camp prisoner Maurice Delhery, written in the form of a painful lament. Paris, 1945. A copy with a handwritten dedication and signature of the author to Madame Gelery who writes that this is a testimony of a Dachau camp prisoner describing what he himself went through. French.

Morris describes in harsh words the Nazi brutality as he experienced. In a lament called "Dachau", he writes: "Dachau is a death camp... They kill for pleasure, old people, children, women, they show no mercy... Death warrants are registered in the office just like signing a supply slip... The German monster invents new torture every day... one hundred and fifty detainees, completely naked, will be held for two days without being allowed to move...". In another poem he writes: "They treated us as a man would not dare to treat animals... They threw at us hideous dogs whose fangs were red from biting the flesh... They stood and laughed when the cold froze our bones... They murdered Jews with pleasure and handed them over by the thousands to the fire of the incinerator... when we arrived in Dachau we heard: "Here you enter through the door and exit through the chimney... there are crimes that have no reward...", and more.

extremely rare. Does not appear in the world library catalog "world cat".

8 pages. Very good condition.

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97. "You have to forget everything...!" - Hard testimonies from a Dachau camp prisoner - copy with author's dedication. Paris, 1945