Niemiecka fabryka śmierci w Lublinie (The German death factory in Lublin)
Moskwa (Moscow): Wydawnictwo Literatury W Jezykach Obcych (Foreign Language Literature Publishers), 1944. First edition. Softcover. 24mo. 38, [2]pp. Original printed wrappers. Publisher's logo to title page.
Originally published on August 12, 1944, in the Soviet daily "Izvestiia," this powerful work is the first Polish-language book edition of the account of the liberation of the Majdanek's Nazi death camp by the Red Army.
Its author, Eugeniusz (Evgenii) Kriger, was a special correspondent for the "Izvestiia" and was among the first Russian troops which liberated the camp on July 22, 1944*. From then on, he witnessed first-hand the atrocities commited by the Nazis and the brutal and inhumane conditions in which the inmates were living.
After the main text are two shorter pieces on the the camp, one by by Polish-Soviet Commission on Majdanek, and the other a statement by Hilmar Moser a German lieutenant general. Illustrated throughout with 8 b/w photographic reproductions of photographs of the camp, including images of the crematorium, human remains and shoes of the victims, as well as reproductions of Moser's written statement. This publication is one of a number of similar works on the same subject by the same publisher in 1944.
Slight soiling and age-toning to wrappers. Text in Polish. Protected by modern mylar. Wrappers in overall good, interior in very good condition. g to vg. Item #40894
* Although the Nazis evacuated the camp, the Soviet advance was so rapid that unlike many other camps, the SS weren’t able to destroy the evidence of their crimes. To this day, Majdanek remains the best preserved testimony to the horrors of the Nazi extermination camps.
Price: $750.00