Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Crimes Nazis (Le Magazine de France. Numero Special) [NAZI CRIMES]

Grappin, Pierre; Robert d'Harcourt; Maurice Negro; et all

Paris: [S.N.P.], 1945. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 46pp. [2]. Photo-illustrated wrappers, with red and white lettering on the covers. This special issue of the Le Magazine de France, is a post war expose of Nazi war crimes and was issued in conjunction with the exhibition "Crimes Hitlériens"*. The striking cover image was taken by well known French photojournalist Eric Schwab (1910–1977).

The work is profusely illustrated throughout with powerful and shocking b/w images, finely printed in photogravure. Text throughout is comprised of numerous articles on a variety of subjects ranging from the history and internal politics of the Nazi party, to details of the Holocaust, concentration camps, and other war crimes, Nazi ideology, anti-Semitism, Nazi art theft, and the Vichy government. Contributors include German-language scholar Pierre Grappin (1915-1997), French Catholic intellectual and anti-Nazi polemicist Robert d'Harcourt (1881-1965), journalist Maurice Nègre (1901-1985), French politician and former resistance fighter Paul Coste-Floret (1911-1979) and some of the organizers of the exhibition including Jules Paoli and Jacques Billiet. Also included firsthand accounts and declarations from French resistance fighters Paul Teitgen, Georges-Augustin Bidault, Jacques Soustelle and Henri Frenay Sandoval, as well as illustrations and maps.

Text in French.

Wrappers with some light rubbing and/or chipping to extremities. Light vertical folding creases to the front and back covers. Book block is quite loose, but still attached at the staple. Age toning to pages, with images clean and vibrant. Wrappers in good+, interior in very good+ condition overall. Wrappers protected in modern mylar. Scarce. Item #48888

*In June of 1945 the French government mounted the exhibition "Crimes Hitlériens" to expose the French public to the true horrors of the Nazi regime. The exhibition was a massive endeavor, filling 29 rooms of the Grand Palais in Paris, including recreations of concentration camp boxcars and a crematorium. Like this special issue, the exhibition also contained information about the crimes and collaboration of the Vichy government.

Price: $950.00