Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books
Item #55047 Mauthausen. Koncentracni Lager smrti. Vzpominky ns léta 1941–42 (Concentration Death Camp. Memories of the Years 1941–42) [WITH THIRTY-FOUR ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS]. Karel Littloch.
Mauthausen. Koncentracni Lager smrti. Vzpominky ns léta 1941–42 (Concentration Death Camp. Memories of the Years 1941–42) [WITH THIRTY-FOUR ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS]
Mauthausen. Koncentracni Lager smrti. Vzpominky ns léta 1941–42 (Concentration Death Camp. Memories of the Years 1941–42) [WITH THIRTY-FOUR ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS]
Mauthausen. Koncentracni Lager smrti. Vzpominky ns léta 1941–42 (Concentration Death Camp. Memories of the Years 1941–42) [WITH THIRTY-FOUR ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS]
Mauthausen. Koncentracni Lager smrti. Vzpominky ns léta 1941–42 (Concentration Death Camp. Memories of the Years 1941–42) [WITH THIRTY-FOUR ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS]
Mauthausen. Koncentracni Lager smrti. Vzpominky ns léta 1941–42 (Concentration Death Camp. Memories of the Years 1941–42) [WITH THIRTY-FOUR ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS]
Mauthausen. Koncentracni Lager smrti. Vzpominky ns léta 1941–42 (Concentration Death Camp. Memories of the Years 1941–42) [WITH THIRTY-FOUR ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS]
Mauthausen. Koncentracni Lager smrti. Vzpominky ns léta 1941–42 (Concentration Death Camp. Memories of the Years 1941–42) [WITH THIRTY-FOUR ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS]
Mauthausen. Koncentracni Lager smrti. Vzpominky ns léta 1941–42 (Concentration Death Camp. Memories of the Years 1941–42) [WITH THIRTY-FOUR ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS]
Mauthausen. Koncentracni Lager smrti. Vzpominky ns léta 1941–42 (Concentration Death Camp. Memories of the Years 1941–42) [WITH THIRTY-FOUR ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS]
Mauthausen. Koncentracni Lager smrti. Vzpominky ns léta 1941–42 (Concentration Death Camp. Memories of the Years 1941–42) [WITH THIRTY-FOUR ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS]

Mauthausen. Koncentracni Lager smrti. Vzpominky ns léta 1941–42 (Concentration Death Camp. Memories of the Years 1941–42) [WITH THIRTY-FOUR ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS]

Prague: Ferd. Horky, 1945. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 132 [1]pp., 4 plates with photographs. Original illustrated tan wraps with black lettering on cover and spine. Publisher's device on title page. Dedication page printed in purple with ruling and publisher's device. Published in memory for those who did not return but did not die in vain. Cover art by Emanuel Pryl.

With thirty-four b/w photographs (5 1/8 x 7 1/8" - four of them duplicates) taken after the liberation of the Mauthausen camp, documenting atrocities committed, freed inmates, camp buildings, the crematorium, fortifications and surrounding areas, the infamous stairway to the quarry, the cemetery, lined-up sarcophagi and various photographs documenting the recovering efforts of liberators. All photographs are stamped on verso: Czechoslovak Press Office Illustration Department. Prague XII, Tr. Mars, Stalina 46. Two of the photographs are the first two photographs included in the publication.

Report by a surviving inmate of the concentration camp Mauthausen to honor a promise inmates made to each other during their captivity: "those who will survive the camp will tell the world of the conditions and horrors experienced," to let the world know what the Germans did and were capable of if they remain a powerful nation. Published to express solidarity with the countless victims of the German camps all over Europe.

The events at Mauthausen seemed exaggerated even to the author when reading his own report. However, in reality the suffering at Mauthausen was much greater than any words can express. The report provides a truthful picture of the suffering that took place. The imagery of horror, bestiality and inflexibility laid out in this report will burden the consciousness of the German nation, despite its high cultural standards.

The nine chapters of the report describe Mauthausen and and its geographical and administrative location, including the road to Mauthausen, the arrival at the camp, the quarantine procedures, followed by three extensive chapters describing life, work and how the prisoners died at Mauthausen. Chapter eight describes the psychological condition of inmates and chapter nine is a conclusive overview of life and death at the camp.

The report is illustrated with four b/w photographs: one showing a model of Mauthausen, giving an overview of the extent of the camp, another of the Mauthausen stone quarry with its infamous stairs, a third photo with scraggy looking inmates and a final photo of a mass grave with the caption: 'how the unfortunate victims of German culture were treated.'

Text in Czech. Wraps and block lightly age-toned. Wraps with some very light wear along edges, very light creasing and minor chips. Second photo plate with very light wear along foredge. Signatures unopened at top edge, some unopened at foredge too. Block uncut at bottom edge. Protected in modern mylar. Very good condition. Item #55047

Price: $3,750.00

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