Mauthausen
Praha [Prague]: Vydává KSC Kraj, [ca. 1945]. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. 2 leaves, [2] 52pp [2]. Original brown quarter cloth over beige paper boards with brown lettering on cover, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket. Beige endpapers. Graphic account of Mauthausen concentration camp, published shortly after the camp was liberated by the US Army in 1945. Graphic design by Zdenek Rossmann. An early post-Holocaust publication showing the horror of the Austrian concentration camp Mauthausen-Gusen.
Profusely illustrated with 86 b/w photographic reproductions in gravure. Numerous of them are shocking images, showing the camp grounds with barracks, guard towers, torture devices, gas chamber, crematorium, ovens, barely alive & dead prisoners, inmates at work in the quarries, the camp and its surroundings, including the town of Mauthausen. A few other images show Himmler, Kaltenbrunner and camp commandant Ziereis with entourage inspecting the camp. The last two photographs depict Czech Army General Ludvika Svobody and Minister Svoboda at a memorial service at the camp after the liberation. Photographs by "Fotosekce Sekretariatu KSC Praha a z Mauthausenskeho Archivu."
Text in Czech.
Binding with light stains to covers. Interior covers and endpapers age toned. Gutters reinforced with japan tissue. Interior rear gutter with remnants of tape, used to previously reinforce. Title page with minor age toning and stains. Interior, including all images and text otherwise clean. Binding in good+, interior in very good- condition overall. Protected in modern mylar. Scarce. g+ to vg-. Item #55714
Price: $750.00