16 months in Buchenwald, France 1946, limited edition of only 200 copies

16 months in Buchenwald, France 1946, limited edition of only 200 copies

MOIS DE BAGNE BUCHENWALD - DORA N 43.662 - Sixteen months in Buchenwald Dora, published by R. DAUTELLE EPERNAY, France 1946. French.

We had been exhausted for 48 hours, and at about three in the morning the SS man pushed the people like a herd into the tunnel. I had the impression that I was in hell. All along the way were thin bodies. Skeletal beings, with a repulsive gaze, feverish eyes sunken, struggling ... while the beatings do not save the blows ... On April 4, 1945, on the train I left Dora, in a convoy of 100 or 150 cars. This time there was no roof over our heads. The rain and the cold were our constitutional bread. For six days and six nights, the train traveled dangerously and eventually stopped about 10 kilometers from the Bergen-Belsen death camp, and a death march began on the lot. This was the last suffering for many of them, since their departure they were not given bread nor water. I owe my life to Paul Chandon-Mott, who carried me on his shoulder until we saw the US Army advancing toward us ... '.

The monumental diary of Buchenwald prisoner Alfred Untereiner (number 43.662) written during his stay in the camp and a few months after his release. From the first publications published at the end of World War II, describing in detail the Nazi animal behavior in the Buchenwald death camp in the first person. Accompanied by hard photographs from the camp in a way that the Allies found him when they entered.

The journal, which was published at the time, was part of an extensive media coverage that accompanied the publication of the atrocities of Buchenwald in the press in the photographs and in the film's diaries. Reports about the camp were the first exposure of the Western public to the horrors of the Nazi regime in Germany. (General George Patton forced some 2,000 Weimar residents to walk five kilometers to the camp to see for themselves the horrors).

Beyond the filmed and cinematic documentation, an intelligence unit of a psychological warfare unit in the US Army collected many testimonies of prisoners. In the first days of the liberation, some 150 testimonies of prisoners were collected, especially those that filled various functions in the camp and were able to provide a broad picture of what was going on in the camp. 

Limited edition with only 200 copies. The cover illustration showing a German - Jewish prisoner kneeling under the German swastika by R. Chevittin (Signed in Table).

140 [2] p. Photographs and drawings. fine condition.