Softcover.

"Allied Forces – German Concentration and Prisoner-of-War Camps: What the American and British Armies Found, April 1945"

"In this booklet are shown some of the things that have recently come to light in Germany. You will look at this booklet with shock and disgust. For years, German opponents of the Nazis reported to the world about the German concentration camps (the first was set up 12 years ago). Many people did not want to believe that things there were really as bad as the stories told. Now the whole world knows. There reigned the Nazi spirit of cruelty, rape, and subjugation — and it was this spirit that finally moved a world, initially reluctant, to crush the Germany that strove for world domination.

No one considers all Germans to be Nazis. No one claims that all Germans committed the terrible crimes shown here in pictures. But people are responsible for the society in which they live. The German people enabled the Nazis to take power. They supported the Nazis and cheered their short-lived triumphs. Only a few — and most of them are dead — actively resisted the regime. Even the criminally negligent, those who abet a crime, and even the passive bystander — they all share part of the responsibility, not just the perpetrators themselves.

Because of such atrocities, which form part of the greater tragedy of the war itself, the world is determined never again to allow Germany to become so powerful that it could commit such cruelties. It will take years for the German people to prove that they have turned away from the spirit capable of such deeds; only then can they be readmitted into the circle of civilized nations. The late President Roosevelt said: “The Germans must earn their way back into the fellowship of peace-loving and law-abiding nations.”

... This is a collection of documents. It bears witness to the treatment of people in Dachau, Buchenwald, Belsen, and other camps in Germany, as ordered and carried out by German government agencies. The victims were prisoners of war, political detainees, and people who were held simply because of their race, nationality, or creed. Among these victims were also American soldiers who had fallen into captivity. The rapid advance of the armies in the West brought these camps into Allied hands before the existing conditions could be hidden or altered. Most of this material was recorded by American and British war correspondents. We see starved prisoners who died too quickly to be buried or cremated before witnesses could arrive; the faces and bodies of prisoners in the final stages of starvation; the clubs used to beat prisoners, and the victims who received these blows; the gallows, the crematoriums, the overcrowded rooms where the prisoners lived; the well-fed and muscular camp guards. Thousands of prisoners not yet killed bear witness to the treatment they received at German hands."

Pages: 32
Place: Deutschland/Österreich
Year: 1945
Publisher: Selbstverlag
Size: 24 x 34 cm (approx.)

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