The Nazi Concentration Camp System – The Death Machine: How the Nazi Extermination System Operated – An Important ...

The Nazi Concentration Camp System – The Death Machine: How the Nazi Extermination System Operated – An Important Publication

“It is the absolute right and sacred duty of the superior race to rule over and command the inferior races. The former is, therefore, the race of masters, and the others are races of slaves…”.

Le Système Concentrationnaire Nazi – The Nazi Concentration Camp System by Georges Wellers. A significant publication that documents in detail how the Nazi extermination system operated - from the racial ideology itself to its actual implementation in an industrialized machinery of murder unprecedented in human history. Published by UNADIF (Union Nationale des Déportés, Internés et Familles de Disparus) - the National Union of Deported, Interned, and Families of the Missing in France - with the organization’s ink stamp on the title page. Alençon (Orne, France), 1965 – First edition. In French. Extremely rare.

Important findings compiled by Georges Wellers, a former Auschwitz prisoner, shedding light on the functioning of the Nazi concentration camp system - the camp structure, operational mechanisms, and the conditions in which Jews, political prisoners, and exiles arrested by the Nazi regime during the Second World War were held. Wellers systematically presents the sources of our knowledge about what took place in the death camps and analyzes how the concentration camp system was a direct outcome of Nazi racial ideology, administered down to the smallest details in accordance with its principles - including the classification of prisoners, the profoundly degrading treatment of Jews, the use of prisoners’ bodies as disposable due to their belonging to the “inferior race, ” the selection process in all its details, and more. A significant portion of the publication is devoted to the persecution of the Jews, and in particular, to the extermination system in its various stages - from the early period of the war, when the Nazis primarily used mass shootings, to the construction of industrialized killing centers throughout Germany and the occupied countries, which ultimately led to the murder of one-third of the Jewish people. The work also describes the resistance movement that emerged from the outset of the war and the anti-German propaganda efforts - including a survey of anti-Nazi underground press activity across Europe during the war, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and more. The symbol on the cover - the striped prison uniform with a red triangle and the letter “F” (likely signifying “Français”) - is the emblem of the UNADIF organization itself. It references the uniforms worn by prisoners in the camps, and in particular, represents the French political prisoner imprisoned for resisting the Nazi occupation. The booklet includes prisoner testimonies, explanations of prisoner classifications, descriptions of punishment methods, a detailed outline of the organizational hierarchy within the concentration camp system, and shocking illustrations from the death camps.

Extremely rare. Only the 1968 edition is recorded in the WorldCat global library catalog. The present first edition, published in 1965, is entirely unlisted.

78 [2] pages. Very good condition.