The first report of Nazi crimes in the Lublin (Majdanek) extermination camp - Moscow 1944

The first report of Nazi crimes in the Lublin (Majdanek) extermination camp - Moscow 1944

THE LUBLIN EXTERMINATION CAMP - FOREIGN LANGUAGES, Moscow September 1944. The first publication ever published, revealing the horrors of the Majdanek camp by the Soviet writer and journalist Constantine Simonov who  - served in the Red Army and was one of the camp's liberators. The first and rare edition published only three months after the liberation of the camp.

An initial publication exposing the crimes of the Nazis in the Majdanek extermination camp, accompanied by harsh photographs from the day the Red Army entered the camp and revealed the atrocities. The 13 photographs that appear are considered to be the first photographs in which the world first saw the atrocities of the camp. This work is the first report to have ever published and shown the world the horrors of the camp. Parts of it were published by Shimonov in the Red Army's internal newspaper "Krasnaia zvezda" (The Red Star), over three issues in August 1944, and to the great extent of the exposure and astonishment of the terrible things that were discovered in it, it was even broadcast on the radio in those days on three consecutive evenings.

Shimonov, who was one of the liberators of the camp, did not refrain from writing and documenting everything his eyes saw and immediately began the work of documenting. Unlike other camps where not many survivors were found, in Majdanek the Red Army found thousands of prisoners still alive in the camp, and plenty of evidence of the mass murder that was carried out there. In the introduction he writes: "After my eyes have seen what I have seen I can not be silent, and I can not wait, I want to publish immediately, today, this terrible crime that has been revealed, the things I have heard in recent days, and everything my eyes have seen ... I was exposed to maybe a tenth of the true traces of This horrible crime ... and currently only some of the data and evidence in my possession ... ".

The Nazi concentration and extermination camp Majdanek, near Lublin, Poland, was established on October 1, 1941 by order of Heinrich Himmler. At its peak, it housed 50,000 inmates. Between April 1942 and July 1944, extermination took place in Majdanek in gas chambers and crematoria. The victims were murdered upon arrival at the camp. The death toll is estimated at 200,000. The number of Jews who perished in the camp is estimated at 80,000. Upon arrival at the camp, the transporters were selected for extermination. Right to extermination (first they went through a process of showering, their clothes were disinfected and then put into the gas chambers), and left to life. The camp was disbanded in July 1944 as part of Operation 1005. The camp was partially destroyed by the time the Red Army arrived. Although 1,000 prisoners were taken from him on a death march, the Red Army found thousands of prisoners still remaining in the camp and immediately began collecting countless evidence of the mass murder carried out there, including gas chambers, crematoria and storage sheds and residences. The camp buildings survived the war and unlike other camps, were not destroyed by the Nazis.

24 p. 22 cm. Good condition.