The German Death Factory in Lublin - 1945

The German Death Factory in Lublin - 1945

Niemiecka fabryka śmierci w Lublinie - German Death Factory in Lublin - Testimony by Red Army journalist Eugene Krieger on the liberation of the Nazi death camp from Majdanek by the Red Army, 1945.

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 author, Eugeniusz (Yevgeny) Krieger, was a special correspondent of Izvestia and was among the first Russian forces to liberate the camp on July 22, 1944. Eugenius was a first-hand witness to the atrocities committed by the Nazis and the cruel and inhumane conditions in which the prisoners lived.

The book includes a short excerpt from the Polish-Soviet Commission regarding the finds in the Majdanek camp at the time of its liberation. and a statement on the conduct of the camp by Hilmer Mussar, a German lieutenant general. Accompanied by 8 photographs of the camp as found by the liberating forces - the crematorium, human remains and shoes of the victims, and more.

The camp was partially destroyed by the time the Red Army arrived. Although 1,000 prisoners were taken from it 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. Although the Nazis evacuated the camp, Soviet progress was so rapid that unlike many other camps, the SS failed to destroy the evidence for their crimes. To this day Majdanek remains the camp with the most important testimony to the horrors of the Nazi extermination camps.

41 [7] p. 15 cm. Good condition.