As the Allies closed in on Hitlers Germany the horror and scale of the Final Solution and concentration camps became all too apparent. This "Images of War" book provides the reader a truly disturbing insight into the Nazis brutal regime of wholesale murder, torture and starvation. While the Germans attempted to hide the evidence by demolishing much of the camps infrastructure, the pace of the Soviets advance through Poland meant that the gas chambers at Majdenak near Lublin were captured intact. Auschwitz had received over a million deportees yet when liberated in January 1945 only a few thousand prisoners were there as the vast majority of surviving prisoners had been sent on forced death marches to more westerly camps such as Ravensbrück and Buchenwald. Condition in these camps deteriorated further due to overcrowding and the spread of deadly diseases. In every camp shocking scenes of death and starvation were encountered. When British troops reached Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, there were some 10000 unburied dead in addition to the mass graves, in addition to 60000 starving and sick inmates in utterly appalling conditions.
The words and images in this disturbing book are a timely reminder of mans inhumanity to his fellows and that such behaviour should never be repeated.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Baxter, Ian
Title
Images of War. Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps. Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Details
English text, paperback, 250 bw-photos. 144 pages.
