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LOT 58:
The liberation of the Auschwitz camp - a rare photo album
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The liberation of the Auschwitz camp - a rare photo album
Photographs - Documents - "Extraordinary documentation of the commission of inquiry into the atrocities of the Nazi invaders and their accomplices, and the results of the damage caused to the prisoners." A rare photo album documenting the sights of the Auschwitz death camp, its various wings, and the harsh scenes of the dead, alongside surviving prisoners, as revealed to the Russian soldiers who liberated the camp on January 27, 1945. Numbered album: 306. Leipzig, [1945]. Russian.
An album with 38 large photographs over an entire page, They are all described. At the beginning of the album is a large panoramic photograph of Auschwitz camp barracks, Continued with photographs of the electric fence that surrounded the camp, several photographs of inmates flocking to the camp fence on the day of liberation - among them surviving children, Old women as found were lying with zero force on the wooden bunks, The piles of the camp inmates' suitcases, piles of prayer shawls, clothes, hair, glasses, cutlery, etc. that belonged to the inmates and remained in the camp. As well as piles of corpses and body parts. The photos at the end of the album show women crying in the camp.
Official photographers from the Soviet army and the regime's news agencies arrived in Auschwitz to document the difficult scenes. On the day of the liberation itself there were no photographers in the camp, and the captured photos depict the condition of the camp a few days later. The Soviets disseminated the images not only to the internal media but also to the international media, with the aim of strengthening the legitimacy of the regime as their relations with the west began to deteriorate. One of the ways of distributing the documentation of the atrocities was in an album of this type before us, which was distributed at an early stage very close to release in a limited number of copies, and is extremely rare.
Album: 25x17 cm. Very good condition.
