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Auschwitz Concentration Camp: 6,500,000 Dead Accuse! – A detailed report on the crimes of the Nazis in the Auschwitz camp. Vienna, 1946 - Konzentrationslager Auschwitz: 6,500,000 Tote klagen An – ”Auschwitz Concentration Camp: 6,500,000 Dead Accuse!” Early testimonies of Auschwitz camp prisoners. Published by Stern, Vienna, 1946 – First edition. Harsh photos. German. ”Six and a half million people were murdered. Humanity struggles to comprehend this number. It is greater than the current population of Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, or Finland. It far exceeds the number of casualties in many wars. And yet, this number can only be roughly estimated, since the mass transports to Auschwitz were not documented... This booklet is not the work of a professional writer... but rather factual reports by ordinary people who recorded their experiences in Auschwitz exactly as they were, without exaggeration... This is a powerful indictment of all those murderers who, with arrogance and megalomaniacal blindness, dragged all of Europe back into medieval conditions... Those responsible for the Auschwitz murders have branded the German people with a mark of shame that will not be erased for generations...”. An early documentation of the daily horrors and massacres carried out by the Nazis at the Auschwitz death camp, as reported by Auschwitz prisoners themselves—survivors who had the courage, at such an early stage, to share the atrocity with the world. The report is accompanied throughout by 13 harsh photos depicting scenes of emaciated prisoners, corpses of the victims, and torture facilities within the camp. Included is an extensive account of the camp’s extermination facilities and their construction by the Nazis, the operation of 56 furnaces in four crematoria, the step-by-step process undergone by prisoners brought in transports to their deaths, the gas chambers, and the Nazis' use of poison gas for mass murder. Among the testimonies are prisoner accounts titled “24 Hours in Birkenau”—a detailed documentation of the atrocities committed by the Nazis on April 24, 1944; critical information on how the Nazis tattooed prisoners' arms with identification numbers; harrowing testimonies of abuse inflicted on women, children, and infants; the traumatic scenes of families being torn apart during selection; and chilling accounts of medical experiments, especially those conducted on women in Block 10. Also included are reports on resistance activities, and rare testimonies describing the liberation of the camp by the Red Army. The cover features a horrifying illustration of skeletal prisoners engulfed in flames. Rare. Only one copy listed in the WorldCat global library catalog – in a library in Canada. 39, [1] pages. Very good condition.