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Three early publications on the atrocities of the Nazi death camps - Three early publications documenting the atrocities of the Nazi death camps. BUCHENWALD – Poèmes extraits de Je reviens de l'enfer by Léon Leloir, of the White Fathers, Chief Chaplain of the Maquis of the Ardennes. Published by Témoignage Chrétien, France, 1945 – First edition. Leloir was active in the French Resistance against the Nazis, arrested in July 1944, interrogated, and deported to Buchenwald. After his liberation in April 1945, he resumed writing but his life was cut short when he was killed in a car accident in September 1945. The publication features poems he wrote in the camp during the war, published shortly before his death. In his verses, he conveys the agony of captivity, the feeling of being both alive and dead, the suffering of the prisoners, and how the Nazis reduced ordinary people to human skeletons — but also a message of hope and a sense of mission to bear witness to the horrors of war. In French. Die Konzentrationslager – Eine Gewissensfrage für das deutsche Volk und für die Welt (The Concentration Camps – A Question of Conscience for the German People and for the World) by Ph. Küble S. J. Published by Verlag A. Weber, Singen-Hohentwiel. July 15, 1945 – First edition.  An early moral reckoning with the cruelty of the Nazi regime and the struggle of camp inmates against the Nazi monster. The author issues a demand that the German people take responsibility and pay the price for what was perpetrated during the war. In German. Natzwiller-Struthof, published by Memorial de la Déportation au Struthof. An early and detailed documentation of the atrocities committed at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, as well as at Buchenwald, Dachau, Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz, Majdanek, Ravensbrück, and others. Includes harsh photos depicting emaciated prisoners and the corpses of victims as found by Allied forces in the various camps. It offers a detailed overview of life in the death camps. Published on the occasion of the inauguration of a memorial to the victims at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France. Printed on thick paper. France, 1958. In French.