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Murder Made in Germany - early documentation of the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany during the first months of Hitler’s rise to power. New York and London - 1934 - first English edition - Murder Made in Germany: A True Story of Present-Day Germany - “Murder Made in Germany: A True Story of Present-Day Germany”, by Heinz Liepmann, published by Harper & Brothers, translated by Emile Burns. New York and London, 1934 - first English edition. A chilling documentation of dozens of shocking cases of the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany during the initial stage of Hitler’s rise to power, by a journalist who witnessed the events firsthand. Rare. Liepmann was a German-Jewish writer and journalist who fled Germany after the Nazis rose to power in 1933. The book documents in countless details antisemitic events that the author personally witnessed, as he writes in the introduction: “There is not a single word that was not spoken in my presence; there is not a single person whom I did not know personally; there is not a single event that I did not see with my own eyes or that was not observed and described to me by a friend whom I have known for years and whose reliability I can attest to. I answer with my honor, my livelihood, and my life that all the events in this book did indeed occur...”, and he adds: “I cannot sleep at night when I think of the Jews. Every night I hear great noises in people’s throats, screaming and choking. I see eyes slowly dimming. I see hands crushed into a bloody pulp, a back whose skin is stretched like a balloon. I see bleeding old men, shattered legs and bodies - bodies...”. In his book, he documents dozens of cases of the exclusion of Jews in Nazi Germany during the first months of Adolf Hitler’s seizure of power: the torture of Jews in the streets by SA units; the abuse of Jews in Gestapo detention facilities, where they were forced to shout each day “I am a Jewish pig, ” along with the accusation for which they had been arrested, such as “I defiled an Aryan, ” and the like; the exclusion of Jews from theaters in Germany; spontaneous abuse of Jews found on German leisure ships; hate letters and threats placed in the mailboxes of Jews by their Nazi persecutors, such as: “To the Jewish pig... if within a week, you filthy pig, you do not go to your homeland Palestine, we will hang your three bastards from a tree... and you will have to eat all your cigars until you die like a dog!...”; the furious reactions against Jews in the streets of Germany when Joseph Goebbels announced a boycott against the Jews on the radio; how SA soldiers marched back and forth in the streets shouting “Germans! Do not buy from Jews! The Jews are your misfortune!”; documentation of brutal arrests carried out by the Gestapo in workplaces and in Jewish homes; shocking accounts of the persecution of Jews following the Reichstag fire; the confiscation of the Jewish press; the spreading of the libel that Jews were carriers of disease; and more.  This is one of the early books published in the West that exposed readers in England and the United States to the new reality of the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. Heinz Liepmann [1905–1966], a German-Jewish writer and journalist. He was born in Osnabrück, Germany, and at a young age had already published novels and travel books. His breakthrough came in 1933 with various publications that dealt openly with the political and social climate in Germany following Hitler’s rise to power. His books were quickly banned in Nazi Germany, and Liepmann was forced to flee the country. He subsequently lived in exile - first in Western Europe and later in the United States. During the 1930s and 1940s, he published books and journalistic works in English and German, at times under a pseudonym, dealing with Nazi Germany, refugees, and the experience of exile. After World War II, he continued to work as a writer and journalist. VII, [2] 258 pages. Light stains on the cover. Very good condition.