In hell on earth. Weimar, 1946 - First Edition - signed by the author

In hell on earth. Weimar, 1946 - First Edition - signed by the author

in der Holle auf Erden - 'In Hell on Earth' by a survivor of the Buchenwald and Dachau death camps Udo Dietmar. Weimar 1946 - First Edition - Signed by the author. German.

The breathtaking testimony of a former inmate in the Buchenwald and Dachau death camps. In the book, the author tells his personal story, beginning with being taken from his parents' house by SS soldiers, and being brought to the camps while revealing shocking details about the daily occurrence in the death camps. The author also reveals unknown details about the Auschwitz camp that were obtained from his friends who survived and were partners with him in testifying to the writing of the book. In the introduction to the book, the author writes: 'Dachau, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Auschwitz, Lublin, Bergen-Belsen ... Ravensburg ... names with blood ... innocent, full of cowardly and cruel murder of countless people just because they were not National Socialists ...These names embody the grave accusation in history against a people ... there are no words that can express the immense suffering of the victims ... as one of the surviving witnesses I want to find out the truth about what happened in those camps in front of my eyes and on my body for the world to know the true face of Nazism, to open the eyes of those who still have a slight doubt about the shocking radio reports about what happened there ... The truth is hard and hurtful, but it has to heal those who seek the truth ... The book was written in memory of the 51,000 friends who stayed with me in Buchenwald, And to the tens of thousands killed in Dachau, with them i went shoulder to shoulder, year after year, on the path of horror that seemed endless ... The cruelty I am about to describe in my book is inconceivable, so human beings find it difficult to accept these reports as reality ... the benefit from the book will be if it is distributed in all the territories of free Germany, and from there all over the whole world ... '.

The book, which is one of the earliest detailed testimonies published about the death camps, and accompanied by very difficult descriptions, the author details in detail all the experiences in the camps, on a daily basis, about severe torture he experienced on his body, good friends killed a few meters next to him, the crematoria, The executions that took place before his eyes every day, the cruel way the camp was run by SS commanders, Nazi soldiers celebrating their birthdays alongside murdered people who had just died, the severe daily hunger, and more, exposing many unknown details in those days  to the wider world.

Before us the first edition of the book, which has been distributed over the years in countless editions and translated into many languages, as mentioned, signed by the author. Extremely rare. The author devoted the proceeds of the book to helping camp survivors.

149 pages, few stains on cover. Good condition.